Surrendra Pal Joshi
1958
Born Dehradun , India
1985
Completed Bachelor of Fine Arts from Arts & Crafts College , Lucknow
1990
Award – asian Cultural Centre for Unesco , Japan
1994
Solo Exhibition – Jehangir Art Gallery , Mumbai
All India Award – Rajasthan Lalit Kala Academy
1997
Solo Exhibition – Taj Art Gallery, Mumbai
Solo Exhibition – Berllanderi , Cardiff U.K.
Mural Design – Indian Oil Corporation’s head Office , Yusaf Sarai , New Delhi
Award – Fellowship for Mural Design by British Arts Council & Charles Wallace Trust Wales , Cardiff , U.K.
1999
Solo Exhibition – Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
Solo Exhibition – Academy of Fine Art & Literature , New Delhi
2000
Solo Exhibition – Taj Art Gallery , Mumbai
Mural Design Hindustan Lever , Head Office , church Gate , Mumbai
Award Gold Medal Unesco , Repalli
2003
Solo Exhibition – Jehangir Art Gallery , Mumbai
Group Show – ‘ Perfomance Textures ’ organized by Indian Habitat Centre & Appararo Gallery New Delhi
2004
Solo Exhibition – Jaipur International Virasat Festival , Rajputana Sheraton , Jaipur
Award – National Award , Kendriya Lalit Kala Academy , New Delhi
All India Award – U.P Lalit Kala Academy Lucknow
2005
Mural Design – J.N.T.U College of Fine Art , Hyderabad
Group Show – Contemporary Art Exhibition , Rangoon , Myanmar.
Organized by Central Lalit Kala Academy , New Delhi
Studies / Travels / Currently
U.K France and Holland
Continues to be a lecturer at the Rajasthan School of Art , Painting Department for the past 18 years.
Surendra Pal Joshi
……Tana bana – the warp and the weft conjure imagery of textiles, but in Surendra Joshi’s work they move into another realm, i. e. of texture. Joshi has always been fascinated by the tactile quality of surfaces. That perhaps is one of the reasons why he moves so easily between painting, drawing, sculpture and mural. The one constant leitmotif in his art practice has been his engagement with complex confluences.
His passion has been the art of murals, and it is a preoccupation that find its way into his more recent works. A cerebral soft – spoken gentleman, Surendra Pal Joshi’s artwork is a mirror to the introspection and reflections an inherent part of his personality.
His work is meticulous and time consuming, demanding exacting patience and an eye for painstaking detail. Texture has long been his preoccupation and as a master of patchwork and montage he creates images that are serene and evocative by turn. Raw canvas, buttons, threads, nuts, acrylic paint block prints and drawings combine layer and fuse to form a crossword of squares and triangles, each piece coming together with perfect texture harmony. Sections of raw canvas are cut into shapes as suiting the temperament of the piece; the edges painstakingly unraveled to reveal the warp and weft of the canvas. The individual pieces are then assembled onto the surface of a larger stretch of canvas.
Surendra Joshi quite literally employs texture to ‘construct’ his works of art, defined by the number and variety of media, techniques and materials used in performance, as well as to the number of parts working together to produce the overall visual web. The almost jigsaw like quality of the whole allows Surendra to explore the potential of mélange and collage to a remarkable degree.
……The materiality of the canvas becomes of paramount importance while the juxtaposition of the ‘level’ surface of the canvas with the thread bare and jagged creates a fresh and exciting textural surface. A restrictive palette be it white, cream, yellow or umber, van dyke and sienna works with the natural color of the raw canvas to fashion a surface that does not distract but rather serves to focus attention on the surface qualities and articulates much of the artist’s sense of design and sensitivity to detail. Squares, triangles and rectangles rub shoulders unerringly with the more delicate drawings and tracings of the block prints of Bagru. Bits of thread fall across the surface linking the variegated surfaces while adding to the rich textural surface. His art practice would be difficult to define or bracket as it encompasses and combines everything from painting to assemblage and installation. Layers are created, suggested and revealed, a perfect of the two and three – dimensional.
His most recent canvases in many ways are a culmination of his initial ideas honed and translated into mixed media art works. His colors too have acquired a depth and maturity mirroring an autumnal quality. They reflect his peripatetic journey, which has been colorful, varied and serpentine.
Alka Pande
Weaving texture and textile
The show by an artist, who has used texture and textile in the past to create his works, is then an attempt to rededicate itself continuously to a revolutionary impulse that translates texture into the tonality of the canvas, even if this should involve it in a perennial cycle of breaking and re – shaping and recreating. Just like the timeless structures of the past that become a feature of the present, like monuments in history that become iconic references, the different tonalities in the works refuse to be quietly continuous with the present; they mark them within their own structure and the address it makes to its potential audience, we are perhaps left with the rupture that distinguishes it from what went before and we are able to sift and sieve what will come thereafter.
