PRESS RELEASE*
G.R. Iranna
KING OF CLAY
ArtsIndia Gallery, NY
April 21 - May 7, 2006
Open reception, April 21, 6-9pm
Iranna's art is dynamic in its composition and powerful in its form. There is an inherent energy in the texture of his works that is both raw and sensual. Iranna's imagery evokes affiliations and associations with the erotic, the devastating and the tragic. It is filled with angst, making his visual language symbolic of his own inner space, addressing pain as the abstract force in his compositions. This is translated visually in the bruised textures and in the shapes with cutting edges. He juxtaposes layered images within flat spaces in his compositions, bringing in an element of the surreal. The center of his visual is the human form - defined, naked and primordial. It is the source of all artistic inspiration that plays out on his canvasses. It provokes the viewer to re-evaluate the very basic of human motivations.
Gallery Arts India is proud to host GR Iranna's first New York solo exhibition. Iranna by many counts is one of India's premier postmodern painters. Hailing from New Delhi, Iranna graduated from the Delhi College of Art. He won the National Academy Award in 1997 and went to study in London on a Charles Wallace Scholarship. His works can be found at the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi. He has held various solo as well as group exhibitions at galleries across India. Iranna lives and works in New Delhi, India.
For more information and visuals, please contact:
ArtsIndia Gallery, 206 5th Avenue, Fifth Floor, between 25th & 26th St.
T: (212) 725-6092; F: (212) 725-6096, newyork@aicongallery.com
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