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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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Exhibitions for Sanjay Verma:
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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 Arts, New Delhi.
2009 : “Gen Next” at Open Palm Court ,India Habitat center, New Delhi By Ragini Arts.
2008 : “Expressions” By Arushi Arts at Shridhrani Gallery New Delhi
2008 : “Intensity in Diversity” By Domus Art Gallery at Travancore Art Gallery
New Delhi
2008 : Rajasthan School of Art Alumni Show, Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur
2002 : Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi
2002 : Pradarshak Art Gallery, Mumbai
2001 : Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi
2000 : “Guess Who Painted it?” Art Today Gallery, New Delhi
2000 : Sudharshana Art Gallery, Bikaner
2000 : Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur
1999 : Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur
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