Linking the gap

Bringing the two Indias together and celebrating right after and a tumultuous relationship between the two is Kolkata-Based Cima Gallery's exhibit Image Mahaan: India Meets Bharat In its first outing at the India Art Summit, The gallery has brought in a bunch of art pieces which harmoniously combine indigenous practices with the favored visual language of the subcontinent. Thereby, The story of an urban woman's pain and agony painted by veteran artist Arpita Singh is encased in a frame which again has a tale of a woman but using top selling folk idiom of Patachitra, A way of life of West Bengal. Swarna Chitrakar paints the very existence story How To Write A Million Dollar Unique Selling Proposition (usp), Overwhelm Your Prospect With Reasons To Buy, Market That Fly Catcher Message With A Coordinated Fury, And Reduce The Explanation Of Your Product And Yourself To A One Minute Elevator Speech. How To Write A Million Dollar Usp of a woman right from the time when she is born. Comes about when the social media marketing company two Indias meet is what we are dealing with here. I feel of late a lot of recent artists have been going into the heart of India, Learning the conventional skills and including them in their art practice, Says Rakhi Sarkar of CIMA Gallery who has curated the show. Good example is Meera Devidayal's mixed media work on recycled metal sheets. Devidayal's work deals with marginalised chapters of the society, Like the slum dwellers who are as much a a a section of the big city as any other inhabitant. The scenes designed by dark underbelly of Mumbai zardozi workshop, A cramped dingy room are digitally modelled on the sheets which too have been procured from the slums. The overwhelming presence of advertisements forms the intended theme of Kolkata-Based custom Sumitro Basak, Who for long has been captivated by the popular visual culture and its impact on a cityscape and its residents. Basak in Sonar Bangla creates a spoof on a popular hosiery brand of Kolkata whose proprietor was allegedly active in the murder of a young boy for marrying his daughter. The company indulged in a hostile campaign and entire city was covered with its hoardings and banners. It brought to mind the old times when Maharajas would paint the entire city pink or white. Thus, Here I look at how the identity of the city is troubled by the market forces, Country and by its people, Expresses Basak. His brightly painted work comprising a cluster of paintings has the word omnipresent in urban situations like rail tracks running across the canvas, Shirts left to dry on a sweatersline, Man made faeces, And so. Its curator, In a bid to help viewers understand where it is all as a result of, Has included as well works by Abanindranath Tagore, Mustik (Watercolour in some recoverable format) And as a consequence Jamini Roy. Tagore arrived at a language by bringing in aspects of the classical and the popular, Says Sarkar who 's also got works of masters like Jogen Chowdhury, Ganesh Pyne as well as, Jyoti Bhatt. Academically unaccustomed but highly perceptive artists like Shakila and Mayank Kumar Shyam, Son lately Gond artist Jangarh Singh Shyam, Also boast in the show. While Shakila in her unique appropriate verbal of collages does a take on Naxalism, Mayank, In the original Gond style, Creates a city without requiring any life barring a pair of birds. Videos of an ad advertising and marketing campaign, Installations and sculptures are also found in the show