Proud Virginity 3 by Gagan Vij

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proud_virginity3

sculpture
bronze figurative
gagan vij
proud virginity 3

‘Human bodies with hunger for intelligence sailing through perplexed areas of their thoughts. This would define my works if at all needed to be defined in a phrase.

‘I let go my characters to perform their desires. At the starting point of the work, I am the bigger self-character as most of my works are reasoning with self. However, by the time the work starts taking a physical shape I become a very small substance and just an audience in comparison to the interacting sculpted characters.

‘I like to push the envelope slowly without bigger than life performances. I feel it is always easier to have a work understood when the work starts asking questions, rather than delivering answers. To make people think with different viewpoints at the same time is like having time itself, thinking. In physical terms, the bondage among figures surprising each other is what I thrive to achieve.’

—Gagan Vij

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Proud Virginity 1 by Gagan Vij

April 16, 2009Uddari Leave a comment

proud_virginity1

sculpture
bronze figurative
gagan vij
proud virginity 1

‘Human bodies with hunger for intelligence sailing through perplexed areas of their thoughts. This would define my works if at all needed to be defined in a phrase.

—Gagan Vij

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Subhash Parihar

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Works displayed at Uddari Art Exhibition
Koharwala Landscape
Fatehgarh Churhian 2003
Bargari Winter 2007
Bahmanwala near Kot Kapura 2008

Parihar is active in the fields of painting, sculpture, photography and art history. As an art historian, he has done pioneering work on the Indo-Islamic architecture of the North-Western India.

Book Ttles:
– Land Transport in Mughal India: Agra-Lahore Mughal Highway and its Architectural Remains, Aryan Books International 2008. Partially financed by the Barkat Trust
– Mughal Monuments in the Punjab and Haryana, Delhi 1985. Dr. W.G. Archer Award
– Muslim Inscriptions in the Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh, Delhi 1985
– Some Aspects of Indo-Islamic Architecture, Delhi 1999
Research Papers:
Oriental Art, London
Iran, London
East and West, Rome
Muqarnas, Leiden
Journal of Pakistan Historical Society, Karachi
Islamic Studies, Islamabad
Marg, Mumbai
Awards
Book on the Architectural Heritage of the erstwhile Sikh State of Faridkot, University Grants Commission 2008
Homi Bhabha Fellowship 1994-96
Photographic Survey of Architectural Heritage of Haryana under Senior Fellowship from the Ministry of Culture, Government of India 2001-03
Contributer, Dictionary of Art (34 Volumes) published by Macmillan, London
Contributer, Encyclopaedia of Persian Language, Literature and Culture in the Sub-Continent (to be published in Iran).
Dr. W.G. Archer Award by the Punjab Lalit Kala Akademi 1985
Punjab Lalit Kala Akademi Award for the best Photo Collage 1979
Exhibitions
One-man show, Government Museum and Art Gallery, Chandigarh 1979
One-man show, Triveni Gallery, New Delhi 1982
Artists’ Camps in 1979, 1980, and 1997