Levitate – A Group Show of Paintings Sculptures & Graphics at Amdavad ni Gufa – Ahmedabad, India

Amdavad ni Gufa – Ahmedabad, India

Eleven contemporary artists displayed their work at the exhibition ‘Levitate’ organized at ‘The gallery’, Ahmedabad from 12th to 18th November, 2013. The display included paintings-oils, acrylic; printmaking-wood cutting, etching; sculptures-stone, metal; and mixed media work.  

Sunil Nimawat’s Wood Cut on Display

Sachin Dadhich’s Sculpture in Mixed Media

Rokesh Kumar Singh’s Stone Sculpture

The works of Rakesh kumar Singh and Sachin Dadichi explore the materials in interesting, unconventional ways. Sunal Nimawat’s ‘portrait’ combines the conceptual element and technique of woodcut beautifully.

Lalit Garg’s Paintings in Mixed Media

Arpit Biloria’s abstract expression ‘intersectional void’ is an interesting play of geometric planes and positive-negative spaces. 

Arpit Biloria’s Sculptures in Metal

Margee Patel ‘s series of birds and especially ‘the swans ‘has captured the grace, beauty and delicacy of birds in the hard medium of stone. 

Margee Patel’s Stone Sculptures

Apart from the diversity of mediums what is remarkable is the diversity of approaches amongst the artists.  It will be interesting to observe these artists through their journey in the art field.

– Gayatri Menon

L to R – Sunil Nimawat, Sachin Dadhich, Mayank Sharma, Lalit Garg, Arpit Biloria, Margee Patel, Riddhi Shah, Jyotika Rathore & Rokesh Kumar Singh

Press Coverage

Divya Bhaskar – Ahmedabad – 13 November 2013

DNA – Ahmedabad – 13 November 2013

Ahmedabad Mirror – 14 November 2013

Sandesh – Ahmedabad 15 November 2013

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Guests at Studio Verve – from across the seas !

 A visit to Studio Verve by Old Friends  ! 

Uttarayan : Kite Flying Festival : january.

Just Came across these photos and had to post them !!!

M. and MMe Allain and M. Joël Aubry.

Joël is a film maker and an avid traveller, 

He recently travelled the ” silk route “ to make a documentary film.

It was the trade route that was used to transport mainly silk and spices as well as medicine, jewels and other goods. This route was important for the early development in China, India and went all the way to Persia and Ancient Rome.

Arpit Biloria with the Guests 

Mukund, Chloe and Deviba Wala

Photographing the artwork at the studio 🙂

M. and MMe Allain

I had the pleasure of meeting them during my stay in France a few years back. 

Chloe is an Artist. 

We had a good time indeed .. talking about out sculptures and paintings and showing them around the place. It was a pleasure indeed to have them over and nice to have a good conversation( in a mix of three different languages ).

A relaxed happy afternoon ! 

.. espérons vous voir tous bientôt  !!

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Ahmedabad city. Art on the street walls

The Ahmedabad city street walls are awash with a roit of colours.

The A.M.C recently organised an event to paint the blank walls on streets in Satellite, Maninagar (Kankaria) and near the University Ground.

 

Artists & locals from the city, as well as Artists from Kutch were invited to paint.

 

People Stopping by to watch the artists at work.

 

An interesting range of styles adorn the walls. 

 

 

It was great to see the space transform in a couple of days. The City definitely looks more lively and it’s great that the public gets of daily dose of art as they drive by .

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THE SMART SHOW

 

by The SMART Art Hub

 13th Sept., 2011 -18th Sept., 2011
4 pm to 8 pm

at the Amdavad ni Gufa

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32nd Sketchcrawl World Wide Event, Ahmedabad CHAPTER, India.

The team from Studio Verve participated in an International event once again and we are glad to be contributing to the event. We made new friends and associations and talked of future collaborations with other artists and artist groups.

The below link would give more insight into the event.  

 http://www.sketchcrawl.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=57

The following are the artists present for the event.

Vrindavan Solanki, Arpit Biloria, Suresh Immanuel, R. Y. Bhaviskar, S. Dhanaraju, Ashish Bhavsar, Mukund Patel, Mukesh Gajjar, Akkireddy Prakash, Saheb Ram Tudu, Shyam Pahapalkar, Asha Rawat, Abhijit Paul, Arjun, Rohit, Zubair.

Group Photo

In the foreground Abhijit Paul and Asha Rawat and in background right corner myself Akkireddy Prakash. 

Respected Vridavan Solanki sharing some lighter moments.

Sketch by Solanki Sir.

Mr. Suresh Immanuel,a senior faculty from NID with a sketch book  capturing the fellow artists, 

Quick portraits by Suresh Immanuel.

Saheb Ram Tudu.

Myself Akkireddy Prakash , having fun.

Mukund Patel

Shyam with color riots……..capturing the rainy , gloomy mood.

S. Dhanaraju,  who organised the event.

Sharing thoughts.

Solanki Sir sharing his experiences.

That’s me at my best sharing a few jokes over a wonderful cup of  hot tea and coffee in the rain with dripping water drops that halted our work for a while contributing to this ‘break’ giving us a chance to get to know each other more closely.

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Introducing the artists at Artist Lounge, lets come face to face with them..and catch them in action……..

                                                                    Shyam Pahapalkar :
Shyam is always the silent man around but a consistent artist at work all the time…very child unlike his appearance! a nice guy , soft spoken… yes his works speak silently of many things and he’s an artist in the true sense of the word. We love having him around.  Shyam has amazing love towards ‘Papier-mâché‘, n does magic with paper ……..u’ll see his works soon.

                                                                Saheb Ram Tudo:
This is my favorite individual Saheb Ram Tudo, who is in constant pursuit of some or the other art form from writing to drawing and illustrating to painting as well as sculpting.  he has an amazing body of work on display online, it is a visual treat. soon ill publish his links here on the blog.

 

Abhijit Paul: 

 This is Abhijit Paul at work, he’s absolutely fun to be with. to tel no show about him open this link.find it for urself, but thats not all wat he is , this is his past bachelors days.now he is a big deal. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Eo_s9vl248

Asha Rawat:

…Yes talking about this one..i laugh first then of course have to say that she brings a lot of positive energy. with her it’s questions, confusions, fun masti, n lot of overlapping ideas that she keeps shooting randomly all around…..but dont take her lightly!  she is the heavy weight one in terms of work.
work, work n work…………work she is in love with . Painting all the time,  she wanted to do a lot of portraits of people but ended up being the favorite model for other artists at Artist Lounge……soon we will post her in all possible avatars penned down by all inhouse artists.wait for it…….

Thats all for this time … will introduce the others soon n more on these artists  in detail in the future.

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Verve Artist Studios

Threshold to our Verve Studios ‘ARTIST LOUNGE’ you are all welcome…………………….!

This common room invites you all to be seated………………………come just fill these places…………lets talk, chat, share, teach, learn, collaborate, exhibit. brainstorm with each other, just shoot brain teasers……………so each of us be in action ……………………………!

Hey good news:  we have Television…………………..lets watch some documentaries on artists life and art ……………..wanna know more about art and wanna say more about art…………….come to our place n make your space…………!

address: verve artist studios – B 1-2, rushabhdev complex, rajnagar cross roads, near nid, paldi, ahmedabad 380 007

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