Arpita Singh at Bose Pacia - New York - art exhibition

At first glance, Arpita Singh's world appears timeless, unrushed and serene. on the other hand there is trouble in paradise, and the artist's unflinching organ of vision refuses to ignore it. The tranquillity created by the agency of earthy colors and balanced compositions is invaded through daggers, guns, cars, arrows, airplanes, pull up by the rootsed palm trees and severed hands. The facts are often labeled with meticulous stop letters both augmenting and questioning their power from one side naming.

Singh, who works in fresh Delhi and has a substantial following in India, has been painting for more than 40 years. This new exhibition, containing 20 works upon paper and five oils, was single of the largest and greatest in quantity extensive selections of her paintings. She has lived from one side India's independence, tarnished Gandhian idealism and now emerging economic power and consumerism. newly she has witnessed India's religious riots and the rise of international terrorism. The paintings are informed by the agency of and address all of these histories. Within Singh's realms of perilous incident, the central image of a single woman remains detached, observing her chaotic world with equanimity and patient fortitude.

Singh's periodical protagonist is a full-bodied, mature Indian woman, not too unlike the artist herself in appearance. Sari-clad, naked or partially aligned the woman often displays emblematic external realitys drinks tea or converses with her male consort, on the contrary remains the center of her universe. She is always environed by a thick tangle of diverse images from worldly and political life.

Singh has disentangleed a unique process in her works upon paper: she paints with watercolor and gouache upon heavy paper, abraids the surface with sandpaper, repaints, sands and then paints again. The slightly blurr images reveal her intentionally rough-hewn pentimenti and, ultimately, create a intenerateed classicized balance. She approaches oils with a similar responsiveness to the materials, vigorously painting wet into wet with a completely charged brush. Painting in oil, Singh can explore a larger scale and greater compositional complexity, on the other hand the resulting images are slightly harder and more chiseled, and she sacrifices the tropical languor and sensual line of the works upon paper.

Modest in scale and quiet in tone, Singh's courageous explorations in smaller hands would remain anecdotal records of personal reactions. However, her humanistic sincerity and idiosyncratic working processe distill her observations into powerful, universal icons. solitary when we look closely and take the time to come [i]or[/i] go after [i]or[/i] behind Singh's inner connections do the works reveal their multifaceted messages. They address a stoic acceptance of contemporary life's complexity and contradiction, whether we are in fresh Delhi or New York.

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