CARTOGRAFICTION
2022
2 April – 1 May 2022
India Art Fair, New Delhi | India
CARTOGRAFICTION
2022
2 April – 1 May 2022
India Art Fair, New Delhi | India
These paintings return to us the world as visualised by our childlike selves: mutable, sparking with potential, fluid in form.
Disclaimer: Images shown here may vary when viewed physically as metallic surfaces do not reproduce well in print or digital medium.
THE ARTIST STATEMENT
Cartography: the art of reading maps and the science involved in navigating routes and ways.
sing steel on a fabric canvas is an interplay of Yin-Yang, the soft and hard, the spontaneous and the structured. Randomised pieces of a puzzle that we call our home.
In a viewing of the works here, I-Land is man’s unique imprint on the planet, a virtual island inhabited by ideas of survival and evolution along with a reference to Cristos ephemeral island wrapped in plastic. D’Rift symbolises the melting ice and tactile planetary shift. Cloudy Bay and Bend in the Ganga denotes our wish to be immersed in the beauty of the planet we occupy, while Rufescent depicts the world’s obsession with moving to interstellar spaces and the occupation of the ‘red planet.’
‘There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.’‘
PABLO PICASSO
Creating a work of art that will be physically different for every person looking at it?
The immense reflective surface are like minds, in the sense that the mind observes the universe, and models it. We approach art not for worship, but for catharsis; not to see something else, but to see ourselves.
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“Jaideep Mehrotra has wowed audiences the world over with his canvases. But there comes along a moment in every artist’s life when he wishes to venture into something completely unexplored — and so it is with Mehrotra, who is showcasing his abstract creations for the very first time in Reflections In Mercury.”
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Collection 03
2007 – 2011
In this series, the paintings are social commentaries, juxtaposed or contrasted with city skylines, offering a piquant look of life in the metropolises. This confluence of people fires our imagination, feeds us with its spoils and simultaneously subjects us to its disconcerting side.
REFLECTIONS IN MERCURY
2007 – 2011
This series employs a new technique developed by the artist and is a culmination of over seven years of research and experimentation.Composed of a combination of metal, paint and various mixed media on canvas, the elements come together to forge intriguing, highly reflective works that tantalise viewers with an uncanny luminosity.
This series employs a new technique developed by the artist and is a culmination of over seven years of research and experimentation.Composed of a combination of metal, paint and various mixed media on canvas, the elements come together to forge intriguing, highly reflective works that tantalise viewers with an uncanny luminosity.
Enter a virtual new world, in which distinctions of reality and fantasy will cease to matter, as more of us will tend to spend time in the virtual environments or cyberspace.