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26/1/2007

A. Balasubramaniam

Talwar Gallery, New Delhi

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Talwar Gallery, New Delhi is pleased to announce its inauguration with an exhibition of new works by A. Balasubramaniam. The works will be on view from January 27th to March 31st, 2007.

The exhibition presents a significant body of works created over the last several years by the artist. In the most recent works, Bala realizes the immaterial by making physical that which is tactilely undefined. This comes to the fore in the work Dark Light and Container as Content, in which the artist has cast not just the physical space occupied by the object, but also the “experience” of the object with the light. He gives material form to the shadow of the sculpture and also to the journey of the light to create the shadow.

Stressing the importance of the path rather than the end is also central to Tree Inside, where the artist has cast a branch of the Banyan tree. Organic and earth bound, the work commands the entire gallery space and shimmers like a meteor from the sky, seemingly infused with the energy of its place of origin. Likewise, Wound suggests a geological phenomenon wherein the earth fractures to reveal a glowing chasm of hidden power. In another piece, Energy Field, a golden apple playfully entices the viewer to participate in the work. Lured by desire and warned by the pitfalls of such pursuits, a gentle shock awaits those who succumb.

The evolution of Bala’s creative and conceptual pursuit has added another dimension with this new body of work. His earlier output questioned what we see - the subjectivity of our perception, which often yields to illusion. This was followed by works that challenged us to believe in the unseen by manifesting the hidden in our consciousness. With the most recent body of shadow sculptures, Bala has reached yet another level by giving form to the dark and the unseen, casting it in matter and allowing us to see the invisible.

A.Balasubramaniam was born in 1971 in Tamil Nadu, India. He has participated in solo and group exhibitions in India, Spain, Korea, Japan, Germany, France, Singapore and the United States. Most recently his works were exhibited in the Belief, 2006 Singapore Biennale in Singapore. Since his solo show Into Thin Air at Talwar Gallery in late 2004, his works have appeared in 2005 in Transition and Transformation (Fine arts Museum, University of Massachusetts, Amherst), Indian Summer (Ecole de Beaux Arts, Paris, France) and Unfixed Being (Van Every/Smith Museum, Davidson, NC). Bala was artist in residence at MacDowell Colony in the United States in 1999. He was also the recipient of the Charles Wallace India Trust Arts Fellowship Award in 1997 and in 2006 he was awarded the Sanskriti Award for Visuals arts.

A.Balasubramaniam lives and works in Bangalore, India.

The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue including an essay by Sharmini Pereira.

Talwar Gallery C-84 Neeti Bagh - New Delhi
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