Puneet Kaushik is exhibiting at Gallery Espace, a very spectacular show Barren Red. The Show will be open tili 4th Jan 2017.
Delhi based artist Puneet, known for his strong, abstract, primeval artworks, has worked closely with tribal crafts practitioners for almost two decades now. He feels that the national identity of India is rooted in its indigenous people, and their expressions. For him the nature of folk art is specific to its particular culture, which moves towards civilization yet, rapidly diminishing with modernity, industrialization, and outside influence. His aim is to revive the dying art of India. His multi-layered work represents humanitarianism, landscape of self along with the techniques like weaving, knitting, crochet and Tibetan bead work using the color red, representing blood that flows under our skins.
“Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible,” said Puneet, “it documents the Evidence of excavation of the self inflicted choices ,representing the collective memories of landscape , people , culture and spaces . A visual manifestation of a historical past relevant in the present .
My work impact more than just your physical space : scribbling in a meandering free flow of territorial thoughts that layer ,the social and cultural fabric of everyday existence almost in a meditative trance and yet entangled, knotted , tied , woven ,stitched to let go of the wandering heart .
The Montage of cross disciplinary techniques that each space negotiates and creates a vocabulary of its own .Contrast is the core of the experience –light and dark, hard and soft, strong and fragile, robust and delicate, fiery and cool, passion and calm, intricate yet simple…. Like the testament of our faith should be the power of cultural expressions to become the fine balance between silence and speech ,gravity and lightness , participation and witnessing .
In my domain you think,feel,love and are loved.”