Artist Pooja Aggarwal presents her first solo, The Third Dimensions, a series of 15 3D paintings that mirrors the landmarks of the cityscape and her surroundings. By Team Viva
Artist Pooja Aggarwal diverts from the traditional treatment of flat canvas and creates three-dimensional forms that seems to break the limits of the frame. She expresses her thoughts using novel 3D techniques on an organic wooden surface, using acrylic and oil colours, in her latest exhibition, The Third Dimensions.
Each painting reflects dimensions of her life as they unfold — a kind of a diary. These paintings belong to a series of works that re-imagine landmarks by staging a virtual event that would alter the viewer’s memory, suggesting how the virtual could affect and alter the real.
She explains, “Art in the broadest sense is a form of communication. In my art, I first make a broad sketch of what I want to convey and then get into the minute details to make it more impactful. My art is a literature born of my thoughts. It’s like documentation of your own feelings, inspiration and progress. The subject matters could be my surroundings or something which I have encountered during my travel or any memory.”
The idea of being able to move things around within the space of the mind is a magical power that we as human beings possess. This inspired her to highlight the uniqueness and individuality of the expressions. Thus, she paints her meditation series titled The Path Within and Circles of Life. Her perspective is reflected in her paintings that represents space and provides an illusion of depth while creating a 3D world for the viewer. Thus, another one of the paintings has been aptly named Gullibility of Human Senses.
Pooja discovers that 3D can convey a lot more by implying movement towards our ideals. The intriguing part of the paintings is that those parts of the picture which seem farthest away are actually physically the nearest to the viewer, similar to what we discover during meditation. She says, “These paintings created on a 3-dimensional surface give an amazing optical illusion where the parts of the picture which seem farthest away are actually physically the nearest. This surface provides a powerful and often disorienting impression of depth and movement. As the viewer walks by the painting put up at eye level, the composition seems to move with him/her and shows how gullible human senses can be.”
(The exhibition is on from March 6 and runs till March 12 at All India Fine Arts and Society.)