Suchit Sahni: March 2010

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

I need to shock him to wake him up....

The pleasure he is seeking is not there in his dreams, but, here with me for which he needs to awake...I cant see him suffer anymore. It is going to hurt me more than him, but, I need to shock him to wake him up....

Can't sit on the same chair....

The chair is one and we are two. When i sat, i ruled and suffered. Now you sit and i will go forever, as we both can't sit on the same chair.......

My Preference is Peace....

Running after them, I lost my peace. But now, I don't value them much, as I have realized, that they are just conveniences, and my preference is peace....

I am tired of running

I am tired of running. Not because I don’t have the strength. What is tiring me down is my constant desire to win, to grow and to remain on the top ….Why cant I just run for the sake of running….

Sunday, March 7, 2010

The Chosen One...

I didn't do anything, I didn't have anything, Yet, he choose me...Why? Because he chooses for no reason.His wish is much beyond the good & bad, the capable & incapable....I thank him for that. He is not like us, I thank him for letting me be his chosen one....

If he wakes up I will die……………………

I am the negative and I have ruled here for so long but even then I am afraid that some day he will wake up….that will be my last day. Though I am strong and will put him to slumber again by all means….but what if he seeks help from an enlightened …..i am just a shadow and can never face the light…so let him sleep………….

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Registration, interpretation and chronicling are the modes in which Suchit Sahni(Self Taught Artist) interprets the city of Delhi as he understands it. Suchit considers himself as a stealer of city images and for him, an artist keeps plundering the vast treasure troves of images both hidden and apparent in a city’s body. And also he believes that the artist behaves like a contemporary Robin Hood, who gives the rich images back to the society with a deserving dividend. True to his philosophy, Suchit moves around the city of Delhi (and also many other cities that according to him impart the ‘feel’ of an India in transition) and from his moving car, he captures images from those places which had made an impression on his mind during his growing up years. These photographs that Suchit presents in this show both as an installation and a video projection, supply the artist with the primary sketches.

It is interesting to see how Suchit considers these photographs as a ‘starting point’. In artistic terms, he calls them ‘drawings’. Every time an artist approaches his canvas he has a set of mental or actual drawings with him; these doodles or lines provide them with the basic blue print for further alterations and manipulations on the real canvas. Even a random comparison between the photographs that function as Suchit’s drawings with the final works in the display would reveal that in none of these paintings the artist transfer the same image as seen in the photographs. Through his double manipulation on the drawings he yields not only a new image but also a new reality, which is apparently experiential and for the viewer, true reminders of their own lived/living experiences now mediated through colors, forms and rhythmic movements.

Suchit, in his works, invests his energies in two ways; one, he likes to live the city nostalgically and see how the city changes before his eyes even when some parts of it resist the change, leaving certain reminders of the past intact for the people to witness. Two, Suchit, as an artist, goes beyond the urges to realize the apparent instead, he wants to transcend it through imparting an intimate sense of abstraction. While the images of a tonga (horse driven carriage), scooter, old vans and cars, forts and so on stand evidence to the former stance of the artist, the distance of perception that he demands from the viewer exemplifies the abstract values that he invests in the images. As the viewer goes closer to the paintings, the images dissipate to reveal a riot of colors and forms. Suchit, within his paintings re-invents the same physical aspects of understanding a city through body adjustments within the actual urban sites.

JohnyML

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