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The Guild Art Gallery is delighted to present Visual Allegories: Poetics of Destabilization solo exhibition of Dilip Ranade’s suite of drawings from 1976- 2016, at The Guild Alibaug.

For the last thirty five years drawing has been an important means of expression in Dilip Ranade’s practice besides painting and sculpture. Initially it was to try out compositional possibilities for a painting and also to explore potent images and forms.  However since 1976 drawing has become an autonomous form of expression for him.

“The intention behind constantly pursuing this medium is to capture and respond to subtle oscillations of feelings and fleeting experiences of the world around, thus widening the scope of imagery as well as boundaries of expression. Ranade relies on idiosyncrasies more than on any conventional pictorial devices and themes.

“In his earlier works influence of Surrealist artist like Max Ernst and Rene Magritte can be seen. Besides this, the experimental theatre in Mumbai of the 70’s, the “Theatre of the Absurd”, and enigmatic aspects of works of existentialist authors like Franz Kafka and Albert Camus and Marathi authors like C.T. Khanolkar and G. A. Kulkarni complimented his art practice.  His interest in theatre, cinema and literature has also helped to feed his very individual imagery…”

“One encounters undercurrent of eerie and surreal atmosphere in his works or at times, a satirical twist to a simple everyday incident. As the objects are set into different contextual environment they lose their every-day significance and attain different connotations. Although the images are explicit, the content is ambiguous and abstract.”  - Madhav Imaratey

Born in Mumbai, Ranade received his Diploma in Drawing and Painting from Sir J. J. School of Art, Mumbai in 1971 and studied Museology on an Indo-US sub-commission grant in 1984.

Ranade has had solo shows with Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai in 1979, 1981, 1989, 1996, 1999, 2006 and 2007.  “Shifting the Logic – Drawings show (1977-2007)” at   Pundole   Art Gallery, Mumbai; Threshold Art Gallery, New Delhi and Galerie88, Kolkata. Cymroza  Art Gallery, Mumbai, 1999 and Total Museum, Seoul 2003.    

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