The art aficionados of the city were amazed to watch an incredible work of paper art on canvas.
A young artist Rahul Solanki has put up the collection of his art work at Alliance Francaise de Bhopal art gallery. The solo exhibition ‘Reminiscence’ began here from Saturday.
Based at Indore, Rahul Solanki, has been working as an artist since 2004. He was the winner of Best Jury Award in professional category in Camel Art Foundation, 2014 and Euro Art Tour from Camel Art Foundation , 2014.
His work is inspired by contemporary art. An active painter, he is very well known for painting the Indian art in the country. Talking about his work, Rahul said, “The medium of my work is paper collage. My work is created with fragments of paper and recycled imagery collected from my daily life and wanderings. My works on paper help me piece together the past and make up the parts I cannot know.”
He further said, “I am especially intrigued with colors, textures, shapes, and negative spaces in everyday materials. Each collage begins with a premise or simply an evocative piece of paper. The technique I use is tearing off small bits of paper and gluing them layer by layer to create forms. like a puzzle, the composition evolves one piece at a time. I continue to tear, rip, or otherwise manipulate possible elements, making decisions about what works and what is needed next to complete the work. A wet working technique eventually melds the palette of re-purposed papers together into fresh, layered imagery with new associations and meanings that reflect my interest in concepts of time, balance, movement, and growth.”
As he told more about his work he emphasised over the type of papers he uses that includes Hahnemuhle, arches, tissue, construction, lokta, and others.
“I have always been attached with past and present events, changing conditions, interactions by discovering their own unique orbits and balancing them,” he added.