Tao Art Gallery, one of the oldest art galleries in Mumbai, in collaboration with Gallery Threshold announces their next special art show – ‘Merging Metamorphosis’. The show will display works from two influential artists – abstract artworks by Rahul Inamdar and sculptures by Alex Davis. Previewing, Monday, December 6, 2021 at 6:30 pm onwards, the show will be on display until Sunday, January 9, 2022.
The only intention of Merging Metamorphosis is to engage intuitively, challenge boundaries, and trigger an ongoing metamorphosis. It promises to bring together two powerful artists exploring their common experience of creation of art through independent mediums. The works are alive, incarnations of the artist but also the genesis of the artist’s becoming!
Commenting on the upcoming show, Sanjana Shah, Independent Curator and Creative Director – Tao Art Gallery, said, “With Merging Metamorphosis, we are bringing together two artists using two mediums to showcase their art. Artist Rahul Inamdar in his current series, allows the canvas to participate in its creation, allowing it to slowly and whimsically absorb the colour and chart its path. The lines drawn merge into the oil and create unique shapes, pulling the viewer to explore their mystery. Surpassing time and space, the works challenge with their dichotomy: soft and loud, minimal and maximal, monotone and colorful, all in the same moment.
Artist Alex Davis embraces a similar dichotomy in his sculptural creations. Sharp stainless steel evolves to become a delicate fluid design, and enormity in scale is balanced by sensitivity to the intricacies of his inspiration. Nature is the muse for this series as he brings to life architectural plants like blossoms, orchids, creepers and bamboo groves in a truly Contemporary way! Davis’s art pushes the viewer to see these seemingly finite natural elements in a more solid, permanent and statement form.”
Artist Alex Davis said, “I often find myself at the crossroads between the role of a curator and an artist throughout my practice, more like a curator artist. I like to select, curate and re-present a particular theme in my all my series of works whether inspired by nature, vernacular popular culture or even crafts and aesthetics traditions of the Indian subcontinent.”
Artist Rahul Inamdar said, “For the work to go deeper, it must become free of the maker. This process demands reduction - of the contexts, the interpretations, the means and finally oneself. To reduce oneself means to surrender. It requires intuitive communication with tools, colours and methods which gradually reduces the outcome-orientation, the need for control and ultimately the presence of the maker. In the moment of surrender, the time becomes still. The need for decision ceases, direction becomes clear. The work becomes free, inevitably simpler. That’s the movement, from form to essence - of the work and of the maker. That’s what my practice is all about.”
At Merging Metamorphosis, audiences will get an opportunity to witness an intrinsical interaction with the pieces the artists make: moulding, nourishing, creating, destroying and then ultimately reviving.
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