ChampaTree Art Gallery presents

A room full of phools

फूलों से भरा कमरा

ABHIJIT SAIKIA | BALAJI PONNA | KEERTI POOJA | MANISHA AGRAWAL
NEHAL DESAI | RAJU THOTA | SAMIR MOHANTY | SANJAY BISWAL
SHIVAM KHANDELWAL | SONALI LAHA | VENKATESH DHULI

Gallery Champa Tree is pleased to present “A Room Full of Phools”, a group exhibition of the most recent works of eleven contemporary artists – Abhijit Saikia, Balaji Ponna, Keerti Pooja, Manisha Agrawal, Nehal Desai, Raju Thota, Samir Mohanty, Sanjay Biswal, Shivam Khandelwal, Sonali Laha & Venkatesh Dhuli, with an opening reception on August 4, 2023 from 6:00 p.m. onwards at the gallery premises in Greater Kailash II.
Around 24 artworks (paintings, drawings & sculptures) will be on display for the exhibition showcasing artists working with a vast range of mediums, such as, oil & acrylic on canvas; watercolor on wasli paper; tea water, charcoal, gauche & watercolor on paper; oil on coated linen; acrylic & glass marker on canvas; preserved twigs, flower petals & feathers; acrylic color on box; fiberglass.

The exhibition will be on view until September 3, 2023.

‘A Room Full of Phools’ a sensory journey, where fragrances intertwine with art to narrate stories of life, love, memories, and observations.

In the realm of sensory wonders, every corner of our world, from the heart of the kitchen to the verdant gardens, markets, places, books, and our favourite things, all exude an ethereal fragrance that transcends time and space. Amidst this olfactory tapestry, our cherished memories weave their aromatic tales, enveloping us in a poetic symphony of scents, creating an artistic
ode to the essence of life itself. Many poets, artists, and writers revered flowers as the mistress of fragrances; in historical fiction, Sherlock Holmes can identify a variety of tobacco by its aroma; while in the world of nature Pheromones are used as a form of communication by bees. Smells have a strong connection to emotions and can trigger a plethora of feelings, such as happiness, nostalgia, disgust, or comfort and evoking powerful memories. Presently, our city’s atmosphere is immersed in a symphony of clouds, carrying with them the delightful aromas of flowers and
the refreshing scent of rain. These captivating scents evoke the rich histories and cherished memories of Delhi and cities elsewhere.

This exhibition invites viewers to experience the evocative power of scents, igniting powerful emotional responses and stirring long-forgotten memories. Through a collection of artistic expressions, we seek to celebrate the essence of nature and life’s mysteries by awakening a profound appreciation for the sensory world, connecting us to our past, and illuminating the magic of fragrances that thread through the tapestry of our lives.

‘A Room Full of Phools’ brings together a diverse group of 11 contemporary artists, each offering their unique perspectives and interpretations as they explore the fascinating world of fragrances and their profound impact on human existence

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On view : 05th August ~ 03rd September 2023

 

 

ChampaTree Art Gallery presents

Why do cicadas sing?

Chintada Eswara Rao | Gayatri Halder | Mahavir Wadhwana I Navanshu Kumar | Neelima Nath OP | Prasad Shrikant Mestri | Prithwish Daw

Curated by Keerti Pooja

Gallery Champa Tree is pleased to present “Why do cicadas sing?”, an exhibition of the recent works
of seven young artists Chintada Eswara Rao, Gayatri Halder, Mahavir Wadhwana,
Navanshu Kumar, Neelima Nath OP, Prasad Shrikant Mestri, and Prithwish Daw, curated by Keerti Pooja.

Showcasing a selection of drawings, paintings, and sculptures with an opening reception on April 14, 2023, from 6:00 p.m. till 8:00 p.m. at the gallery premises in Greater Kailash, the exhibition will be on view till June 01, 2023.

