Decoding urban realities

George Martin's painting


Manil Gupta's painting


Decoding urban realities

by Vedprakash bhardwaj

Total sold out before opening is great news for an artist at age 28 and 33. It’s happened at palette art gallery, New Delhi on 8th July. Palette exhibits two young artist Manil Gupta and George martin p j titled Encode-Decode. both are represent young Indian art community. They are not only modern artist but also post-modern artist in their style and thought. They focus on present life on different Engel’s. Virtual world reflects in their creations in many manners.

Artist Manil Gupta just passed out art collage in 2003. He is an artist with a different eye. Comics like characters are playing on his canvas and explore contemporary life, which controlled by technology that create by human but control to human. This techno-reality is our present and might be future also.

He deals with the urban society and his different faces. Contradictions and conflicts of modern play on his canvases, upper class and lower class are existed same time, and Manil deal with their different situation. He does not give any direct massage in his work. He just tries to represent the nature of human society and events of day-to-day life. His work, like ‘and one fine day… it will all be over’, ‘the forced ritual’ and ‘the mockery of our hollow lives’ are good examples of conceptual art.

George Martin p j focuses on urban life also. We face a kind of computer language in his work which is very attractive. He uses vibrant colours in a cinematic style. Some time he paints a figure but mostly he use figures as a symbols. He travel between Reality and hyper realities and find some god reason to paint his world in which he live.