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SUBHAKAR TADI

“The Black Dimension”

October 31, 2015

“The Black Dimension” by Subhakar Tadi

Art DistrictXIII is pleased to open the exhibition “The Black Dimension” by Subhakar Tadi.

Tadi likes to work with a black and white palette. His obsession with black is the result of his background as a print maker. He uses Black as a symbol of protest and wish to black out the meaningless constructions and edifices that are erected in the name of development but are deterrents to perform.

The canvases painted with acrylic spray paint shows the painter covering buildings in black paint and other part in white depicts the welfare he wants to show. The paintings have been adopted from photographs and feature dark windows, black cats, graffiti on walls presenting Tadi’s humorous and deliberately distorted vision of reality. He chooses to dwell in surreal dimension. He only used the shades of gray, black and white because the colour creates noise and diversion.

Born in 1980 in Andhra Pradesh, Tadi completed his Bachelor’s degree in printmaking from Fine Art Department, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam and Master’s degree in Printmaking from Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University, Baroda. He has won 77th AIFACS National Leval Award and Honorable Mention Award at 6th International print biennial, Bharat Bhavan Bhopal. His works have been showcased at a considerable list of exhibitions. His works are in collections of various corporate houses and private collectors.

Artist Statement

I have always been curious to explore the dark and the grey areas of life through my work. Having been trained

as a print maker it added to my curiosity to search the different hues within the colour black. I have been working

on a series of paintings where black is the colour and also the medium. Having understood that there is nothing

absolutely black I try to dig out the various images which surface in due course of my engagement with colour.

When we understand colour as the medium and also as the message we surely are moving away from base

formal concerns to something deeper to say, „political‟. Since my works have always been from and about my

surroundings or my own experiences. This is translated/ transposed over some already existing images or

photographs which attempt to put across my thoughts and views about certain things. My earlier works were

dominated by black and its tonal variations. The idea was to cover the surface or the visible surface as much as

possible by painting it black. The intention though was to put forth a critique of the existing mindless development

called urbanisation. For me, black signified an act of protest and I always imagined the image of the painter as

myself.

The wall was a repeating metaphor in most of my earlier works. But they used to be another formal element in

the overall scheme of things. In this series I made the wall as my object and the surface too. I found an

interesting feature while dealing with wall in the paintings. As a medium, painting generally falls within the elite

arts. But while making the wall as a theme and subject I felt it could alter the enter dynamics attached to the

sophisticated medium of painting as such. Wall as a site is public. It is a palimpsest of various inscriptions which

talk about various ideologies and traits of the existing society. It‟s a site of contestation where contradicting

ideologies compete to get a larger visibility in the public domain. The wall graffiti‟s and the wall writings all over

the world have been the primary and sometimes even the sole carrier of the peoples need and opinion in these

of complete state-corporate control of media.

While painting the wall, it gave me a sense of entitlement to present my views without the worry of being

punished. As the wall writings have the sense of anonymity, I could express my views as an anonymous person

does. It becomes recorded within the already existing images in that surface. Also as an artist, I took the creative

freedom of de-contextualising images from anywhere right from web, to photographs, to my child‟s drawing and

putting in on a same surface where the images themselves enter a field of tension and start making new alliances

and connections according to the viewer‟s discretion. Also it enables me to side within certain statements which

might not be overtly visible. This series in that sense maintains my role in within the work as what we might term

as Absence- Presence.

Window 1 (Graffiti series), 2015

Acrylic spray paint on canvas

48“ x 72“ (122 x 183 cms)

Rs.2,00,000/-

Untitled, 2015

Acrylic spray on canvas

60" x 72" (152 x 183 cms)

Rs. 2,50,000/-

Window 2 (Artificial Crow), 2015


72“ x 48” (183 x 122 cms)

Rs.2,00,000/-



72“ x 48” (183 x 122 cms)

Rs.2,00,000/-



54“ x 54” (137 x 137 cms)

Rs.1,75,000/-



54” x 90“ (138 x 229 cms)