As we travel through the maze and labyrinthine lanes of our lives as human beings, we experience the many complex layers of our existence. Through the guiding beacon of experiences, we unfold our own senses in the process. Traversing through the buzzing inner thoughts, we consciously calm the chaos and try to hear the voice resounding within. The narrative of this show is weaved to experience the innate, intimate inner voices of these brilliant seven artists culminated through their visual language. Their artworks converse with their thoughts like painted poetry and sing them to us as the songs of their inner thoughts.

These emerging artists, fresh with their degrees, come to the front to tell their unheard stories. The show envisions the amalgamating existence of the young voices in the current world masked by capitalism, symbolized through the metaphor of the singing Cicadas, whose humming we hear only in nocturnal settings.

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On view : 15th April ~ 01st June 2023

 

 

ChampaTree Art Gallery presents

transcendental chronicles

Madhu Venugopalan | Ravi Kumar Chunchula

Gallery Champa Tree is pleased to present Transcendental Chronicles, an exhibition of the most recent works of artists Madhu Venugopalan and Ravi Kumar Chunchula. Showcasing a selection of drawings and paintings (about 30 works) with an opening reception on February 4, 2023 from 6:00 p.m. till 8:00 p.m. at the gallery premises in Greater Kailash, the exhibition will be on view till March 15, 2023.

The works of both the artists, Ravi and Madhu share a magnified focus on the intricacies of the lives of the working class in the present landscape of time. With the struggle to attain an existential balance as the axis, both the artists approach their art with a sensibility observant yet humane, allowing every individual character to emanate multiple personalities, an emblematic collective of different places and characters with masks in and out concurrently. The works capture and exhibit the nuances leading the circle of life through progression and balance.

Outlining insights into the delicate balance existing in the human consciousness, intelligence, and idiocy, both the artists bring out the synergy and contrast of natural and systematic living with their works. Their practice is woven around the consciousness of the social and metaphysical aspects of the human existence, hoping to bring a definition to the rules of transcendentalism of simplistic living, self-reliance, spirituality, while addressing the abiding importance of nature
in their works.

Madhu Venugopalan’s ongoing series “An Antique Piece of Love” presents the visuals of his everyday encounters with people, reflecting the harmony of art, agriculture and nature with the depiction of these groups in a state of homeostasis (Samasthithi). Homeostasis is any process used by living things to actively maintain fairly stable conditions necessary for survival. In another painting, the artist employs the imagery of a group of people trying to balance above rudimentary
tools to symbolize the consistency in daily routines as a means to a happy life. Ravi Chunchula pinpoints the nature of our worldly desires and the problems resulted with them through satirical performances of the bourgeois.

Ravi stresses the importance of natural and social consciousness and the concepts of the good and the bad, both hidden in the realm of consciousness with captivating imageries in his works. He states that
triggering each and every sense is the basic rule of conscious living. His works express the visual metaphors of social consciousness concurring with natural consciousness in the current society.
It is these insightful inquiries about the lives of the commoners and the powerful in order to attain a rhythm, order, and the self-reliance of human existence portrayed in Madhu’s and Ravi’s works that the Transcendental Chronicles invites
you to experience.

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On view from 5th February to 15th March, 2023

 

 

ChampaTree Art Gallery presents

Garland of Memories

Recent works featuring artists Keerti Pooja and Srinivas Pulagam.

Srinivas Pulagam’s works delve into the histories of ancient India and architectural elements of the temple structures of Hindu pantheons. The animals represented as the vehicles of the gods are central to his paintings and juxtaposed to the structures in multi-layered elements. Srinivas lets the animals in his work be revered similarly to the Gods, placing them on pedestals with worshiping devotees, focusing on the temple and its structure; whereas Keerti Pooja’s works revolve around people in the bazaars near the temples. Her fascination with their daily jobs makes her romanticize and depict delicate details of their hands enlarged to draw the viewer’s gaze to the people engaged in mundane chores. She chooses objects of the daily wagers and migrants, placing them in baskets as if to defy gravity, highlighting the fragrances of their delicate lives entangled in their busy livelihoods. She puts the spotlight on the markets that surround these places of worship, where men and women sitting around weave garlands for the Gods and auspicious events.

