Suchit Sahni: 2017

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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Tuesday, December 19, 2017

Unconceptual - Group show with Gallerie Nvya from December 2017 to April 2018 @ IGI Airport, New Delhi

Sunday, November 26, 2017

The Contemporary Walk, Group show with Gallery Ragini @ Vivanta by Taj Ambassador, New Delhi on 29th Nov 2017

Group Exhibition curated by Swapnil Khullar @ The Oberoi, Gurgoan on 26th November 2017

Saturday, November 25, 2017

Indian Art Festival, with Gallery Splash, @Booth No. 39 Tyagaraj Stadium, New Delhi. November 23 -26, 2017

Thursday, November 16, 2017

Riddle Of Colours - Group show with Krisala Arts from 17th to 27th November 2017 @ Taj Westend, Bengaluru

Monday, September 11, 2017

Wednesday, August 23, 2017

Monsoon Show (Group Show) with Gallery Nvya at Pullmon Hotel from 27th August to 27th October 2017

Wednesday, May 3, 2017

Soir D'ete - Group show curated by Niten Mehta @ Taj Palace Hotel, New Delhi on 6th May 2017

Tuesday, April 25, 2017

" Within Reach - VIII " Group show with Gallerie NVYA from 29th April to 30th June 2017

Sunday, February 5, 2017

Special Display @ Kala Ghoda Art Festival with Welspun India from 4th to 12th Feb 2017 @Kala Ghoda Street, Mumbai

Tuesday, January 31, 2017

India Art Fair 2017, Booth No. D-9 with Gallery Ragini @ NSIC Ground Okhla from 2nd to 5th Feb 2017

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