This exhibition is about the effect technology has on our lives, and on art
This exhibition is about the effect technology has on our lives, and on art
Google has become a part and
parcel of our lives. So much so, that we can't imagine life without the search engine which brings every knowledge to our fingertips. 
What we see is not what they see by Riyas Komu
Our lanes, our roads, our cities, everything is mapped on Google Earth. Not just the search engine, our entire lives have become dependent on technology. And it's not just everyday lives which are being affected by technology, art too, is being influenced now. That is what this show, Tech-Cut-Edge Revelation, by four artists -- Riyas Komu, Baiju Parthan, Chintan Upadhyay and Sunil Gawde -- is all about.
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It's all about ideas
"This is all about ideas that constitute our world, with the emphasis on technological changes that modify our perception and in turn change the way we experience the world, says Parthan. "It is a parody of the 'street view' from Google Earth.
The street views are constantly updated snapshots of streetsu00a0 in major cities across the world that can be accessed once logged into Google Earth," he adds. The paintings on display offer myriad views of the street, mostly in grey and black, with bursts of colour thrown in. The artist is referring to how our experience of the earth has changed from flat earth to planet earth and now to Google Earth.
Rediscover yourself
Sunil Gawde has displayed a sculpture, a huge magnifying glass titled Arrival-Departure, mirror finished in stainless steel. The idea is that standing before it a viewer finds his own reflection which would act as a haunting metaphor for self discovery as he engages in the overlapping processes of seeing, losing and finally
rediscovering.
Artist Chintan Upadhyay's works are digitised versions of a child -- Many Chintu's in a meeting where four babies are fused together with colourful imagery done on their bodies and Chintu Cloned (see picture).
Upadhyay wants to focus on technology being the new genocide. "It's the new hybrid cultural mixture, cloned with varying cultural branding," says the artist.
Being photographic
"The new series of work made out of photographs will represent the multiple layers of liking we see in our society, especially in relation to an artist's practice. I have always seen photography as a medium to incorporate facts in my works and I have extended the idea into painting.
In our current art context especially in my practice I have experienced the disrespectful comment made towards a system financially dominated by painting, which has been surviving the art world," says Komu who has displayed three works under the title What We see is not what they see.
"These works argue, sarcastically, the blind infatuation people have towards the material of painting where context doesn't matter," he adds. Go check out the paintings to see what effect technology has on today's artists.u00a0
At: ashna gallery, 369 crc building, mg road
On till: february 10
Timings: 11 am to 7 pm
Ring: 64644390
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