In a juxtaposition of histories, biographies, and in a continuum of traditions these artists with their own memories weave the garlands of imaginative worlds to construct visuals reflective of the suburban backgrounds and present-day practices. Both look at the marginalized, migrants, or overlooked elements and bring them to the forefront, enlarging and emphasizing them. Adding memories, histories, happiness, and hardships in a settled and ascetic manner. The serenity of the people and animals in crowded and isolated compositions adds multiple dimensions to the onlooker standing before it.

In Support of ARTS4ALL

On View till 25th September 2022

11am – 6pm (Closed on Mondays)
W 114 Greater Kailash 2, New Delhi-48

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Champa Tree Presents

As Light as a Feather

Art works by Dakshayani Chippada | Puja Mondal | Kritika Kangriwala | Megha Madan

Four Young artists Dakshayani Chippada, Puja Mondal, Megha Madan, and Krutika Kangriwala celebrate the sensibilities of life whilst recording the mundane daily objects through delicately drawn lines. These works lie in between the world of abstraction and form to create the poetry of the serene and eternal nature of the lines. The lines; straight or curved, let them fall into the geometry, or the lines that have contours create the forms. These lines levitate on the skin of the delicate white papers.

The universality of these artworks is advocated through a reduction, to the essentials of form and color; by simplified visual compositions to vertical and horizontal, using black, white, and colored lines and contours to achieve the greatest possible degree of harmony and they go beyond the non-objectivity of forms which tends to flow/fly in the thin air like a feather.

In Support of ARTS4ALL

On View till 10 June 2022

11am – 6pm (Closed on Mondays)
W 114 Greater Kailash 2, New Delhi-48

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Champatree  in support of Arts4All  presents

Beyond the Sky, Sea and Nature

new works by Rinku Chauhan

 

The sky is as blue as the sea. The contours of the clouds are as curvy as the branches of a Banyan tree.What is the color of the Sky, the Sea? What is the shape of the tree and the clouds?

Rinku Chauhan‘s works are omnipresent and absent at the same time. Like the water, the sea, the sky and like the trunks of the trees, they are not defined by the form and grow like the prop roots manifested in a geometrical abstraction. These works defy time and the structures weft into strong outlines and the silhouettes, they transverse between the structures of urban and rural and play between the figuration and abstraction, intermingled into confined structures.

The movement of the forms is arrested and manifested in the form of circles which were on the boundary of an expansion. His works, like the cosmos or the explosion, expand through a geometric form and transcend beyond the forms of imagination.

 

Rinku uses the rooted roots through the use of the material, Corchorus Olitorius (Jute) native to his own land; that may be the land his family called their own for generations or the land as the country he belongs to. He stresses and retraces his attachment back to the roots of his rural India. His works are muted, earthy, and the natural colors of the materials. The forms grow organically into outer space and are arrested outside time, and space-bound towards the eternity of spirituality.

 

In Support of ARTS4ALL

On View till February 28 2022

 

Champa Tree Presents

LIFE IN A BELL JAR

Recent Works By

MANISHA AGRAWAL

In Support of ARTS4ALL

On View, Sunday, 24th August 2021 – Wednesday, 1st October 2021

11am – 6pm (Closed on Mondays)
W 114 Greater Kailash 2, New Delhi-48

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MULTIPOLARITIES

Recent Works By

KEERTI POOJA | LOKANATH PRADHAN | RAVI CHUNCHULA | SRINIVAS PULAGAM | VISWANATH KUTTAM

In Support of ARTS4ALL

On View, Sunday, 22nd November 2020 onwards

Online Exhibition

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Multipolarity of life that continues to invigorate our plural society, is mirrored in this exhibition of art works by 5 emerging artists from different regions of our country.

