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Artist Statement:
Galactic Convention
21st century is so immersed in
commercial typography,
channel-hopping, web-surfing,
consumer culture, competing
values, and objects clamouring
for attention that the picture
of uniformly beautiful,
obsessively thin and scantily
dressed model cheerfully or
seductively immersed in a
forest of words on magazine
covers may seem to us a mere
depiction of daily normality.
But Sanjay Verma’s recent
images are infused with new
radiance and vibrancy that
propels us to take cognizance
of the cliché emblem.
A period of some of the most
rapid changes in our history,
when technology, feminism and
higher education intersected,
resulted in the emergence of a
‘new cover model’ whose lures
of sex, youth and liberation
were co-opted by fashion
magazines as potent
ingredients to strengthen the
magic of consumerism. With the
rapid innovation of digital
technology the cover
typography on the magazines
also began to break out of the
quiet, restrained captions and
became artistic elements in
their own right. They quickly
moved in to live with the ‘new
cover model’.
At the turn of the twenty
first century, fashion
magazines witnessed the
transformation of the
standards of feminity into
abstract representations of
sexuality, which in turn
marketed transnationally, ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
Solo Show
2008 :
“Galactic Convention” Jehangir
Art Gallery, Mumbai
Group Show
2009 : “Who We Are” at
Sunjin Gallery, Singapore.
2009 :
“Ctrl+Alt+Del” Harvest, by
Arushi Arts at Stainless
Gallery, New Delhi.
2009 :
“Roopam” Rajasthan school of
art Alumni Show at Jawahar
Kala Kendra, Jaipur
2009 :
“Summer Show” at Arushi...
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