Report: Shodhan Prasad

Dubai, Apr 6: Cobalt Arts, an art gallery from India is organising an art show at Gallery of Light, Ductac, Mall of Emirates from April 6 to 12. They will showcase artworks of senior and renowned artists along with contemporary artists from India.

Art lovers are invited for the inauguration of Cobalt Arts show on Wednesday April 6 at Gallery of Light, DUCTAC, Mall of Emirates, here at 6 pm and the show will run till April 12.  

Cobalt Arts, an art gallery based at Mumbai, India, is the brainchild of Neeta Pathare, an artist, curator and art critic. Cobalt Arts organizes art exhibitions all over the world and offers a platform for contemporary artists to showcase their artwork along with renowned artists and ‘Masters’ from India. Cobalt Arts has organised several successful art shows drawing attention of art lovers all around the globe. It will showcase  an enormous range of artwork, from contemporary to abstract, from figurative to landscapes. This show offers the viewer an experience of the mind space of an artist, where an artist creates an unimagined experience beyond this existential reality which is beyond the ordinary understanding of our being.

This exhibition will be a great visual treat and offers viewers an opportunity to see artworks of 19 renowned artists from India such as Suhas Bahulkar, Ashok Bhowmick, Vipta Kapadia, Vinod Sharma, Prakash Ghadge, Parsharam Sutaar, Sanjay Srivastav and P K Sadaanandan along with works of emerging artists such as Parag Borse, Dilip Dudhane, Neeta Pathare, Shuvendu Sarkar, Prince Chand, Datta Thombare, Ganesh Hire, Girish Urkude, Varsha Vyas, Suresh Parihar, Alka Pandey.

These selected works of art are reflective of the inclinations and inspirations of these artists. The works of the artists like Suhas Bahulkar, P K Sadaanandan, Parag Borse and Dilip Dudhane echo the Indian lifestyle. While Suhas Bahulkar’s paintings are a contemporary expression to Maharashtrian tradition, P K Sadaanandan’s artworks draw their inspiration from the paintings at Ajanta and Ellora.

Parag Borse’s portraits of villagers celebrate Indian village life. Whereas beauty and innocence of a young Indian girl can be experienced through Dilip Dudhane’s paintings. Ashok Bhowmick’s ‘Bulls and Bird’  series symbolize proximity of force and feeble - power and life. Works of Vipta Kapadia, Girish Urkude and Alka Pandey play with the abstract forms and offer the viewers a glimpse into a space of imagination and creation. While contemporary paintings by Neeta Pathare, Dattatray Thombre give deeper insight into  the lives of women, Vinod Sharma’s mountainscapes of Ladakh or Prakash Ghadge’s pen and ink artworks are quite captivating.

While ‘Monk and Buddha’ by Prince Chand draws the viewer closer to the  divine, conceptual themes dealing with varied social issues explored by Shuvendu Sarkar through his paintings, keep the viewers in touch with reality. Suresh Parihar’s mixed media works help the viewer through time and space whereas Varsha Vyas’s floral paintings bring forth the beauty of the natural world.