selected sculptures by Ravinder Reddy

Bose Pacia gallery presents

selected sculptures by Ravinder Reddy

The Bodhi Art Award 2006 Show

The Bodhi Art Award 2006 Show

5th July – 4th August 2007Bodhi Art, Gurgaon.

Artist- Navin Chahande
Title- Puzzle
Medium- Etching on Decapo 200 gsm
Size-24 x 36 inches
Year- 2004

Artist- Atul Mahajan
Title- Breathing in Space (view-2)
Medium- Rubber with Air and Plastic Pot
Size-14x14 inchesYear-2006

Bodhi Art is proud to announce a showing of the winners of the Bodhi Art Award 2006.

The Bodhi Art Award 2006 was instituted in collaboration with the Department of Fine Arts, M S University, Baroda. Last years winners, Atul Mahajan [sculpture department] & Navin Chahande [print-making department] were selected by an eminent jury comprising of artists Anandjit Ray and Jitish Kallat, and art critics Nancy Adajania and Ranjit Hoskote. The jury spent a day thoroughly scrutinizing the work of the master’s degree students and the post-diploma students at the annual display of the Faculty of Fine Arts. They also interviewd a short list of students about process and method before conferring the award on Mahajan and Chahande.

The criteria for selection, as spelled out by the jury, were as follows:
- The work ought to demonstrate clear potential for future development, even if it may not seem fully consolidated at this stage.
- The young artist should indicate an amplitude of interests in her or his environment, beyond the bounds of the discipline in which s/he is being trained.
- The artist should not be concerned merely with a limited formalist accomplishment, but must aspire to a receptive and innovative approach.

Having said this, the jury is clear that "its nominees are not by any means 'gallery-ready'." The jury states categorically that this award “is not an instrument of star-creation, there being far too much hype around young artists in the Indian art world today. Rather, the Bodhi Art Award is intended to recognize and nurture talent towards it’s realization, through a process of dialogue, guidance and mentoring.”

The jury selected Navin Chahande for "his ability to work on different avatars of his key conceptual and pictorial interests, namely, the body and the axis mundi. He displays a talent for working in varied graphic and digital media as well as sculpture and installation. He is willing to expand his knowledge base and hone his spectrum of skills, especially in the digital media."

Atul Mahajan was selected for "his ability to revitalize sculpture by reference to interactivity and public-space behaviour. His inflatable mechanisms draw the viewer into an awareness of labour, magic and the palpability of elements like air and movement, which we take for granted. He is sifting among alternative methods of presenting his work so that it is both an object and a process."

Both Mahajan and Chahande will show their award winning work along with new work at Bodhi Art, Gurgaon.


On View From 5th July to 4th August, 2007
Time11:00 am – 7:00 pm (Tuesday – Sunday)
Venue: Bodhi Art,
Grand Mall, LG-1-5,
Mehrauli Gurgaon Road,
Gurgaon