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Artist Statement for Shailendra Tiwari
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"HOMAGE TO THIRD DECEMBER"
A painting exhibition by Shailendra
- This exhibition is devoted to the memory of departed souls who suffered torture till they ceased to exist as a consequence of man made disaster enacted at Bhopal (India) on the 2nd and 3rd December in which "MIC" has been handled in the most "Devilish Scientific Manner" against all Human Values.
- This is a salute to the tenacity of the numerous suffering lives at Bhopal who are at the verge of organic decay.
- This is a tribute to journalism for its innate nature to speak for the cause of humanity, its foresight and constant warnings which are always ignored by the oppressive forces in human society.
The Concept :
- I do not intend to make pleasure garden by exhibiting this "Black Art". Our century is evidently violent, cruel and pervert. In this confused, Ambiguous, Insecure instant where tragedy is more 'real' then all the rest, I mourn with my black art.
- My art does not promise any exhilaration because we are secretly violent, cruel and nihilistically chaotic. It does not offer stream of emotions which are in vivid contrast to our day to day lives in this "safe scientific society" but I have created it because those grey fearing lives who now cease to exist, will gain "reality" "colour" and "validity" with this contrast easily accessible to them. They will be born again in "disturbance" of your mind when you will rewitness their violent deaths while looking at these paintings.
- The death in my paintings will promise hope for a safer life the distorted shapes will envisage a symmetry in future extrapolated time, these meaningless poems chant a 'Mantra' for better unpolluted human existence.
- These paintings are created as a manifestation of guilt conscience here colours, shapes and texture are matter of hazard, they are toxic and inward, distructive so as to create an imbalance and make us "uncomfortable". They demand a disturbance a feeling of insecurity in the state of our safe lifes which are no longer safe, due to pollution scientifically created by us in every sector of this cosmic existence.
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The Artist :
- Born 1952 at Barwani, a small town surrounded by satpura Mountains in tribal district, Khargone, Madhya Pradesh.
- A formal degree in Electrical Engineering, 1973.
- Brought up in the disintegrating family of farmers which was in transition to service class. The primary quest to know the nature of THINGS continued along with his introspection. He travelled villages of west Nimar, on the banks of Narbada the virgin river on the ranges of satpura. He was introduced to Hindu philosophy during his adolescence by his father which has given him a deep understanding of the cosmos. It was the age of metamorphosis, he became the seeker, always seeking the cosmic communication. The experience of ultimate reality was vibrating which was absorbed and creative transformation came as paintings. It was a great experience searching the self in its inner most depths. It was journey from surface experience of THINGS to original fragrance. This journey started in 1960 and is still continued taking different paths and experiencing this dynamic reality through the different levels of consciousness. He has derived his inspirations from great masters of Indian contemporaing Art Shri. J.Swaminathan and Sayed Haider Aleza with whom he had personal interactions.
Exhibitions :
- State exhibition organised by Madhya Pradesh Kala Parishad - 1975, Bhopal.
- All India exhibition on Ramayna 1975, Bhopal organised by Akhil Bhartiya Manas Chatushshati Samaroh.
- One man show of paintings 1976 at Ravindra Bhawan, Bhopal.
- Group show with fellow artist 1978 at Gandhi Bhawan, Bhopal.
- Exhibition of paintings "Metamorphosis" - 1983 Madhya Pradesh Kala Parishad, Bhopal.
- Paintings in private collections in India and abroad.
Commission
Mural "Bird" at Arera Colony, Bhopal.
TECHNICAL DATA - 15 Paintings - size 35cm x 75cm Medium - Oil on paper.
Studio : 44 Ansalpradhan enclave E-8 Arera colony Bhopal(M.P.)India
Phone:-910755-2553920,Mob:-9425009577
- I wish with these paintings I could reach far remote corner in every country including third world where human life is still safe and being made "Scientifically comfortable".
- I wish I could share feeling of tragic death, which I have witnessed at Bhopal. My ignorance which has demurred me from doubting this 'safety' which has so many deaths in anticipation, so that the future self programmed hazards are doubted and people feeling safe are made alert towards this felt scientific luxurious safety, which is being injected in natural minds and slowly perverting them from their true functioning.
Shailendra
Bhopal (India)
"The significations in paintings are not directional. They partake of a simultaneity which resolves, time into space, allowing for infinite formal, abundance and multiplicity, each form being unique and therefore not to be superseeded."
(On the catalogue of “Metamorphosis” one man show inaugurated by Shri J.Swaminathan in 1983 at Bhopal.)
J. Swaminathan
The Concept :
The multidimensions of this dynamic reality are manifested to us in fragments. Its hidden dimensions are never revealed to us. The cosmos around us shapes us and the thiings in vicinity as a container shapes water we exist as product of METAMORPHOSIS different at every instant due to deliberate or accidental juxtaposition with this continuous dynamic reality manifested to us in space and time.
