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Shobha Broota
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"I think that society needs to respect, understand and appreciate art as a medium of expression, which contributes to its aesthetic growth. An artist helps society see the finer aspects of living.
Since an artist enriches society by her unique aesthetic contribution, she expects that society be prepared to provide her sufficient help to fulfill her creative urge. Society should not expect an artist to explain her works, as her language...
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"I think that society needs to respect, understand and appreciate art as a medium of expression, which contributes to its aesthetic growth. An artist helps society see the finer aspects of living.
Since an artist enriches society by her unique aesthetic contribution, she expects that society be prepared to provide her sufficient help to fulfill her creative urge. Society should not expect an artist to explain her works, as her language is visual. An artist has a peculiar language, her own perception and unique reaction to experiences in life. I expect society to respect an artist for her thinking, appreciate her for her expression as she is translating her perception in her own language. I expect society to be tolerant and sensitive to an artist’s novel expressions.
I also feel that society should promote art and help an artist display her work in homes and places of interest to enable people seek visual delight. Creation of artifacts has been the preoccupation from times immemorial and this should continue."
Shobha Broota, teacher at Triveni Kala Sangam in Delhi, and hailing from a family rich in artistic traditions, is one of India’s most well established contemporary artists. Her husband is the artist Rameshwar Broota and their daughter Pooja Iranna and her husband GR Iranna are artists as well.
In her long pursuit of a fulfilling expressive and artistic conception, Shobha Broota has passed through and experienced a lot of changes in her subject, media and style. She has painted various things, including portraits of men and women, more abstracted human forms, the forms of birds, animals and insects as well as the different elements of nature, namely earth, water, air and fire.
Art critic Keshav Malik says of her oeuvre and of her recent show ‘Music of the Spheres’ that, "Shobha’s works, in whatever medium, do not overtly claim any whiff of holiness. Not at all. Rather they are her effort to understand and work within the boundaries of an age-old convention, that have the basic harmony or purity of the underlying reality, as of inner reality.
The discipline, preparation, effort, contemplation, as the musical sense of the inner ear, that have gone into these works is palpable and one would not even dare to sum it up or even outline it. Still it must suffice to say that a lifetime of close attention lies behind each of the works shown, quite apart from the training in the fundamental skills of geometry, drawing and colour."
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Born
1943
New Delhi
Education
1964 Diploma in Painting, College of Art, New Delhi
Exhibitions
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2008 ‘A Path Beyond’, Aicon...
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2008 ‘A Path Beyond’, Aicon Gallery, Palo Alto
2007 ‘Edge of Infinity’, Indigo Blue Art, Singapore
2006 ‘Song of the Divine’, Pallete Art Gallery, New Delhi
2006 'Music of the Spheres', Birla Academy of Arts and Culture, Kolkata
2003 'Music of the Spheres', Visual Art Gallery, New Delhi
2003 International Studio A.F.W.A, Fermantle, Australia
1997 'Retrospective of Prints', Art Konsult, New Delhi
1997 Edith Cowen University, Perth
1994 ABC Gallery, Varanasi
1994 Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
1994 Gallery 42, New Delhi
1992 Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London
1992 Schoo's Gallery, Amsterdam
1992 Aakkar Gallery, Chandigarh
1985 Aakkar Gallery, Chandigarh
1964,74,78,80,84,88,89,91,92,97 New Delhi
Selected Group Exhibitions
2009 'Navarasas', Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata
2009 'Some Iceberg Easy to Avoid', Bose Pacia, New York
2009 'Moderns and More', Aicon Gallery, Palo Alto
2008 'Dus Mahavidyas: Ten Creative Forces', presented by Gallerie Nvya at Visual Art Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
2008 'Frame Figure Field: 20th Century Modern and Contemporary Indian Art', Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi
2008 'Contradictions and Complexities: Contemporary Art From India', d.e.n. contemporary art and Western Project, Culver City
