By Prashant Salvi
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Prashant Salvi
Leap, Watercolour, Acrylic, Charcoal on Paper
22 x 30 inches, 2016
(shipped in a roll form)
"I have built my career on surrealist,anatomical/botanical fantasies; beautifully rendered yet sometimes haunting and gruesome, void of irony and done with absolute sincerity. My work builds meaning primarily by exploring the unbridgeable difference between animals and people. A proactive imagery of humans and animals suggests an investigation of linguistics, the natural sciences and human sociology all in respect to the parallel universe of other species alongside us. I use a seemingly detached abstraction as a counter-point, tomy- stylised fabrications of sexual desire"- Prashant Salvi
An undercurrent of eroticism, viewed with a steady detachment often can be part of Salvi's works, morphing human and animal forms and throwing psychological riddles challenging the viewer to decide where life begins or ends.
Salvi's watercolours with its technical virtuosity turn images from nature to a surrealistic dance of survival. The works are challenging, complex and magically real and acknowledge life’s gentleness and aggressiveness in unison. While nature’s logic could be used to argue the very existence of an omnipotent creator, Salvi, paradoxically suggests ambiguity to life's bigger and deeper questions; answers of which he feels don't come in neat packages. "
Education : Sir JJ School of Arts , Mumbai
Solo Exhibition
2019 • Haptic, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
2017 • Alter-native, Karnataka Chitrakala Parishad, Bangalore
2014 • Let Every Eye Negotiate for itself. Jahangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
2011 • Lxxxll Pulse, Frankfurth, Germany.
2002 • “Skhalan” Solo Art Gallery, Mumbai.
Group Show
2017/2018 • Busan International Art Fair, Busan, South Koria.
2016 • Axis of Secret Histories /All this comes back, Kochi-Muziris Biennale Collateral Exhibition, Mattancherry.
2014 • Convergence, Vam Art Gallery, Trivendram.
2013 • Small is Beautiful, Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai.
2013 • Oozing, Group Show, Tulika art Gallary, Mumbai
2013 • On Cloud 9, Kala Sanskriti Academy of Fine Arts, New Delhi-2013
2013 • JJ90s –The time of Change, J.J. School of Art,Mumbai
2012 • Indian Art Festival, MMRD Bandra, Mumbai.
2012 • ViVid World, Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai.
2012 • Online, La Sutra Gallery Mumbai.
2011 • Indian Art Festival, Nehru Centre, Mumbai
2010 • Evolve, Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai.
2009 • Indian Contemporary Art, La Sutra Gallery Mumbai.
2008 • Journey, New York Academy of Art, New York 2008.
2008 • Eight Show, Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai.
2008 • Black & White Show, Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai.
2007 • Art Works on Paper, Articulture gallery, Mumbai
2006 • Group Show, Visions Art Gallery, Mumbai
2005 • 10” Harmony Show, Mumbai.
2007 • Luise Sepra International Art Project, Lisbon, Portugal.
2003 • AIFACS Show, Mumbai
2003 • FN-FN,Figurative Narative,Curated by Neville Tuli
2002 • Majority Rules, Free Gallery Galsgow, Curated Letha Wilson.
2001 • BPM Biennial, Bose Pacia Gallery, New York.
2000 • Awareness of Environment, Mumbai.
2000 • Revolution 2000 show, Jahangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
1998 • Bombay Art Society Exhibition, Mumbai.
1993 • Close to nature, Mumbai
1992 • City Bank Art Exhibition, Mumbai.
Award
2018 • Mount Shadow, National Water Colour Camp, Bhavnagar.
2001 • Winner, Bose Paica Emerging Artist Award, New York.
1995 • Solemn Abraham Best Water Colour Portrait...
Category
2010s Contemporary Prashant Salvi Paintings
MaterialsPaper, Acrylic, Watercolor, Charcoal