SURVIVOR: Pavan Kumar D

SURVIVOR DRAWINGS AND SCULPTURES

PAVAN KUMAR D

11 TO 20 JANUARY 2025 TRIVENI ART GALLERY TRIVENI KALA SANGAM, NEW DELHI

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rtist Pavan kumar's surroundings have been major inspiration and its reflections have transformed into his works. His studio is surrounded by a lot of carpentry shops and this constant exposure to the left over wooden blocks attracted him to juggle with them and create a few paper weights in a playful process. It was the starting of a new medium- to explore and now it's been his journey of 18 years enjoying every bit of it. The challenges of selecting, assembling, engraving and the painting the unknown geometric into known organic forms, in process incorporating the corporate society has altogether been very adventurous for him.

Since then, the works have grown and transformed into refined structures .The possibility of enhancing the natural reeds or grains of the wood induces an aesthetic value and adds a distinct character to the individual forms .As they are found forms, the artist has the freedom to identify and explore each form in a new way without any preconception in a spontaneous process. With time text, icons and motifs have become an integral part of his works. Text is a powerful tool and no one understands that better than artist who thoughtfully utilizes text to communicate their artistic expression. The artist primary concern is the form and ideation and he pushes forth letters and words as his secondary means to project his message. He also introduced subdued colours along with the ideation- with play of forms. His works go beyond being just a paper weight or a mere piece of art. The text on different phases of the assemblage unfolds in ambiguity leaving an open end to the viewers to interpret the forms differently every time they see it. His art practice is a breakthrough in notion of craving sculptures -to retaining the found textures or form and reinterpreting it by minimal execution.

Artist passion of creating these assemblages was to bring art close to common man and sensitize the world around. As, the world we live in today is made up of concrete or plastic ,the artist aims at bringing back the values of being close to nature through his handy expression of art.

Pavan kumar is a versatile artist and has simultaneously worked on both realistic and on objects that are used in everyday life. Talking about his inclination towards realistic depiction from being abstract in his style of expression, Pavan elaborates, “Actually, my themes still remains ordinary but are executed in a contemporary style.” While his abstract works create an essence of harmony in the forms and thought process. The realistic works bring forth the forms in their known and well-defined attributes. His use of texture, text and form in transparent layers brings in a visual tactile quality. Through his play of the realistic approach and abstract rendering he connects directly and instantly with the viewers.

I conclude by quoting Leonardo Da Vinci--“The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of”.

And artist Pavan kumar truly justifies this quote.

SWETA CHANDRA, Artist Hyderabad

SURVIVOR 'Pavan Kumar D' & his artistic devices

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riggered by nature simulations, heuristic affects, intuitive praxis, and visual primers, artist educator Pavan's frame of reference is loaded with memory traces in time and space. In the process of marking drawings for the current series, he pays deliberate attention to the appearance of human interference in his chain of thought and patterns getting raptured by interventions, dismissals, and presence transferred to lines, compositional proximity, and tonal textures. In a coalescence of circularity with nonlinear occurrences of mundane. His art renders and registers contradictions, dismissal, and corporeality with sensual and profane. He feels and celebrates his family rituals of Brahmanical lineage as informants into his shade of artistic will and creative attitude for combining, joining, and gathering assemblies as well as diving into an approach for searching add-ons to the ordinary. While dictating his narrative-building methods, branching off his art making process, he admits to producing fragments from a grandeur. To an outsider it comes across as some sort of holism for the phenomenology of an anthropocene called man, in its process of being—'a being of self-awareness.'

He consciously operates as craftily as possible to not reduce, subtract, or carve out a sculpture but assemble conjoined pieces and found shapes, glued or fitted together and refined as per his personal aesthetic parameter. In my view, Pawan Kumar D has successfully demonstrated through this recent exposition of his select drawings and table sculptures a conformity for how lucid the barriers of artistic modes and medium become for an art practitioner of his calibre. His table pieces for corporate settings are some painted objects meant for holding, cuddling, or kissing, or, to be precise, for fulfilling personal intimacies. His drawing bridges over the gap between taking impressions (often confined to printed images in popular understanding) and surface paints of children's toys of folk origins. In his journey, he breaks mental barriers and favours visual saviours while challenging norms, taboos, and standards in visuality.

