_Quarantine Diary -Threat†Water Colour on Paper 10 X 14 inches (35 X25 cms) 2020
Threshold Art Gallery opens with Indrapratim Roy’s solo exhibition Soliloquy after the summer break. The exhibition will run from August 19 to September 03, 2022 at the gallery. The exhibition is a manifestation of the artist's inner dialogues during the lockdown phase in watercolours and etchings. The unprecedented hardship of people around him during the lockdown, the helplessness, the surfeit of bad news coming from all sides compared to his relatively privileged existence with a roof above his head and food on his plate. As such all 52 paintings are, in some sense, soliloquies of its own.
According to the artist, “The lockdown initially seemed like a temporary short-term measure but as the days into weeks, weeks into months, several new words quickly entered into our ever-expanding vocabulary, a realisation dawned that perhaps some things are going to change for good. There are so many imponderables but one thing is certain that there is no certainty worth talking about! It perhaps allows for a pause, a dot in time to reflect and even a possibility to hit the reset button - nobody knows. Things presumed to be normal are liable to change with a very short notice in the new normal. The images in this set chose to come tumbling out at that moment, almost on their own and that is all there is!”
He further added, “With the luxury of time at my disposal - I wondered, shuddered, questioned and pondered. It is a continuous process. I can’t paint ideas but have to look for what the Californian painter Wayne Thiebaud called ‘what is paintable’.”
According to the artist, “The lockdown initially seemed like a temporary short-term measure but as the days into weeks, weeks into months, several new words quickly entered into our ever-expanding vocabulary, a realisation dawned that perhaps some things are going to change for good. There are so many imponderables but one thing is certain that there is no certainty worth talking about! It perhaps allows for a pause, a dot in time to reflect and even a possibility to hit the reset button - nobody knows. Things presumed to be normal are liable to change with a very short notice in the new normal. The images in this set chose to come tumbling out at that moment, almost on their own and that is all there is!”
He further added, “With the luxury of time at my disposal - I wondered, shuddered, questioned and pondered. It is a continuous process. I can’t paint ideas but have to look for what the Californian painter Wayne Thiebaud called ‘what is paintable’.”
_Quarantine Diary-Imaginary Homeland_ Water Colour on Paper 11 X 15 inches (28 X 38 cms) 2020
The Quarantine Diaries began as a journal that the artist wanted to keep on a daily basis. It morphed into another set after a couple of months called Quarantine Drawings. The Ordinary Lies, for instance, was triggered by the silence that enveloped the markers of our development paradigm – construction. The frenzy of the relentless occupation of the greens around us came to a grinding halt mid motion. Minus all the bee-hive activity of humdrum construction the stentorian skeleton became a monument to absurdity. All along we were being fed a steady diet of misinformation masquerading as news, a narrative designed to distract our already shrinking capacity to focus on the significant, on things of import. It seems a new issue-a-day is invented to keep us from focusing on the essentials. The deluge of trivia that occupies the mind space is really astounding!
About the artist:
Indrapramit Roy studied printmaking (BFA) at the Visva-Bharati University of Santiniketan (1982-87) and painting (MFA, 1987-89) at the Faculty of Fine Arts of M.S. University of Baroda, India. Subsequently he was awarded Inlaks Scholarship to study MA Painting (1990- 92) at the Royal College of Art, London, which included a term at Cite des Arts, Paris. He also spent a term in Berlin on an Erasmus Exchange Scholarship. Indrapramit has shown widely in Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Bangalore, Ahmedabad, Baroda and Chennai in group and solo shows.
He has had 16 solo shows, over 90 Group shows and several art camps and workshops to his credit. From amongst the 16 solo shows held so far the last few were, ‘Mezzaterra’, at Threshold gallery in New Delhi in March 2016, Galerie-88, Kolkata in November-December 2012 and 2015, Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai in February 2008, The Anant Art Gallery, New Delhi in 2006 and 2009, Aicon gallery - USA in May 2007, He has taken part in Group shows in New York, London, Melbourne and Yangon and has represented India in Asian Art Exhibition in Macao and the Cairo Biennale, Cairo. In 2013 completed a 12 x 26 feet mural for Terminal-2 of the new Mumbai International Airport (now rechristened as- Jai Ho Museum). Honours and fellowships include Kanoria Centre Fellowship (1989-90), Inlaks Scholarship (1990-92), Govt. of India-Junior Research Fellowship (1993-95), the Fulbright fellowship, USA (2004-5) and more recently Artist-in-Residence at The Siena Art Institute (March 2013). Indrapramit’s other interests include stage design, writing and illustration.
As an illustrator he has worked with Orion publication, London, Iktara publication, Bhopal and Tara publication, Chennai. There are seven books published by Tara. Among them the Re-telling’s of four Greek Tragedies with his illustrations were produced by Tara and published by J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. Two of his illustrated books won Museum publishing award in the US and Alcuin Children’s book award from Canada. Indrapramit has been teaching painting at his alma mater Faculty of Fine Arts, MSU of Baroda since 1995.
August 19 to September 03, 2022
Monday to Saturday from 11am to 7pm (Sunday by appointment)
Gallery Threshold, Sarvodaya Enclave, New Delhi
Date 23-08-2022
About the artist:
Indrapramit Roy studied printmaking (BFA) at the Visva-Bharati University of Santiniketan (1982-87) and painting (MFA, 1987-89) at the Faculty of Fine Arts of M.S. University of Baroda, India. Subsequently he was awarded Inlaks Scholarship to study MA Painting (1990- 92) at the Royal College of Art, London, which included a term at Cite des Arts, Paris. He also spent a term in Berlin on an Erasmus Exchange Scholarship. Indrapramit has shown widely in Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Bangalore, Ahmedabad, Baroda and Chennai in group and solo shows.
He has had 16 solo shows, over 90 Group shows and several art camps and workshops to his credit. From amongst the 16 solo shows held so far the last few were, ‘Mezzaterra’, at Threshold gallery in New Delhi in March 2016, Galerie-88, Kolkata in November-December 2012 and 2015, Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai in February 2008, The Anant Art Gallery, New Delhi in 2006 and 2009, Aicon gallery - USA in May 2007, He has taken part in Group shows in New York, London, Melbourne and Yangon and has represented India in Asian Art Exhibition in Macao and the Cairo Biennale, Cairo. In 2013 completed a 12 x 26 feet mural for Terminal-2 of the new Mumbai International Airport (now rechristened as- Jai Ho Museum). Honours and fellowships include Kanoria Centre Fellowship (1989-90), Inlaks Scholarship (1990-92), Govt. of India-Junior Research Fellowship (1993-95), the Fulbright fellowship, USA (2004-5) and more recently Artist-in-Residence at The Siena Art Institute (March 2013). Indrapramit’s other interests include stage design, writing and illustration.
As an illustrator he has worked with Orion publication, London, Iktara publication, Bhopal and Tara publication, Chennai. There are seven books published by Tara. Among them the Re-telling’s of four Greek Tragedies with his illustrations were produced by Tara and published by J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. Two of his illustrated books won Museum publishing award in the US and Alcuin Children’s book award from Canada. Indrapramit has been teaching painting at his alma mater Faculty of Fine Arts, MSU of Baroda since 1995.
August 19 to September 03, 2022
Monday to Saturday from 11am to 7pm (Sunday by appointment)
Gallery Threshold, Sarvodaya Enclave, New Delhi
Date 23-08-2022
_Quarantine Diary- Do Not Get Deceived by Normalcy†Water Colour on Paper 11 X 15 inches (28 X 38 cms) 2020