The paintings are my innocent efforts in seeking some of these hidden dimensions and are products of my metamorphosis. They await another metamorphosis in.......... you. I invite you to this voyage to experience this multidimensional reality and to multiplicity of its different meanings.
The Artist :
- Born 1952 at Barwani, a small town surrounded by satpura Mountains in tribal district, Khargone, Madhya Pradesh.
- A formal degree in Electrical Engineering, 1973.
- Brought up in the disintegrating family of farmers which was in transition to service class. The primary quest to know the nature of THINGS continued along with his introspection. He travelled villages of west Nimar, on the banks of Narbada the virgin river of Madhya Pradesh, on the ranges of satpura. He was introduced to Hindu philosophy during his adolescence by his father which has given him a deep understanding of the cosmos. It was the age of metamorphosis, he became the seeker, always seeking the cosmic communication. The experience of ultimate reality was vibrating which was absorbed and creative transformation came as paintings. It was a great experience searching the self in its inner most depths. It was journey from surface experience of THINGS to original fragrance. This journey started in 1960 and is still continued taking different paths and experiencing this dynamic reality through the different levels of consciousness.
Exhibitions :
- State exhibition organised by Madhya Pradesh Kala Parishad - 1975, Bhopal.
- All India exhibition on Ramayna 1975, Bhopal organised by Akhil Bhartiya Manas Chatushshati Samaroh.
- One man show of paintings 1976 at Ravindra Bhawan, Bhopal.
- Group show with fellow artist 1978 at Gandhi Bhawan, Bhopal.
- First Exhibition of paintings "Metamorphosis" - 1983 Madhya Pradesh Kala Parishad, Bhopal.
- Paintings in private collections in India and abroad.
Commission
Mural "Bird" at Arera Colony, Bhopal.
Studio2 : S/2 Meera Complex , Maharana Pratap Nagar-2 Bhopal-462011, INDIA Ph. 2553920, 4271759, Mob:9425009577, Email-swtiwari1952@yahoo.com
Res : 44 Ansal Pradhan Enclave,
E-8 Arera Colony,
Bhopal - 462011
Shailendra Tiwari critical comments on catalogue of fellow painter
ANIL GAIKWAD.during his exhibition in Jahangir Art Gallery Bombay.
"Whatever springs from the combination of magic with denial of reality is essentially ethical" -Louis Aragon
The work of art raises a metaphysical & metaphoric question to the nature of reality the reality thus questioned has to demonstrate whether the fragment of external world incorporated in it is real or translucent and nearly invisible structure of the work of art is more real.
The secret and not so sacred drama of forms depicted as natural accident in the paintings stand alone, hanging in the field of consciousness, their presence is overwhelming, nascent life meshrooming crawling steping and scratching her wings.
Painting placed here are product of an unending journey, we could see here a kind of miditative aura generated, there is shining by the functions of all the senses, yet without the senses, unattached yet supporting all, devoid of qualities yet their experiences.
The emotional charge cultivated in these paintings ask us about ethical dimensions last in deciphering evil or good, one enters while watching these works in a magic spell and seldom comes out untouched.
Shailendra Tiwari
Anil Gaikwad is a promising & sensitive young artist. His works portray a sense of spaciousness brought through on interplay of light and shadow in a myriad of colours and textures.
The quiet construction of flat planes in his works with a feeling of reflected light, combined with voluminous surfaces, to give rise to harmonious spaces.
Mamta Singhania
THE CONCEPT :
Absolute Reality is dynamic -- and incomprehensible. Its dimensions are continuous and endless. It is unique. An experience of its abundance, diversity, multiplicity and procreation is wonderful.
Though incomprehensible, yet we confront Absolute Reality in numerous forms. We attempt to define and symbolize it. We fail. And yet, in those inspired moments, we do feel this Reality passing through us as we lie as a pebble in the vast seashore of consciousness, aware of our tiny discrete identity made up of limited, comprehensible experience of this unlimited existence.
We perceive thus reality, we colour it, we try to imitate, transform and transgress it. Yet, at the end of it all, we emerge defeated. In realising the futility of our efforts we laugh at ourselves, much like a child in the lap of an indulgent mother. The play ends.
Seers, saints and scientists have all strived to reach somewhere near this root factor and prime principle but it remains elusive, far from the reach of the comprehensible, logical world.
Indian thought attempts to describe the omnipresent Absolute in several ways. In Sahastranama we pray and elucidate its comprehensible constituents, but the incomprehensible ones are left undescribed. They are given a composite name NETI-NETI.
Neti-Neti is a continuous principle of negation of the comprehended form.