The eclectic and fascinating mix of arts in diverse media and manifestations, by these young artists, selected and nurtured by Arts4All, present an interesting assemblage with different artists giving his/her own interpretation and take on their stories or beliefs. The creative expressions resonate the continuum of our socio-cultural milieu in new colors and forms as the artists respond to the changing times and needs.The artworks adorning various themes, mediums, colors, and juxtaposing the normal with the un-expected, evoke a sense of vastness and variation that reflects to cherish and appreciate life, love, nature, or anything else that defines our diverse world.

Keerti Pooja’s work explores cities and conversations that had gone silent during the early days of the lockdown. The works draw on an individual’s experience of common architectural spaces, and the conformity of materials and forms, that have been filtered through regulation and mass production. Ravi Chunchula attempts to imbibe the stories of the cultural vibrancy of the people in his surroundings through his artworks. Minimal renderings in varying sizes and inexplicable juxtapositions are a hallmark of Ravi’s engaging compostions. Srinivas Pulagam attempts to depict various species as human companions through his art work right from the puranic period, that represent one or more aspects of luck and divinity by posing as a vehicle, power and so on for gods and goddesses. Viswanath’s monochromatic & static works take us from the cacophony of city life to a simpler time. The artist wants his artworks to go beyond the aesthetics and to be a medium by which the lives of his community can be seen & understood. Lokanath’s works transcend into sculptural wall installations painstakingly made out of plywood where he depicts the changing environments in our cities in a surreal dreamy landscape.

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Champa Tree Presents

MONSOON 2020

A Group Exhibition of Recent Works By

ARPITA REDDY | BINOY VARGHESE | FARHAD HUSSAIN | HARISH OJHA | MADHU VENUGOPALAN | NUPUR KUNDU | PUJA BAHRI | SHAMPA SIRCAR DAS| VIREN TANWAR

On View, Wednesday, 9th September 2020 onwards

Online Exhibition

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In Support of Arts4All

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Champa Tree Presents

NEW WORKS FOR 2020

A Group Exhibition of Recent Works By

ANAND KAPOOR BHARTI | MEGHA MADAN | RAJU T. | SANJAY BISWAL | SANJAY RAJ | SUNIL YADAV

On till Sunday, 20th February 2020
Online Exhibition

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Champa Tree Presents

HEIRLOOM OF THE SENSES

Fragments Left by The Overlap of Memories

A Group Exhibition of Recent Works By

ABHIJIT SAIKIA | ASHIK ALI KHAN | BHARAT DODIYA | DINAR SULTANA | GAUTAM RAHUL | MAUSHAM RAJ | MEGHNA PATPATIA | PUJA MONDAL | RASHESH CHAUHAN | RAVI CHUNCHULA | RINKU CHAUHAN | RITESH UMATE | SAPNA KUMARI

Reception & Preview: Tuesday, 26th November 2019,
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
On till Thursday, 26th December 2019
10:30 AM – 6: 00 PM
(Closed on Mondays and Public Holidays)

Venue: W-114 Greater Kailash-2
New Delhi- 110048
011-49069569/ 49069559, 9810516300
champatreeonline@gmail.com

In Support of Arts4All

CONCEPT NOTE

Memories fade leaving behind fragments as the only source of recollection to the past. Forming layers with time as they camouflage, exposing only what is left as the intangible. This fading of memories expresses similarities to the phrase “To be or Not to be” from William Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’ as a reflection upon the concept of “Reveal and Conceal”. Here, the phrase illustrates the battle within our subconscious that constantly struggles with the choice of “what memories to keep and what to fade”. The phrase is predicted as a puzzle which is constantly curious of the five senses of the body: Smell, Sight, Hear, Touch & Taste, as an intangible treasure that remains infinite and is subjective to oneself.

