My work always resides in the realm of freedom where the artist owns all the infinite riches of the world. A source of permanent delight and excitement because it is from here that one is overwhelmed by the unbound miracle of creative exploration of the world. My works exists somewhere between objects and images. They appear as autonomous, self-contained entities, decidedly abstract, yet expedient devices both in my off-site and site-specific experience. Experienced with mind, they become monumental shapes of space, their opening invite the viewer to become a visitor, physically entering the work of art to experience it not as an object but as a space. The viewer is part of my work. I have always tried to communicate with him by stimulating his memory. The viewer has the right to interpret the work of art, as he likes to make his own work of art. As far as I am concerned, it is enough simply to give him this signal. Just to communicate with him without trying to teach or direct him. I want to bring out the viewers interiors and invisible powers. The invention of the new context seems to me the invention of reality. In other words the radical discovery through these endeavors is the contrast that with the view of the world image presents. Ever since I chanced upon this facet of my persona I realized that art objects no longer represent reality but are by themselves a reality (produced by themselves). Through my works I seek the return of the real, perhaps confronting the question of denying the value of this reality in order to produce a picture of a better world (as perceived before).
George Martin P.J
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Born in 1973, Kerala
EDUCATION
Master of Visual Arts (sculpture), Government College of Art & Craft, Kolkata (1999-2001)
Bachelor of Fine Arts (sculpture), College of Fine Arts, Thiruvanthapuram Kerala (1994-1998)
SOLO SHOWS
2013 Empty Envelops, Palette Art Gallery, New Delhi
2009 Objective voice, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
2008 Cavities,Palette Art Gallery, New Delhi
2007 Lost Article, Visual Art Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
2006 Footloose of Blue Pencil, Bombay Art Gallery, Mumbai
SELECTED PARTICPATION
2020 Art NOW - A Selection, Art Alive Gallery
2019 Art Pilgrim Live @ STIR, Art Pilgrim
2019 12 x 12 Edition One, Art Pilgrim
2018 Looking Beyond, Art Pilgrim
2015 Today silk Road ,International Invitational Exhibition of Fine Arts : ShaanxyiProvince Art Museum Xian , China.
2015 India Art Fair, New Delhi.
2014 Contemporary Contingencies’.Gallery oed Cochin.
Cross Connections – Gallery Art Positive New Delhi.
Tradition & Transitions – INDIA +CHINA: mo:shu/ink:water, Kalakriti Art
Gallery, Hyderabad.
2014 India Art Fair, New Delhi.
2013 Canvas for Life, The OberoiHotel,Gurgaon.
2013 India Art Fair, New Delhi
2012 B-70 Art Show, Nehru Center, Mumbai.
2012 Extending the Line,Vadehara Art Gallery, New Delhi
2012 India Art Fair, New Delhi
2012 Fragile-2, 1X1 Gallery, Dubai
2012 3-Tango,Polka Art, New Delhi
2011 Continuum,Curated by BhavanaKakar, Singapore
2011 Skin Deep,Curated by Johnny M.L., The Viewing Room, Mumbai
2011 Take-2, ArushiArt Gallery, New Delhi.
2011 Red, Palette Art Gallery, New Delhi.
2011 Miniscule Marvel, BMB Contemporary Art Space, Mumbai
2011 Looking Back to Look Forward, Curated by SushmaBehl, VisualArt Gallery, New Delhi
2011 The Annual,Latitude 28 Gallery, New Delhi.
2011 Art Chennai, Represented by Gallery OED, Kochi
2011 What Happens in Mukteshwar,Curated by Johnny ML, W+K EXP, New Delhi
2011 India ArtSummit, New Delhi, represented by Palette ArtGallery, New Delhi
2010 India Awakens—Under the Banyan Tree, Curated byDrAlkaPande,Essel Museum, Vienna, Austria
2010 About Roundabout, City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
2010 Creating CommonWealth, Ragini Art Gallery, New Delhi.
2010 Surviving Sagas, presented by Ashna Gallery, New Delhi at Visual Art Gallery, IHC, New New Delhi.
2010 Untitled-2010, Art Konsult, New Delhi
2010 Snow, Curated by RanjitHoskote, Palette Art Gallery, New Delhi, TAO Art Gallery Mumbai.
2009 Spectrum India, Emirates Palace Hotel, Abu Dhabi.
2009 The Art of India/20 Years of Contemporary Indian Art,Gallery Neumeister/Gallerie Muller & Plate, Munich, Germany
2009 Expression,@ Tihar&IGNCA, New Delhi, by Ojas Art, New Delhi
2009 Beyond the Form, Visual Arts Gallery, IHC, New Delhi & Jahangir Art Gallery, Mumbai,Presented by Bajaj Capital Art House
2009 Resonating Pulse, Alliance Franchise de Delhi,Represented by Latitude 28, New Delhi.
2009 Mining Minds,ChaithanyaGallery, Kochi
2009 Big Dream,Crimson Art Gallery, Bangalore
2009 Metamorphosis—Change and Continuity in Indian Contemporary Art, Phyllis, Weston, Annie BollingGallery, Cincinnati, USA