Neti-Neti discovers the basic ever changing character of dynamic reality. It indicates that fragmented reality comprehended is, in fact, a tiny, discrete form of the Absolute and it is valid only within defined limits. It affirms the existence of an omnipresent, limitless incomprehensible part -- one that lies outside the confines of our perception.
Ours is a journey from the dwarfness of individual experience to the realms of the limitless Absolute. We await an awakening. We are waiting for a metamorphosis that must loosen up our fragmented, unitary existence and merge us with the Absolute. We crave to coexist as one entity in diverse forms as VISHVAROOPA.
The paintings that you are about to see are an attempt to portray this JOURNEY. They dare to extend the limits of the discrete experience of the individual. They are a prayer to the Ultimate for allowing a fresh stream of rejuvenated consciousness to flow through our veins that would enable us to truly experience the everchanging, endless Absolute -- the very Absolute which is giving every moment a new perception, a new existence, a new form, a new directional reality.
SHAILENDRA
THE ARTIST :
Shailendra Tiwari was born in 1952 at Barwani, a small town surrounded by the Satpura mountains in the tribal district of Khargone, Madhya Pradesh.
He studied Nature through the innocent eyes of an introvert child. The primary quest to know the nature of things continued along with his introspection. He travelled through the villages of West Nimar, the interiors of tribal Bastar and along the banks of Narmada, the virgin river of the Satpura. He was introduced to Hindu philosophy during his adolescence by his father which gave him a deep understanding of cosmic relations and interactions. It was a time of metamorphosis for Shailendra: he became the seeker, always seeking the cosmic communication. The experience of the Ultimate Reality was vibrating within him. It permeated deep within and its creative transformation came in the form of paintings. It was a great experience for Shailendra searching for the self in its innermost depths. It was a journey from the surface experience of things to their original fragrance. The journey started in 1960 and is still continuing, taking different paths and experiencing. This dynamic reality through different levels of consciousness.
EXHIBITIONS
* State exhibition (1975) organised by Madhya Pradesh Kala Parishad,Bhopal.
* All India exhibition on Ramayana, Bhopal (1975) organised by Akhil Bhartiya Manas Chatushshati Samaroh.
* One-man show of paintings (1976) at Ravindra Bhavan, Bhopal.
* Group show with a fellow artist (1978) at Gandhi Bhavan, Bhopal.
* First exhibition on Metamorphosis (1983) at Madhya Pradesh Kala Parishad, Bhopal.
* Homage to Third December : Paintings on the Bhopal Gas Tragedy (1985), at Madhya Pradesh Kala Parishad.
COMMISSION
* Mural "Bird" at Arera Colony, Bhopal.
Paintings in private collections in India and abroad.
Studio : 44 ansal predhan envlave E8 Arera Colony, Bhopal, INDIA : PHONE 91 0755 2553920
The ever changing character of dynamic reality in this nature has a fundamental creative principle in its flexible structure.
According to this principle things are not independent they are interdependent. The cosmos is vibrant, unified, organic whole comprising of infinitesimal innumerous live conscious entities functioning, diversifying interacting and entering into metamorphosis at every instant. This is making the universe an ever-changing reality transforming and taking different forms at every instant at micro and macro level.
But this change is directional. Problem lies in ascertaining the direction of this change, whether it is leading to destruction or whether it is a mere metamorphosis in the process of positive evolution. This is to be identified. A conscious vigil is to be maintained to see that growth is in positive creative direction.
The nature's creative principle has an in built limit, a flexibility in which every action and its reaction are performed. The whole cosmos is set of definite processes and systems programmed to ultimate direction.
These limits are important in every system of this universe. Our problem is to identify these limits and to maintain them properly. In the environmentalist view we emphasize these limits beyond which the systems and entities which are part of this universe become erratic and loose their natural track of interdependence and coordination and proceed under stress to a path of mutual exploitation, destruction decay and death.
The in-built nature of this universe, made up of two tendencies of construction and destruction, also works under these flexible limits. These limits lie between one point where it allows systems and entities to work on the basis of interdependence and cooperation so that although change in form is associated the overall effect leads to positive constructive growth through creativity and order is maintained.
One the other side of this limit there is a point at which the system and entities become out of control due to floutation of limits and stress induced. In this zone the system and entities acquire self destructive degenerative mode and polarities are such that the tendencies are opposing each other thus obstructing the directional positive growth resulting in retardation, blockade and decay. This is the range between mutual interdependence to mutual exploitation, between constructive creative nature to exploitative against destructive nature, between tyranny and love.
The exhibition emphasizes this universal principle of creativity and harmony with environment and nature for positive growth. The process of construction and destruction are abstracted symbolically through ritual of art. Here world is created and simultaneously destroyed, forms are growing, changing, acquiring or losing meaning to arouse and make us aware of this prime principle of meaningful co-existence.
SHAILENDRA TIWARI
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