Suchit Sahni: About my Work

About my Work

My recent interview with Niten Mehta of TAD Arts..

FAQ's

# What is your current work about?

My work mostly revolves around my memories and my surroundings. I have always been influenced with what I see on a day to day basis and that forms the main content of my work.

# What are your preoccupations about?

Mostly related to human interaction with their surroundings and the relationship of humans with the world around and vice versa .

# What are you trying to communicate with the visual language you are using?

My idea is to get a reaction from the viewer, of "I have seen this, I have been there". My focus remains at building a personal connect of my work with the viewer. Something where my artworks take the viewer back into a memory of their own.

# Is there anything special about your work that you want to highlight?

My works are personal, but they still tell a story that anyone or everyone can relate to.

# Can you give us 5-10 lines about your technique & materials?

I move around the city of Delhi (and also many other cities that impart the ‘feel’ of an India in transition) and capture images from those places which had made an impression on my mind during my growing up years. These photographs act as primary sketches for me. In artistic terms I call them drawings. Considering them as starting point for further alterations and manipulations i approach my Canvas. Using the traditional techniques taught at all Art schools, i create. I use Acrylics on a fine cotton canvas.

# How do you see yourself in the Indian art scenario?

I represent the youth of today. I see myself representing the young minds of today, both in terms of current art scenario as well as the socio political aspects of our society.

WORK IN PROGRESS

(coming soon)

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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

http://johnyml.blogspot.com/

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