Suchit Sahni: 2015

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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Thursday, October 1, 2015

NEONSCAPES by Suchit Sahni @ Magnolias, Gurgoan from 1st to 30th Oct 2015

Thursday, July 9, 2015

Better Interiors - July 2015 (Courtesy - S & G Arts)

Tuesday, July 7, 2015

Work in " Kiran Nadar Museum of Art " Private Collection

Friday, June 19, 2015

'Quietude' Group Show with Art Chill Gallery from 20th - 30th June 2015 @Juneja Art Gallery, 7 Lakshmi Complex, M I Road, Jaipur.

Friday, April 3, 2015

‘One cake and ten candles’ Group Show with Gallery Ragini @ Galerie Romain Rolland, Alliance Francaise, 72, Lodhi Estate from 10th to 12th April 2015

Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Ephemeral Timeless group show with Gallerie Nvya from 1st March to 31st May 2015 @ Reserve Lounge, Terminal 1-D, IGI Airport, New Delhi

Thursday, February 26, 2015

Mega Annual Exhibition - Group Show with Artchill @ Juneja Art Gallery, Jaipur from 15th Feb to 10th March 2015

Thursday, February 12, 2015

"Charity Auction" with Plan India @ JW Marriott, Pune on 15th Feb, 2015 (Lot No. 40)

Monday, February 2, 2015

"NEONSCAPES" display with Apparao Galleries @ The Lodhi Hotel, Lodhi Road, New Delhi, 2nd Feb to 28th March 2015

Monday, January 26, 2015

India Art Fair 2015, Booth No. F-5 (Gallery Ragini) NSIC Ground Okhla from 29th Jan to 1st Feb 2015

Collectors Corner 2015 -Group Show with TAD Arts @Visual Art Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi from 30 January to 2 February 2015

Expressions - Group show with Krisala Arts @ ITC Windsor, Bangalore, from 31st Jan - 8th Feb 2015

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