2007 '25 Contemporary Indian Artists', Organized by Nicolas Vourriaud and Ravi Kumar at Paris and throughout Russia including Moscow
2007 'Resonance', Fifty Years of Lalit Kala Academy, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
2007 ‘Surfaces and Textures’, organized by Gallery Espace, New Delhi and Ganges Art at Ganges Art, Kolkata
2007 ‘Diverse Voices’, Galleria, Hong Kong
2006 '’Opening Show’, Chor Bizaarre Gallery, London
2005 'Joie De Vivre', Art Konsult, New Delhi
2005 ' Roop Vidhan', Expression of Abstract, Art Alive, New Delhi
2005 ' Weaving Legacy', Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
2005 'Negotiating Matters', Anant Art Gallery, New Delhi
2005 ' Spirit of the Century', Kumar Art Gallery, New Delhi
2004 'Meditative Abstacts', New Delhi
2004-05 'Devotional Breach', Sumukha Gallery, Bangalore
2004,05 ‘Spirit of the Century’, Kumar Art Gallery, New Delhi
2003 'Solitude, The White Show', Visual Art Gallery, New Delhi
2003 Kerala Lalit Kala Academy Collection Show, Calicut
2003 'India - Korea', New Delhi and Seoul
2002, 03, 05 Kaleidoscope, Singapore
1999 'Abstract Schematic', Nature Morte, New Delhi
1998 ‘Symbolism and Geometry in Modern Art’, National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), New Delhi
1998 International Artists, IASG (Washington DC), New Delhi
1998 ‘Small’, James Harvey, Sydney
1998 ‘Indian Artists’, Vedanta Gallery, Chicago
1997 ‘Chhoo Mantar’, Exhibition of Magenetic Art, Art Konsult, New Delhi
1995 ‘Abstarct’ 95’, Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata
1994 ‘Contemporary Miniatures’, Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata
1994 ‘100 Years of Indian Art’, National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), New Delhi
1992 ‘Art for The Fairer World’, organized by Oxfam at Glasgow, Cardiff, London
1992 ‘Balder Aus Indien’, Hamburg
1991 'Soul Catchers', Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London
1991 Indian Artists, Lotus Gallery, Amsterdam
1991 ‘9 Contemporary Indian Artists’, Gemeetemuseum Arnhem, Netherlands
1991 ‘ILSud Del Mondol’, Gallery Civica D’Arte, Marsala, Palermo, Milano, Italy
1990 ‘Malaysian Experience / Malaysian Images’, National Gallery of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur
1990 ‘The Ambassadors Choice’, from the collection of E. M. Schoo, National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), New Delhi
1990 ‘Contemporary Prints’, Melbourne
1988 Gallery Art and Data, Frankfurt
1986 ‘Women Artists’, organized by National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA) at Poland, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and Sahitya Kala Parishad, New Delhi
1984 Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Participations
2011 ‘Manifestations V', Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi
2010 ‘Manifestations IV', Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi
2008 'Harvest 2008', organized by Arushi Arts at The Stainless Gallery, New Delhi
2007 ‘Indian Color’, organized by Nature Morte and Vadehra Gallery, New Delhi at Keumsan Gallery, Seoul for South Korea Art Fair
2006 ‘Harmony Show’, Nehru Centre, Mumbai
2005 'Palette 2005- Part I’, Palette Art Gallery, New Delhi
2005 Annual Show, Art Motif, New Delhi
2003,04 Annual Show, Palette Art Gallery, New Delhi
1994 ’40 Indian Artists’, Tiazcala, Mexico
1993 ‘Indische Gegenwarskunst’, Mainz, Germany; Szczecin, Poland
1993 ‘5th Tudatusaag’, Budapest
1991 ‘Festival of India’, Dermstadt
1990 3rd International Asian - European Art Biennale, Turkey
1986,83 International Print Biennale, Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal
1986,94 6th and 8th International Triennale, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
1982 2nd Biennale, Dhaka
1980 International Biennale, Cuba
1975 International Women Artists, New Delhi
Honours and Awards
1996-98 Fellowship, Ministry of Culture, Government of India
1990 Artist in Residence, Malaysian Experience / Malaysian Images, Kuala Lumpur
1989-92 Senior Fellowship, Ministry of Education, Government of India
1986 Sahitya Kala Parishad, New Delhi
1982-84 Scholarship, Ministry of Culture, Government of India
1982 All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society (AIFACS), New Delhi
1996-98 Fellowship, Ministry of Culture, Government of India
1990 Artist in Residence, Malaysian Experience / Malaysian Images, Kuala Lumpur
1989-92 Senior Fellowship, Ministry of Education, Government of India
1986 Sahitya Kala Parishad, New Delhi
1982-84 Scholarship, Ministry of Culture, Government of India
1982 All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society (AIFACS), New Delhi
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