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An exhibition
of paintings by Mun & Devendra Shukla, organised by InKo Centre,
in association with The Forum Art Gallery, The Park, Chennai,
and Kingfisher Airlines will be on from July 21-31, 2007, in
Chennai.
The exhibition,
'Confluence', showcasing the work of this Korean-Indian couple
offers an interesting opportunity to juxtapose contemporary
Korean and Indian styles in painting even while portraying the
subtle influences that the two cultures have had on these
individual artists.
'Confluence' will be on show from July 21 at
the Forum Gallery, Chennai. The gallery, founded by Shalini
Biswajit in 1997, is a contemporary space which stocks a
comprehensive range of paintings and sculpture promoting more
than a 100 established and emerging artists.
This exhibition is supported by The Park, Chennai, the city's
first luxury boutique hotel, and Kingfisher Airlines, one of the
most dynamic of brands in the Indian aviation industry.
Mun J H Shukla
Mun J H Shukla was born in Korea and is currently a resident of
India. She is an accomplished painter with many solo and group
exhibitions to her credit. With a BFA in Oriental painting from
Hong-ik University, Seoul, a research degree in mural painting
from the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, Mun has also
specialised in lacquer painting during her MFA at the Si Chuan
Art Institute, China.
Mun has exhibited in solo and group shows in Helsinki, Seoul and
New Delhi. Her works exude a rare gusto and her brushstrokes are
both powerful and yet full of abandon.
As a Korean living in India, Mun has absorbed certain vital
cultural idioms and this makes her work both intensely personal
and yet open to inter-cultural dialogue.
Devendra Kumar Shukla
He is a painter inspired by the surrealistic approach and
endeavours to create images that symbolise unconscious thought
processes. With a BFA and MFA from the College of Art in New
Delhi, Devendra has a diploma in commercial art from the Sharda
Ukil School of Art, New Delhi; in art appreciation from the
National Museum of India and a research degree in painting and
new media from the Academy of Fine Art, Finland. He completed a
research project at the Central Institute of Fine Arts, China,
under the bilateral cultural exchange programme initiated by the
Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India.
Devendra has won many national and international awards and
scholarships, has curated international art exhibitions in
India, China and Finland, has edited art books and catalogues
and has lectured and taught on the nuances of art and
spirituality in several countries in Asia and Europe.
Devendra has exhibited in solo and group shows in Finland,
Beijing, Mumbai, New Delhi and Kolkata. With a keen sense of
composition, his paintings are an imaginative mesh of different
motifs, figures and other elements that are intrinsically held
together.
For more details, please contact:
InKo Centre,
No. 51, 6th Main Road,
Raja Annamalai Puram,
Chennai - 600 028.
Ph: 2436 1224
enquiries@inkocentre.org
gomathi@inkocentre.org
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