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NEW DELHI 09
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1-2 lakh? Apparently quite a lot, from
p SUDIPTA DAS
(Latitude 28, Delhi)
p SHALINA S. VICHITRA
(Gallery Art Motif, Delhi)
p YASHWANT DESHMUKH The artist’s work is about decoding the characteris- p GOURISHANKAR SONI
(Art & Soul gallery, Mumbai) tics of living situations. “Personal associations and (CIMA, Kolkata)
identities become part of a larger narrative about the
Born in Akola, Vidarbha, Deshmukh is a contempo- conflict and contradictions of urban living,” says Born in Jaipur in 1980, Soni works with a range of
rary conceptual artist. In a span of 30 years, he has Mala Aneja of Gallery Art Motif. Vichitra draws media, but the heritage of Rajasthan informs the
created works that are a cross between figuration imagery from aerial mapping, the urban sprawl, con- core of his sensibility. “The influence of the minia-
and symbolic abstraction. He chooses to accentuate structed spaces, maps and more. “She likes to con- ture tradition is palpable in his style,” says Rakhi
the lyrical and meditative elements of an object, struct-deconstruct, locate-dislocate, and peel layers Sarkar, director of the gallery, “though he combines
often gravitating towards the line and simple col- in her work,” adds Aneja. ‘A Space To Which We it with a distinctly contemporary approach.” Unti-
ours. Untitled, mixed media on canvas (2011) Belong’, high fire glaze on stoneware and porcelain tled, acrylic on canvas (2018)
t HARENDRA KUSHWAHA
(CIMA, Kolkata)
t SALAMAT HUSAIN
(Nine Fish Art Gallery, Mumbai)