Medardo Teuntor Albóniga

Medardo Teuntor Albóniga, was born on September 29, 1958 in Havana, Cuba. In 1960 his family emigrated to the province of Matanzas, at the age of twelve he presented himself to a free call that allowed him to enter the José Juaquin School of Fine Arts. Roof of Santiago de Cuba. A year later he moved to the Matanzas School of Fine Arts, until 1976, when he finished his elementary level studies. In September of the same year he joined the XX Anniversary Brigade of Art Instructors for 12 years, and in 1980 he served as president of the Hermanos Saiz Association. In 1982 he graduated as a specialist in Plastic Arts in the specialty of painting and drawing. He practiced as an art teacher in the Cuban Fishing Fleet in Peru. On the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua and in the Atlantic Ocean, Isla Sal. From 1990 to 1992, he worked as a professor of painting and drawing at the School of Fine Arts in Bukina Faso West Africa. In 1998 he assumed the presidency of the Council of Plastic Arts of Matanzas until 2001 and the same year he was designated an honorary member of the Cuban Association of Artisan Artists. Subsequently, he worked as a Matanzas Plastic Arts Methodologist at the House of Culture of the Matanzas Province. As an illustrator for books, magazines and children's stories, for the magazines Ideas, Revolución y Cultura, and La Tortola de Matanzas.
The Artist's Works that have been present in different national and international salons have been awarded multiple awards.

An article on the artist by Bindu P V in Prasadakan Monthly

The artist in creative process

A self portraiture work

Spanish Translation:

Medardo Teuntor Albóniga, nació el 29 de septiembre de 1958 en La Habana, Cuba. En 1960 su familia emigró a la provincia de Matanzas, a los doce años se presentó a una convocatoria gratuita que le permitió ingresar a la Escuela de Bellas Artes José Juaquin. Techo de Santiago de Cuba. Un año después se traslada a la Escuela de Bellas Artes de Matanzas, hasta 1976, cuando finaliza sus estudios de nivel elemental. En septiembre del mismo año ingresó a la Brigada XX Aniversario de Instructores de Arte por 12 años, y en 1980 se desempeñó como presidente de la Asociación Hermanos Saiz. En 1982 se graduó como especialista en Artes Plásticas en la especialidad de pintura y dibujo. Ejerció como profesor de arte en la Flota Pesquera Cubana en Perú. En la Costa Atlántica de Nicaragua y en el Océano Atlántico, Isla Sal. De 1990 a 1992, trabajó como profesor de pintura y dibujo en la Escuela de Bellas Artes de Bukina Faso, África Occidental. En 1998 asumió la presidencia del Consejo de Artes Plásticas de Matanzas hasta 2001 y ese mismo año fue designado miembro de honor de la Asociación Cubana de Artistas Artesanos. Posteriormente, se desempeñó como Metodólogo de Artes Plásticas de Matanzas en la Casa de la Cultura de la Provincia de Matanzas. Como ilustradora de libros, revistas y cuentos infantiles, para las revistas Ideas, Revolución y Cultura y La Tortola de Matanzas.

Las Obras de Artista que han estado presentes en diferentes salones nacionales e internacionales han sido premiadas con múltiples premios.

 

Sculptures of Ritesh Rajput C

Shirts and T shirts by Ritesh Rajput C for sale

T shirts by Ritesh Rajput C for sale

Sale - Shirts by Ritesh Rajput C. [You may contact Ritesh, before the stock runs out at +919740287208]

"Hmm! which shirt will look good on my father?" Ok, the white one is ok for my dad. But .... 

But ...

But ...

Jokes apart ...

Well when I opened Ritesh’s email the photos of shirts and shoes of a pavement sale ambience is what titillated the curator to pick these works. A Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayyajirao University passout cannot forget the lawn near the Sculpture Department. It was just this ambience that gave away Ritesh’s clever deceptive works which makes an onlooker rub eyes if they were told that these works are not cloth but stones like marble!. 

Rajput Ritesh C. did his Masters in Visual arts in Sculpture from MSU, Baroda in 2016. He has received award such as the Mahendra Pandya Award – 2012, Jairam Patel Award – 2012, National Exhibition of Art CVM – 2015, Gujarat Lalitkala – 2015 and India Art award – 2017. His works are present in Delhi, Bhopal, Baroda, Israel.

Sweets too, Ritesh?

Ritesh’s practice explores the possibilities of the materials he is interested in. He constantly reorients the apparent characteristics, make and rigidity of surfaces like marble, metal and stones rendering a sense of ductility and malleability to it. His works then are labourous reproductions, ‘manufactured’ just like the original utility objects he chooses – shoes, slippers, garments and toys among a bevy of commercial consumer goods. He sets his sculptural installations in spaces that are general stapling his work to the ‘working class households’ and their ‘utilities’.
Ritesh reappropriates context and thus explore mediums and their possibilities, using them as metaphors for the common man and his materials. His practice can be understood as one that is material oriented, where he constantly re-orients the materials to make new identities and meanings taken from everyday life. Here I significantly work with utility objects that make it to smaller, more accessible markets such as flea markets and unorganized bazaars – where the fresh and the used – form affordability for most of middle class India. Ritesh intuitively react to an experience turning them into a memoir in the form of my art. Toys then are a constant metaphor to act of playing that comes in the form of visual, weight and interactivity in his works. He tries to manipulate the original iconography of the medium say for example stone and construct new objects that are almost the opposite of this iconography – a T-shirt for example – light, stretchable, loose and flexible. This re-identification is core to his inquiry where he constant try to access the emotions of the audience such as wonder, joy and shock when they interact with Ritesh’s sculptures. His colour palette is an echo of the colour trends of the market and the market as a symbol of multicultural existences; and is thereby loud and pop catching the eye. The themes of his practice are largely derived from the society around us and its realities depicted in the sense of weight and matter – like an small piggy bank carrying a large 1/100-rupee coin. His intended visual cursors are the senses of sight and touch leading to a certain element of fun.
Ritesh work to create a large body of the same objects to understand both demand and production, and deal with the idea of the artist ‘manufactured’. This mass production in itself forms my space of thought where his main focus is to make his chosen material look like another altogether. Ritesh’s process includes researching on the site, where he begins by observing and documenting shops, stalls, objects and people. His practice strives to catch the technical aspects, as well as the essence of a space or an object. This has not only helped him curate his ideas, objects and thereby his sculptures. Ritesh is now working with site-specific installations recreating places that people can visit and interact with.