2009 The Human Animal, Curated by Marta Jakimowicz,represented byReligareArts Initiative&Gallery Threshold, New Delhi.
2009 London Art Fair,represented by Grosvenor Vadehara, London
2009 Hot Shot, The Viewing Room, Mumbai
2008 The Sun Rises in the East—Contemporary Art from India, GalerieChristian Hosp, Tirol/ Austria.
2008 Chaos in Order—Exhibition of Indian Contemporary Art, LalitKala Akademi& Indian Embassy in Vietnam.
2008 Beyond Boundaries, Cork St, London.
2008 Hong Kong Art Fair,VadeharaArt Gallery, New Delhi
2008 Keep Drawing, Gallery Espace New Delhi.
2008 India Art Summit, New Delhi.
2008 Shifting Terrains/Altered Realities, Shrine Gallery &Empire Art, New Delhi
2008 Dubai Art Fair,RepresentingVadeharaArt Gallery, New Delhi
2008 Trends& Trivia,An Indian Story, visual arts centre Hong Kong.
2008 Millennium Turks, Trident Hilton,Gurgaon.
2008 Sandwich,Indo-Australian Group Show, Stainless Gallery, New Delhi
2008 From Surface to Origin: Journeys through Recent Art from India and Thailand, Curated by Brian Curtain, Gallery Soulflower, Bangkok
2007 Images/Urban/Neon, 1X1 Gallery, Dubai, UAE
2007 Object-Making/Unmaking, Vadehara Art Gallery, New Delhi.
2007 10 Light Years, Kashi Art, Kochi.
2007 1st Anniversary Exhibition, Gallery Mirchandani+Steinruecke, Mumbai
2006 Real 2006,India Habitat Centre, New Delhi.
2006 Rock +Music+Art,Group Show organised by Art Resource, Mumbai.
2006 Infinite- Us Unbounded, Planet Arts Gallery, Gurgaon.
2006 Three-men show, Vi-Art Gallery, New Delhi.
2006 Encode-Decode, (Two men show), Palette Art Gallery, New Delhi.
2006 No Square Circle: Drawings by Sculptors,RabindraBhavan, Kolkata and New Delhi.
2006 Shifting Focus, The Air Gallery, London.
2005 The Mouse, Global Art Village, Delhi.
2005 KAVA -1 Award-winners Exhibition, KashiArt Gallery, Kochi
2005 Double-Enders,Curated by Bose Krishnamachari,Jehangir Gallery, Mumbai;Vadehara Art Gallery, New Delhi; Gallery Sumukha, Bangalore and Durbar Hall, Kochi.
Sculpture by the Sea,Bondi 2005, Sydney.
2005 Eternal Recurrence, Hotel Shangri-La, New Delhi.
2004 The Making of India, RabindraBhavan Delhi and traveling.
2004 Conflicts & Dualities, Nature Morte, New Delhi.
2003 Migration, City, Home, Birla Academy of Art And Culture, Kolkata.
Chroma,Indisk/NorskKunst I Gatene, Bergen.
2002 Chroma, India Habitat Center, New Delhi.
2001 The State Exhibitions, Lalit Kala Academy, Kerala; (was also selected to show from 1995 to 1997)
2000 Sculpture 2000, Organised by GorkeySadan, Kolkata.
1998 Best of the Year, Lalit Kala Academy, Chennai.
SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS
Won the KAVA-1 Kashi Visual Art Award, the Promising Artist Award-1, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi and Art India Magazine, Mumbai in 2005, theBodhi Best Student Award in 1998; theVice–Versa Foundation Fellowship in 2013 for ShangYuan Museum Art Residency in China; the National Scholarship, Ministry of Tourism And Culture, Government Of India from 2000 to 2002; and the Highly Commended Award, Lalit Kala Akademi, Kerala in 1995.
ART RESIDENCIES, CAMPS & WORK SHOPS
2015 International Sculpture Symposium in Bronze & Stone ,Uttarayan Art foundation, Jaspur – Baroda, India
2013 ShangYuan Museum Art Residency in China
2011 Art Chennai-2011, TajCoromondal,Chennai
2010 Art Camp in Cambodiaorganised by ITC Group, Kolkata; at a mountain trail in Mukteshwarorganized by W+K, New Delhi; and Coorg in Karnatakaorganised by Gallery Serendip, Bangalore
2009 Art Camp in Baliorganised by Rai Foundation New Delhi; Ubud Art Camp organized by Art Home, Baroda; Art Chill, organised by Le-Meridian, Jaipur;
2009 Kashmir Cultural Camporganised by Foundation B & G and Popular Prakashan; and OberoiArt Camp, Mumbai
2008 Art Camp in Maldives organized by Art Invest India Mumbai; in Russia, organised by Creative Urge, Baroda and in Simlaorganised by Snowball, Mumbai
2007 Art camp in Spain and Kassel organised by Sun Art Gallery, Baroda; in Thailand, Malaysia &Singapore organised by Sun Art Gallery, Baroda
2006 National Sculpture Camp, SumukhaGallery &BaldotaGroup,Hampi, Karnataka
2006 National Ceramic Camp, JSW LTD,Torangallu, Karnataka
2005 Sculpture by the Sea-Bondi 2005, Newington Armory Wharf, Sydney Olympic Park, NSW, Australia
2003 Chroma,atIndisk/Norskkunstenigatene,Løvstakken, Bergen, Norway.