The Loft has organised an exhibition ‘Pixel Power’ featuring new works of Chitra Ganesh, Tushar Joag, Dhruvi Acharya and Sarnath Banerjee till August 15.
To mark its first anniversary, The Loft has organised an exhibition ‘Pixel Power’ featuring new works of Chitra Ganesh, Tushar Joag, Dhruvi Acharya and Sarnath Banerjee till August 15.
The exhibition showcases the unique perspective of the curators on trends in Contemporary Indian Art, therefore Pixel Power, curated by well known art critic Georgina Maddox and presented by Anupa Mehta, art consultant, writer and curator herself.
“The idea of pixel power has sprung from the realm of pop culture. The offset print that uses pixels to print an image is one of the key inventions that led to the spread of popular culture. Each artist in this show has a strong reference to popular culture and hence the name. Each of them have painted, drawn and sketched on paper and canvas which are known as fine art mediums and yet their art refers to popular culture. This is what Pixel Power attempts to do,” explains Maddox on how she chose the title Pixel Power.
At some point or the other, everyone of us has been influenced by the art of comic strips, that has moved on from print to movie to even ‘real life’ heroes, so here these artists will find a connect with the audience because they have used the format of the cartoon strip to unpack the polemics of gender and structures of social hierarchy.
New Delhi based artist Sarnath Banerjee, author of graphic novels like Corridor and the Barn Owl’s Wondrous Capers, is a chronicler of the mundane life. “My work is a visual representation of a lost file that has been unearthed during a routine cleanup of the Lalbazaar Archive. Lalbazaar is a bit like the London Met head office, the police headquarter of Bengal, and during the Raj and till several years afterwards it was considered to have the best detective department in the Commonwealth, second to only Scotland Yard.
Maryland University MFA student Dhruvi Acharya’s works are born out of personal experiences and almost always uses the art of the comic strip to execute her tales.
New York born Chitra Ganesh has derived her images from the Amar Chitra Katha comics, even while questioning the practice of portraying powerful women in negative roles.
Mumbai based multi media artist Tushar Joag questions the supremacy of the American superpower and actually downplays the comic book characters of the American Superman and other heroes.
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