Believing himself as a story maker, his visual narrative builds itself upon textures rendered through obtaining impressions from a range of objects varying from award shields in his custody, craft objects from his collection, or anything that appeals to his eyes—from natural surfaces of things he happens to encounter or deliberately peek through. These impressions thus get embedded and transform into short visual tales and narrative blinks, much of which is encoded with signals and signifiers of variable suggestions—advertising language being one of them. This open-threaded mesh of 'attention' networks into symbolic tributes to the divine guidance and unseen support that help him glide through the immense pool of information. This support structure personifies, through his pen and ink and wooden blocks into figures embodying

elongated limbs and distorted eyes, allowing him clarity in vision, translating "possible" from impossibility and unwanted—a commonality (in his words) which he attributes to human struggle and survival.

Allow yourself to immerse in this encapsulating amalgamation of daydreaming, glitches, and pixels of gestaltian proximity, continuity, and visual frames from a SURVIVOR's visual diary. A conscious departure from reality into other planes of existence—a well-planned and wellexecuted excursion.

- Dr. Pratik Sagar (Artist, art teacher, and an ardent art lover) 08 January 2025

BIO-DATA NAME: PAVAN KUMAR D SEX: MALE MARITAL STATUS: MARRIED AGE: 43 YEARS (17 - 07 –1982) RESIDENT: HYDERABAD MOBIL NO: 09949951501 EMAIL ID: pavankumard1@gmail.com Address: Painting Community Studio-11. Garhi Artist Studio.

Lalit Kala Academy Amritpuri East Of Kailash New Delhi 110065 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Education: 2004 -2006 M F A Creative Painting, Sir Jj School Of Art University Of Mumbai.

1999- 2004 B F A Painting, M M K College Of Fine Art Kalaburgi University.

Participation: 2023 All India Art Competition And Exhibition 4th Edition At Chitramayee State Art Gallery Hyderabad.

2019 Hyderabad Design Week at HICC. 2019 All India Art Competition And Exhibition 2nd Edition At Chitramayee State Art Gallery Hyderabad.

2016 The Hyderabad Literary Festival.

2010 83 Annual Art Exhibition AIFACS New Delhi .

2009 State Level Art Competition At State Art Gallery, Hyderabad .

2007 Bombay Art Society Exhibition .

2006 Annual Exhibition Sir J J School Of Art Mumbai, (Maharashtra).

2005 Mudra Education Trust, State Level Landscape Competition At Lonavala.

2005-2006 Annual Art Exhibition At Sir J J School Of Art Mumbai, (Maharashtra).

2000-2004 Kala Mahotsav At Mmk College Of Visual Art, Kalaburgi.

Awards: th 2022 50 Annual Art Exhibition Karnataka Lalithakala Acadamy Bengaluru, Karnataka.

2020 Merit Certificate Award At Nadoja J.S Khanderao Pratishthana Kalaburgi, Karnataka.

2007 Hyderabad Art Society Award Hyderabad.

2005 Master Dinanath Mangeshkar Prize Annual Exhibition At Sir J J School Of Art Mumbai.

2002 Best Outdoor Drawing 16th Kala Mahotsav Mmk College Of Visual Art Kalaburgi.

1997 Swarna Patra Puraskar At Child Art Festival, Hyderabad.

1995 Gold Medal Organised by Young Enways International At Hyderabad.

Solo Show:

2025 Survivor an Exhibition of Drawing and Assemblages at Ttiveni art gallery New Delhi 2024 Atelier an Exhibition of painting at Organized at India International Center Annexe New Delhi 2018 Dissimilar Exhibition Of Wooden Assemblage At Iconart Gallery Hyderabad.

