Released on: December 24, 2007, 3:08 am

Press Release Author: Deepak Gupta

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Press Release Summary: Recently a painting exhibition \'From Russia With Love\' by
Koushal Choudhry was organised at Open Palm Court, India Habitat Center by Rakesh
Gupta (director Canvas Art Gallery). The exhibition will continue till 24th December
at India Habitate Centre and after that it will open for display from 27th December
till 10th January 2008 at Canvas Art Gallery.

Press Release Body: Recently a painting exhibition \'From Russia With Love\' by
Koushal Choudhry was organised at Open Palm Court, India Habitat Center by Rakesh
Gupta (director Canvas Art Gallery). The exhibition will continue till 24th December
at India Habitate Centre and after that it will open for display from 27th December
till 10th January 2008 at Canvas Art Gallery.
The opening ceremony was a grand affair with the presence of Dr. Sergey V. Cherkas
(Deputy Director Russian Centre of Science & Culture, Embassy of the Russian
Federation), NaNa Mgeladze (Second Secretary (Media & Culture) Embassy of Russian
Federation), Maria V. Frolova, Attache (Political) Embassy of Russian Federation),
Painter Koushal Choudhry, Keshav Malik (Sr. Artist), Abhay Rustum Sopori (renowned
Santoor Maestro & Music Composer), Durga Jasraj (Singer & Anchor), Rakesh Gupta
(Director, Canvas Art Gallery), Baljeet Chaddha (Director, Studio Vasant), Victor
Vijay Kumar and others.
The works of Koushal Choudhry are of interest because they combine in themselves two
cultures, that of India and of Russia. His sojourn in Russia has been fruitful, not
as of the usual tourist, but one who has imbibed the especial cultural riches of
that vast land. Thus seen grafted on his artistic spirit are the hues -- not merely
material ones, of the land of the great icons, of the Orthodox Church, of its
distinct literature, and its flora and fauna. This comes about not illustratively,
but by subtle enough nuances.
The fact is that the artist carried something of himself in the northern country, of
steppes and virgin forests. He carried India's lush mythology - that of the India
of the imagination. The Tandav would appear to be branded on his consciousness that
dance at the very heart of India's ancient musings on the universe. Thus comes
movement, eternal movement, and the recurrent cyclic forms.
The strokes, even in his foregoing works are twisting and turnings, the knitting and
un-knitting, the makings and the un-makings: all as if the flaring flames of the
almighty sun. These are the convoluted forms of all material reality as of our own
thoughts and emotions, and indeed seen in the very contours of the trunk of Ganesh
or in the letter Om. All here vibrates. Here is thrill, nothing being ever static.
Well, the artist has caught a vital truth and so he expresses his images in an
incandescent garb. His is therefore no random work, but of the feelings in his
marrow; like the Tandav, the whole of reality spins delirious for him. Any works of
his that is informed by this feel excel, so Ghoomer.
Drawing on an obsessive impulse, he turns his Russian inheritance instinct with the
same feel, even though in a fresh incarnation. His Palekh Golden Oak, Spring, Rainy
Elnomir, Metro Autumn etc are such select vintages, with a blend of the flora of
Russia and the key concept of India. The result is gratifying. Indeed the work
becomes subtler and the mandala form of spring, for instance, evokes the majesty,
which lies at the heart of root reality. In here is a revelation, a brief glimpse,
of that which transcends earthy time.
In these works the artist is seen forging his own artistic profile. Appealing on
the optic plan, these go much beyond, for in them his sensibility refines further.
Paintings are things which require an intellectual appreciation of their qualities,
rather than a direct sensuous reaction, so that the best of this artist's offering
entails a delicate responsiveness - mere learning is not enough.
If we still want a possible access to the springs of artistic creation, it is to the
veins of an artist's life-tree that we must turn to.
On this occasion Keshav Malik said, after all we look up to the best that an artist
has to give, not his abortive efforts. In each artist, as in each human being, are
both gold and chaff. Koushal Choudhry work convinces me, that his golden grain will
get the better of his chaff. I look forward to his next showing in expectancy.


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