Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 29: Jammu’s well known artist Suman Gupta’s month long solo show opened at Gallery Nvya in New Delhi, today.
Curated by Tripat K Kalra, Director Gallery Nvya, the show titled ‘Return of the Hangul’, was inaugurated by Parvez Dewan, Secretary Ministry of Tourism, Govt. of India and country’s senior artists Krishan Khanna and Neeraj Goswami.
Suman Gupta paints landscapes, but for him the hills, rivers and the forests are not merely physical spaces to be consumed for their beauty but become sites for ideological interrogation of socio-political concerns in a seamless, non-intrusive fashion. The landscapes are locales where leitmotifs such as hope for peace, utopian dreamscapes, loss of innocence, and millenarianism; as the vertical intrusion of the sublime in the horizontal flux of cyclical time, play out.
This is for the time that Suman Gupta has painted all the three regions of Jammu and Kashmir but the focal point of the show has been the post insurgency time in the valley which has very badly affected the coming generation and the kind of uncertainty still prevailing, caught the intention as well as the attention of the artist.
Recipient of the prestigious ‘Lorenzo IL Magnifico’ for his “Untitled” work at Florence Biennial, Italy and National award by Lalit Kala academy, New Delhi he was Invited to show his work at the India special exhibition at 5th ‘Beijing International Art Biennale’ in China in the year 2012.
The show which will remain open till April 27, 2013 has twenty three works including acrylics and dry brush both on canvas and paper. Large number of Delhi’s well known artists, intellectuals, art collectors and art lovers were present on the occasion.
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