Balan Thanur

Paintings and Linocut prints of Shalini Patel

Shalini Patel, an artist from Vadodara; cordially invites you to her exhibition of paintings and linocuts; from 17th March to 20th March 2016 at the White Sanctum Art Gallery, Bengaluru. The exhibition will be inaugurated by the renowned artist Shri. T M Aziz. Shalini has an M.A. in (Fine arts- Painting) from M.S. University of Baroda, Vadodara. She conducted many solos and group shows in India and abroad. She is a student of Padmavibhooshan K G Subramaniyan. She has done her junior cultural scholarship under the guidance of renowned artist Late Shri. Bhupen Khakkar for 3 years. 

Pic: Artist Shalini Patel

Shalini Patel comes up with a body of her latest works: paintings and lino-prints in which she mirrors the nature around her where she is rooted. She has brought 20 Lino- prints and 20 paintings for this exhibition of her works. As Antony Joseph Nangelimalil puts it "Her works give a call from behind to turn back to nature, to which each one really belongs. Her works give an invite to immerse in the warmth of nature, to which once each one has to submerse. Her works give a sober counsel to be in harmony with the nature.".

Pic: Shalini Patel's Banana leaf series and other paintings in display

Pic: Shalini Patel's Lino cut prints in display at White Sanctum Art Gallery

Linocut is a printmaking technique, a variant of woodcut in which a sheet of linoleum (sometimes mounted on a wooden block) is used for therelief surface. A design is cut into the linoleum surface with a sharp knife, V-shaped chisel or gouge, with the raised (uncarved) areas representing a reversal (mirror image) of the parts to show printed. The linoleum sheet is inked with a roller (called a brayer), and then impressed onto paper or fabric. The actual printing can be done by hand or with a press. The stark contrast of Linocuts attracted the artist to it’s beauty. With the advance of technology Linocut usages have diminished. 

- Bindu P V

Lino Cut

ABOUT LINOCUTS

Linocut is a graphic technique where the sharp instruments are used to cut into the lino surface. With printing ink and rollers the surface is covered. Paper is then placed on the Lino and run through the printing press. The results are limited edition prints and the print number can be figured out from the bottom of the print [for eg: 1/3 would mean the first print of the 3 prints taken for that design].

Pic: Artist Shalini Patel's Lino cut prints in display at White Sanctum Art gallery

As Wikipedia puts it :"It is a printmaking technique, a variant of woodcut in which a sheet of linoleum (sometimes mounted on a wooden block) is used for the relief surface. A design is cut into the linoleum surface with a sharp knife, Vshaped chisel or gouge, with the raised (uncarved) areas representing a reversal (mirror image) of the parts to show printed. The linoleum sheet is inked with a roller (called a brayer), and then impressed onto paper or fabric. The actual printing can be done by hand or with a press. ". With the advance of technology Linocut usages have diminished. 

VCHITRAA - Iam you

What is VCHITRAA?
A series of creative efforts, including exhibitions related to social issues like gender issues, ecological issues etc. The selection of name comes as a often scorned attitude against a woman who tries to speak out against issues etc. with statements that can be literally translated like "you are a strange animal" etc. Vchitram/ Vchitraa means strange one. We believe the power of knowledge and broader thinking will remove the darkness caste by social evils. No change happens in a day or maybe even years. But it will never happen if we don't even try.

Where will it be conducted?
Any place, where we get the availability of space and we can manage the expenditure :)
We prefer this more on the rural and tribal areas, as they hardly get opportunities for educated thought process or get chance to view art forms etc.

Who finances?
Self financed, as of now. We wish this endeavour to be devoid of any political or religious colouring; as this is focused at sheer equalizing of genders through science, technology and art.

A few news articles of the exhibition:

For purchasing the digital art works, writings available under VCHITRAA series: The sole dealer of the works is White Sanctum Art Gallery.

It's been a year ...

White Sanctum art gallery was built with a realitistic though of being available to artists and artlovers alike; with availability economical and copyrighted artworks for the artlover round the year; with a easy and economical rental etc. 124 artists had exhibited their works in the gallery, as part of the group shows conducted in White Sanctum art gallery in the year 2015. The works of most of these artists are available for sale also through the gallery website www.whitesanctum.com   Workshops and art classes too are conducted here. Some of these workshops conducted for the propagation of some rare art forms like Mandana etc. are conducted free for children and elders.

In year 2016 gallery plans to conduct shows focused on social themes; as the curator Bindu P V feels that social themes and aesthetics can go hand in hand. As part of this thought process, a show titled "VCHITRAA - Iam you" will be conducted in various rural/tribal areas during the first half of the year. The show starts from 20th January 2016 from Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala state. White Sanctum Art Gallery and Bindu P V wish the first anniversary of the gallery to be held, along with the people in far away villages and tribal areas where art in form of an exhibition, hardly reaches. We thank God, and all our well wishers who helped us sail through our formative phase and the first year of our existence.

-Bindu P V
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