The Untamed Faces has been a conduit, connected with multiple interpretations.-a metaphor, chosen to consciously assign meanings, tones and characters to my perspective of routine interactions.
'The Swirl of Freestyle'
An intrinsic urge to find the aesthetics in the mundane became a significant extension of the idea, further exploring the possibilities in a new space and a set of visuals transforming into the artwork such as ‘The Captain’, ‘The Banjaran’ etc.
'The Captain'
This engagement with my thought was an attempt at understanding attitudes, personalities and characters of the numerous faces I came across in the various walks of life. A visual representation of people's backgrounds, cultures, professions and how they relate to themselves in an interaction.
The rush of interrogating these aesthetic and cultural connotations, lead me to observe, collect, respond and capture ideological interpretations of our modern society.
The visuals are open to the viewers’ own contextualization since every individual views objects and characters differently. Thus one sees a subtle idiosyncrasy, allowing more cross-pollination of metaphors that are layered with multiple contexts.
'The Disco Ball'
The eventual artwork reflects a mix of seriousness, coolness, humour, sophistication, sex appeal and a hint of irony.
Though the visual language is constrained, it maintains several ideologies, taking inspiration from numerous social, cultural and economic connotations, often displayed through class, culture, profession and personal character. The final execution is edgy, sleek and chic.
'The Ruffian'
'The Rebel'
In many ways, this exhibit has been influenced by a number of factors such as my eye towards progressive contemporary art and design as well as fashion illustration in general. In other ways, it’s a hybridization of contemporary arts.
I would like to categorize this style of my artwork under ‘The Progressive Merger’
I feel my personal style has a lot to do with mixed media, urban lifestyle, grunge photography, popular culture and urban contemporary while my medium extends from paper napkin illustrations to digital print canvases.
'The Kid'
Rather than ideas specifically for paintings, an occurrence of an idea is usually as a note of my own response to mundane observations or simple pencil doodles, later defining how it's actually going to make that mental imagery into a painting. While these are the primary mediums which I have been usig for my narrative arts I now want to get back to exploring ideas in acrylics.
The idea (or call it drama), of things sometimes emerging out in punchy colours, (sometimes even shocking), then suddenly calm and toned down, then mushrooming in an abstract way with a faint bit of beautiful decay, fascinates me, and it’s become a dominating theme in my work over the time.
In my artwork I usually enjoy the ‘process of developing it’ more than the final result because I feel it’s more interesting to question your own thoughts, their significance and possible meanings and not view it as just an exhibited piece. That further gets me to try newer approaches at play (I refuse to call it work!)
The ‘Untamed Faces' contains pieces of work that collectively aim to offer an arresting visual vocabulary that is progressive in its content. The use of simple yet striking graphic elements with a strong colour palette results in a very contemporary appeal.
'The Joker Faced'
The exhibit was on display from the 1st – 30th Nov at TLR, Hauz Khas Village, New Delhi, India.
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Special thanks to Gautam, Meghna, Harsh, Stefan, Tony and Nikhil for their great support.
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