In this exhibition, 13 young contemporary artists, namely, Abhijit Saikia, Ashik Ali khan, Bharat Dodiya, Dinar Sultana, Gautam Rahul, Mausham Raj, Meghna Patpatia, Puja Mondal, Rashesh Chauhan, Ravi Chunchula, Rinku Chauhan, RiteshUmate and Sapna Kumari explore the possibilities of exposing memories of the obscuring past in their selective artworks. The remaining fragments created by this constant overlap can be called an “Heirloom”.

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DOES IT REALLY MATTER??

RECENT WORKS BY MANIL

Reception & Preview: Sunday, 15th September 2019,
6:00 PM – 8:30 PM
On till Thursday, 3rd October 2019,
10:30 AM – 6: 00 PM
(Closed on Mondays and Public Holidays)

Venue: W-114 Greater Kailash-2
New Delhi- 110048
011-49069569/ 49069559, 9810516300
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In Support of  Arts4All

CONCEPT NOTE

Manil’s work is an expression of self, away from the societal deluge that we have created. His work is guided by free expression, away from a predetermined ornamental style, that transforms blank canvases into an experiment. The artist is only in control of the colour, washes and scratches on the surface. The outcome is purely incidental.

The stress on spontaneity and ‘beautiful deviations’ are crucial in his artscape. He is not preoccupied with perfection and the constant need for things to looks acceptable and aesthetic. Each canvas is an adventure- swift and buoyant. The adventure starts with the artist removed from the outcome, the lines gradually arises to form a story in shape of forms we are aquatinted with and it ends with the story progressively submerged into the lines it was shaped from. Lines flow without breaking the surface and create works that play around the visual parameters of both abstract and figurative. Manil’s artwork moves away from the usual clutches of conditioning and clichéd thought patterns. It is liberating to see self-expression in an expanse that is free from diktats, politics and society.

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Champa Tree Presents

DUALITY

RECENT WORKS BY
LOKNATH PRADHAN & VISWANATH KUTTAM

Preview: Friday, 9th August 2019
On till Sunday, 25th August 2019
Online Exhibition

011-49069569/ 49069559, 9810516300
champatreeonline@gmail.com, www.champatree.com

In Support of  Arts4All

CONCEPT NOTE

Duality is a group exhibition by two artists who explore two varied natural landscapes that exist simultaneously. One explores the topic of changing environment in our cities, the other takes inspiration from his decade long practice of combing art with natural environment he is most familiar with. Loknath Pradhan’s artscape touches upon the sensitive yet crucial topic that our current society is entangled with- pollution. Human insolence is not shown how it normally in popular visual culture. Refreshingly, nature is fighting back and finding a way to thrive in his artscape. Viswanath Kuttum’s body of work takes us away from city life to the quaint, pristine islands of Andaman and Nicobar. Taking inspiration social, cultural and environmental cues around him, he creates a sense of social coexistence and amity in villages through his work.

The contrast in their work is apparent by their use of colors and imageries. Loknath’s work looks bright and intriguing, hiding the problems behind the mask of consumerism, politics and growing conflict in society. Viswanath’s work is monochromatic and static which takes the viewer away from the cacophony of city life to simpler times.

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Arts 4 All Presents

GREEN LINE

KERELA FLOOD RELIEF FUND RAISING SHOW

RECENT WORKS BY
100 INDIA’S FINEST YOUNG CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS

Reception & Preview: Thursday, 4th April 2019
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
On till Sunday, 21st April 2019
10:30 AM – 6: 00 PM
(Closed on Mondays and Public Holidays)

Venue: W-114 Greater Kailash-2
New Delhi- 110048
011-49069569/ 49069559, 9810516300
infoarts4all@gmail.com, www.arts4all.in

Presented By: Kekkeyellam Foundation
Supported By: Champa Tree

CONCEPT NOTE

Kerala, Gods own country, a state in Southern India is known as tropical paradise of waving palms and wide sandy beaches. It is a narrow strip of coastal territory that slopes down the Western Ghats in a cascade of lush green vegetation, and reaches to the Arabian sea. It is also known for its backwaters, mountains, coconuts, spices and art forms like Kathakali, Mohini Attam and Kalaripayattu. It is the most literate state in India, and a land of diverse religions and culture, where you can find Hindu temples, mosques, churches, and even synagogues.

