Gallery Art Positive puts up a group exhibition on abstract art.
Gallery Art Positive is proud to present its latest exhibition, An Abstract Pause, premiering on 31st January 2025, at Lado Sarai as part of the India Art Fair 2025 Parallel Event.
The exhibition curated by Georgina Maddox and presented by Anuj Bajaj features 13 Artists- Alka Jhamb, Avneet Chawla, Anwar, Bose Krishnamachari, Birender Yadav, Chandan Agarwal, Claire Iono, Manish Pushkale, Moksha Kumar, Neeraja Divate Shahanshah Mittal, Shobha Broota, Sujata Bajaj -working with abstraction.
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Image courtesy- Gallery Art Positive
The exhibition remains on till the 28th of February 2025 at Lado Sarai, New Delhi.
An Abstract Pause- Abstraction in Contemporary Art in India
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In modern and contemporary art, abstraction gives artists the room to discover an ‘alternative principle’ which allows them to escape from the narratives of our collective and individual existence to create a ‘pure art’, free from human tragedy that is personal and even universal.
Pioneers of the abstract art movement like Piet Mondrian believed that ‘line’ is the foundation of all art, and that lines had the power to create structure, rhythm, and harmony in a composition. Abstraction often strips artistic expression down to the basics and creates art with the rudiments of line and colour elements that help artists convey the very essence of the emotion.
An Abstract Pause in its show, exhibits the function of these abstract ideologies in the art world today, where one is dealing with the multiplicities of our lives, that are both ‘virtual’ and ‘real’. We have been introduced to the idea of the multi-verse where things exist and affect each other simultaneously.
Conveying the Mystical Energy through Abstractionism
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To quote an existing definition, “The multi-verse is the hypothetical set of all universes. Together, these universes are presumed to comprise everything that exists: the entirety of space, time, matter, energy, information, and the physical laws and constants that describe them.”
Abstraction has been in the process of touching the multi-verse through the idea of infinity, even before the idea of the multi-verse became popular. The positive mysticism embraced by most abstractionists, simplified the subjects of his paintings down to the most basic elements, in order to reveal the essence of the ‘mystical energy’ in the balance of forces that governed nature and the universe.
One can employ this through thought-provoking work of artists who have constantly pushed the realms of abstraction to discover new grounds and newer interpretations of the human imagination. We hope to delve into this exhibition.
The feelings behind the basic motifs, the emotions people feel, and the idea of multi-verse through art is what one hopes to touch through this exploration.
Feature Image Credit- Manish Pushkale, 2021, Gallery Art Positive
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