Rs.2,75,000/-

Cat (Graffiti series), 2015


36“ x 48” (91 x 122 cms)

Rs.1,00,000/-

Black Painter1 (Graffiti series), 2015


54” x 72“ (137 x 183 cms)

Rs.2,25,000/-

“

Black Painter 2 (Graffiti series), 2015


60” x 84“ (152 x 213 cms)

Rs.3,00,000/-



36” x 36“ (91 x 91 cms)

Rs.80,000/-



36” x 36“ (91 x 91 cms)

Rs.80,000/-



36” x 48“ (91 x 122 cms)

Rs.1,00,000/-



36” x 36“ (91 x 91 cms)

Rs.80,000/-



36” x 36“ (91 x 91 cms)

Rs.80,000/-



72” x 54“ (183 x 137 cms)

Rs. 2,25,000/-

CURRICULUM VITAE

SUBHAKAR TADI

Born 1980, Lives and works in Baroda

Education

B.F.A. in printmaking, fine arts dept.,Andhra university, Visakhapatnam (A.P.), 2002

M.F.A. in printmaking, faculty of fine arts, M.S.Uni.versity Baroda, 2004

Group Shows

2014

Regional Art Exhibition Lalit Kala Akademi Chennai

2013

Refraction-Two men show at Red Earth Art Gallery Vododara

A Group show of water colour SITE Art Gallery Baroda.

Show Stoppers (impressions from the south east) At Florida USA

2012

‘The new south-telugu tongues’ with Apparao galleries at aman hotel, New Delhi

2011

“Bollywood”, at arushi art gallery, New Delhi

‘The big picture’ -2 group show in Bangalore at gallery Leela palace and Sumukha

‘Baroda march’ at strand art room, Mumbai

‘Art Chennai’ in colabration with Apparao Gallery + lalitkala, chennai

2010

’One by one’ at faculty of fine arts, Baroda

Group show at gallery 1X1, Dubai in association with Gallery latitude

‘April salon’ a group shows in gallerie Mirchandani+steinrueke, Mumbai

2009

‘The big picture’ group show in Bangalore at gallery Sumukha Association with India foundation for the arts.

2008

A group show at Cymroza gallery in collaboration with Asmosis Gallery, Mumbai.

‘Imagined realities’ at Red Earth art gallery, Baroda

‘ AMAZING ‘- annual show by RPG academy of art and music Jehangir art gallery, Mumbai.

2007

‘Persistence’ group show at museum art gallery, Mumbai Curetted by osmosis art gallery, Mumbai.

‘Chronicle of the unspoken’ Travencore art gallery, New Delhi

2006

‘Modus operandi’ group show at ABS art gallery, Baroda

‘Intentions’ group show at kaleidoscope art gallery, Baroda

“Prints paintings’ two man show at progressive art gallery, New Delhi

2005

‘De priente’ printmaking show at Kaleidoscope art gallery, Baroda

‘Distilled ambers’ printmaking show at alternative art galley by Threshold Art gallery, New Delhi

Awards & Scholarships

Transpek-Silox Industry Limited, Vadodara., 2010

77th AIFACS, National level award, new Delhi, 2005

Honorable mention award, 2004, 6th international print biennial, Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal

National scholarship, 2004, dept. of culture, (H.R.D.) New Delhi

Telugu university scholarship, 2003, Hyderabad

Camps & workshops

conducted a etching & aquatint workshop, Surat school of fine arts (VNSGU), Surat ,2015

batik workshop at space stdios, Baroda, 2015

ITM-SAAD, Art Symposium 2012,I TM University,Halol Vadodra

Art Camp-Flora Construction and Development Vizag, 2010

Works in collection

Tasveer arts pvt. Ltd.,Bangalore

Uttarayan foundation,Baroda

RPG enterprices,Mumbai

Transpek-silox industry ltd.,Baroda

Chhap digital, Ahmedabad

Alembic group, Baroda

ITM university, art symposium, Baroda

Supreme Industries Pvt.ltd.,Mumbai

B.A .Reserch Pvt.ltd, Ahmedabad

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