During the beginning of August, severe floods affected the state of Kerala, due to unusually heavy rainfall during the monsoon season. It was the worst flooding in Kerala in nearly a century. Millions of people were evacuated from various parts of Kerala. Around 14 districts of the state were placed on red alert. The flooding has affected hundreds of villages, destroyed an estimated 10,000 km of roads and thousands of homes have been damaged or destroyed.

KekkeyellamFoundation would like to step in the relief work by providing necessary fund by raising an Exhibition namely “GREEN LINE” which would include the art works of 108 contemporary artists across India. The show is being organized at Arts4All, Greater Kailash II, New Delhi from 5th to 14th April 2019.

Binoy Varghese

Arts 4 All Presents

SCULPTURES FOR EVERYONE

100 small sculptures on display

RECENT WORKS
CALCUTTA SCULPTORS
(The only group of sculptors in India est 1993)

Reception & Preview: Friday, 15th March 2019
5:30PM – 7:30 PM
On till 20th March 2019
10:30 AM – 6: 00 PM
(Closed on Mondays and Public Holidays)

Venue: W-114 Greater Kailash-2
New Delhi- 110048
011-49069569/ 49069559, 9810516300
infoarts4all@gmail.com, www.arts4all.in

Supported By: Champa Tree

CONCEPT NOTE

Arts4All is hosting a group show by the Calcutta Sculptors at their Art Centre, A4A Baithak. The show is a culmination of works by nine sculptors who have captured the everyday essence of human life. ‘Sculptures for Everyone’ is a carefully assorted exhibition of hundred artworks. Their life’s journey and everyday happenings is the muse for the works yet to be displayed. They draw inspiration from the mundane to the special; moments of significance have been documented through the medium of bronze. Irrespective of one’s background, the theme of the show invokes a sense of community and shared experience. These include a variety of emotions and experiences that may be subjective at first but are shared by all. The universal nature of the artscape is what makes it engaging and open to reflect on one’s own feelings and perspectives.

Calcutta Sculptors was established in 1993. It is the only independent organization of sculptors in India. In keeping with their yearly tradition, this year they will be felicitating Ms. Sushma Bahl, well know arts consultant and curator, for her contribution in the field of art. They support emerging sculptors by organizing art camps and scholarships for students all over the country. They also organize regular exhibitions and seminars for artists, scholars and curators to engage discussion and debate in the field of art.

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Arts 4 All Presents

INCISED LINES

RECENT WORKS
BY RACHANA BADRAKIA

Reception & Preview: Tuesday, 22nd January 2019
6:00PM – 8:00 PM
On till 5th March 2019
10:30 AM – 6: 00 PM
(Closed on Mondays and Public Holidays)

Venue: W-114 Greater Kailash-2
New Delhi- 110048
011-49069569/ 49069559, 9810516300
infoarts4all@gmail.com, www.arts4all.in

Supported By: Champa Tree
Sponsored By: Gujarat State Lalitkala Academy

ARTIST Note

“For me, the process of creating art is sometimes the complete absence or extreme presence of pain. Lines and space play a prominent part in my works with the subtle lines creating an abstract form which is floating yet stuck with the background. My lines define different energies and different state of being. It is an Artist’s medium of communication and expression. The energy in the lines that I create is constantly moving, travelling from one place to another. They look like small marks or curves, but with deep underlying emotions within them. Each and everything is connected universally. This repeating form in my works is a meditative process- it is my own personal journey with momentary feelings of happiness, memories of pain & love.”

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