If you look at the phases in this collection the elements first concentrate, they throb and crowed the canvasses and then they seem to vanish into thin air. After that act of vanishing, what is left the texture in its evanescent ephemeral feel. The art of the minimalist mood for Surendra is not a realized and maintained.
In some ways Surendra’s work is an attempt to explore new modes of production and distribution, reflecting in some ways the conditions of artistic practice as currently define within the studios and what results is that his penchant then becomes an art that shares with other image-making practices within the broader domain of expressive culture.
This art then in large and small series seeks to celebrate the devices and spaces of the lived idiom it harkens to the age of digital and virtual technology in the repetition of ideology, and also in a way to able to cherish lived in-encounter situations and associations; it also functions on a variety scales, from the in intimacy of the individual aesthetics to the participatory performance in life. Integrally linked to search for new inclinations of sight, sound and touch are placed on offer. The leitmotif on the textural idioms arouses an unbridled pleasure; it leads, invariably, to an addictive idiom of continuous stimulation-by-image, a loss of correspondence between real-world imperatives and inner world fantasies.-
Uma Nair, Art Critic, Asian age
Surendra pal joshi, born 1958 Dehradun, received his bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts with first class & first position From Arts & crafts college, Lucknow University –Lucknow 1985.
Joshi has already exhibited his work in over 15 solo shows and has participated in an equal number of group exhibitions and workshops.
He has received a number of awards, including Merit Scholarship by college of art – Lucknow 1980-85. Scholarship of U.P State Lalit kala Academy- Lucknow 1986-88. Award in annual exhibition of Arts & craft college- Lucknow 1982. asian cultural centre for unesco, japan1990. All India Award, South cultural central zone – Nagpur 1991. Rajasthan Lalit Kala Academy Award 1992. All India Award, Rajasthan Lalit Kala Academy 1994. Fellowship for Mural Design by the British Arts Council Cardiff – U.K. 1997. All India Exhibition, Tilak Smarak Trust 2001. Gold Medal, Unesco, Repalli2000. National Award, Lalit Kala Academy – new Delhi 2004. All India Award, U.P. Lalit Kala Academy – Lucknow 2004.
Mural Design: Designed and Executed on IIHMR (665 Sq. ft.Area), Sanganer- Jaipur 1994. Adult Education, Head Office – New Delhi. Rajasthan Pavillion in IITF – New Delhi 1991 Mosaic Mural on Caw bridge Secondary School with pioneers, caradiff – U.K. 1997. Mosaic floor Mural in Myther, with pioneer, Wales – U.K. Large wooden Mural (66x6) on India oil corporations Head office at Yusuf Sarai – New Delhi 1997. Two Mosaic Murals on st. Anselm’s School, Malviya Nagar – Jaipur 1998. Mosaic Murals at Hindustan Lever Head Office, Church Gate – Mumbai 2000. Glass tile Mural for Shapping Corporation of India, at “Swaraj” Ship 1999.
His participation including Festival of India (U.S.A.) 1985. Santica Art Gallery, KOBE – Japan 1993. India Art exhibition, Germany 2002. National Exhibition1984, 92,93,94,96 & 2001. Annual Exhibition, Rajasthan Lalit Kala Academy1987, 94. Eminent Artists of India, organized by prayas, at IFACS – New Delhi and authorities. Performative Textures Exhibition organized by India Habitat centre – New Delhi and Apparao Gallery – Chennai 2003. Triennial India 2005. Harmony Show, Reliance industry – Mumbai 2004.
His important collection including U.P.State Lalit Kala Academy. Rashtriya Lalit Kala Kendra – Lucknow national Academy – New Delhi. National Gallery of Modern Art – New Delhi. Escape Art Gallery – New Delhi. Jaipur Metal and Electricals, Jaipur Information & Public relations Dept. – Lucknow & Allaha bad University. State Agro Industry – Jaipur. Housing board – Jaipur. Sandhan – Jaipur. Ministry of Education – New Delhi. Education Secretary, Govt. of India – New Delhi. Directorate of Adult Education, Govt. of India – New Delhi. Indian Institute of Healthy Management, Sanganer – Jaipur. Rajasthan Lalit Kala Kendra – Jaipur. Indian oil corporation Ltd. – New Delhi. Green field School – Myrther. U.K., South Centre Zone Cultural Centre – Nagpur & Hindustan Lever Mumbai. A.B.C.Academy – Varanasi, U.P. Uni Lever – London, U.K. Uni Lever – Holland. Art Folio – Chandigarh. Reliance Industry – Mumbai.
©copyright2005, artchill.com