2017 Atelier Iconart Gallery Hyderabad .

2015 Hands Of Time Ailamma Art Gallery Hyderabad .

2011 No Man's Land Iconart Gallery Hyderabad.

2010 My Baby And Others Iconart Gallery Hyderabad .

2010 Learning Things Hotel Taj Krishna At Hyderabad .

2005 Vibgyor Exhibition Of Painting At Chitramayee State Art Gallery Hyderabad .

Group Show: th 2024 20 Anniversary Celebrations “State of Joy” at State art Gallery Hyderabad.

2023 BLA-K 3G Exhibition at Lalit Kala Academy Bhubaneswar Odisha 2023 Narrative Of Here And Now State Art Gallery Hyderabad.

2022 Two Men Show At Jehangir Art Gallery Mumbai.

2020 White Rose Presents Green Dreams Online Exhibition of Art. 2020 'Covid Expressions 'Art Exhibition At Iconart Gallery Hyderabad.

2019 Save Tiger - Mask, Exhibition At Tao Art Gallery Mumbai .

2016 The Atelier In Common At Daira Centre Of Art And Culture Hyderabad.

2016 Flame Flash Fliker & Split And Bound At Icone Art Gallery .

2014 Second Structure Abstract Show At Icon Art Gallery.

2014 Hyderabad Art Fair At Jntu Hyderabad .

2012 Abstract Art At Gallery Beyond Mumbai.

2012 Art Jamboree At Daira Center Of Art And Culture Hyderabad.

2011 Hyderabad Artists Muse Art Gallery Marriott Hotel .

2010 Self And City Maya Art Gallery Bangalore.

2010 Self And City Kalakriti Art Gallery Hyderabad, Jehangir Art Gallery Mumbai.

2009 In Essence Minimal Art Exhibition At Icon Art Gallery Hyderabad.

2008 Essence Of Nature At Art Mastors, New Delhi And Gallery Space At Hyderabad.

2008 Verve An Exhibition Of Painting At Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur.

2007 August Window Kalahitha Art Gallery Hyderabad.

2006 Shrishti Art Gallery Hyderabad.

2003 Vibgyor Art Exhibition Sponsored by Karnataka Lalit Kala Academy Bangalore at Udupi, Karnataka.

2002 Vibgyor Art Exhibition At Mmk College Of Visual Art, Gulbarga (Karnataka).

Residency: 2023 International Artist Residency In October at Farm Studio Andore Rajasthan India.

Camps: 2024 Shifting landscape of Telangana Organized by Chitramayee State Art Gallery Hyderabad.

2024 Jummu and Kashmir Academy of Art, Culture and Languages Jummu at JK House New Delhi,

2023 Rani Durgavathi Online Art Camp By Lalit Kala Academi, Ministry Of Culture Governmenr Of India New Delhi 2023 Abhivyakti National Painting & Sculpture Workshop At Graphic Era Hill University Dehradun Uttarakhand.

2022 Kavari Ganga Sangam, National Art Camp Organized By Karnataka Lalit Kala Academy Bangalore And Uttar Pradesh Lalit Kala Academy At Srirangapatna Mysuru Karnataka 2021 Kshirsagar-Apte Foundation (Kaf) Online Painting Arts Grant Mumbai.

2020 Online Painting Camp Organized By South Central Zone Cultural Centre Nagpur.

2018 National Wood Carving Symposium At Lal Bag Organised By Shilpa Kala Academy Bangalore.

2016 4th Artist Camp “Indradhanush” Organized By State Bank Of India Hyderabad.

2016Vishnu Manchu Art Foundation, Art Symposium At Tirupati A.P. 2009 Conceptual Art Camp Organized By Lalit Kala Academy Regina Center Chennai At Mavelikara Kerala.

2008 Alumni Art Camp At MMK College of Fine Art Kalaburgi .

2003 Creative Participant In 8th National Art Festival Kalahari Nayas Ujjain (Mp).

2002 7th Karnataka Kala Mela At Venkatappa Art Gallery Bangalore .

Special thanks to Artist Friends Dr. Ved Prakash Bhardwaj, Surjit kumar and Dipa patowary