Fenendra Nath Chaturvedi and a transit in Banaras

The change is unavoidable, and not more often, not unexpected and unrelated. This is the only thing that can challenge the status quo, and enable changes. Title in its latest exhibition TransparencyFenendra Nath Chaturvedi, 44, focuses on this idea of ​​change and celebrates it through 59 pieces of artifacts made carefully.

“For the last 25 years, my art has detected the subjects of self, duality and change,” they say. “As an artist, I have always been designed for a blurred line between human and non-human, real and untrue, natural and artificial. These stresses appear in my human-like figures-stuck between living species, gender, era and emotions.”

With his childhood and early years spent in Banaras, Chaturvedi’s work is inspired by the old city temples in the body. In a place that has a place of life and death, in everyday moments of rituals, symbols and myths, has shaped its artistic effect.

“Varanasi is not present on a map; it breathes, revives, and transkand. It is a living contradiction – timeless and contemporary, holy and non -niji and rigid. mantraThe smoke overhead was burnt as the funeral. All of them rejected cosmic and spiritual, and my early exposure taught me to see beyond the surface of things, look at beauty in decay and imagine the story in silence. This intuition still indicates how I create creative landscapes and characters. ,

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Spell

Through paper, wood, stainless steel, fiberglass and large life canvas, Transparency It shows how we handle internal changes in a world that always changes. It is like a picture diary that shows firmness, self-confidence and personal development.

Chaturvedi’s functions are a stand-out symbol butterfly, a omnipresent element that serves as a signator and a ten-balanced witness of change. It speaks a lot about many topics that like to work with the visual artist: fleeting, renovation, beauty born from struggle, and delicate differences between vulgarity and power.

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“In many cultures, butterflies are seen as souls, messengers, or metonic symbols for transit. For me, they have become a metaphor for human condition. When I portray butterflies in stainless steel sculptures, [against] Artificiality of the industrial world. And in my paper works, they appear in vague situations, which serve as a witness to change. ,

Transparency In Bikner House

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No convulsive inspiration

At a time when the world of art is subject to a lot of investigation, because Anita Dubey-Azir-Aziz controversy involving the use of a credits or after consent–The exhibition of the Chaturvedi-Born in Prague’s exhibition Prague, closely reminds me of the German Franz Kafka’s seminal Novella. “If anything is common in my work with Kafka’s ideas, it is coincidentally, not on the purpose,” he shares. “My art comes from a completely different background, which lies in my own life story. Therefore, while Kafka wrestling with isolation, non -equality and psychological changes in the context of Europe, I engage in similar fines through Banaras’ lens and mythological, rituals and everyday life in India.”

In Bikner House

Metaphor

TransparencyCuisted by Sanya Malik, Aaj Tak is in Bikenar House and till May 30 in Black Cube Gallery in Hauz Khas.

The independent writer is located in Delhi.