PAINTER

Akash Choyal

"My prime concern had been to restructure realities and to unveil the hidden truth lying beneath the surface."

For the last two decades, I aimed to draw my own state of dreams and tried to confront the real and the unreal corresponding with my own dream order in which man, beasts, plants, sky, sun, moon, stars, gods with superhuman powers and human weaknesses all fit into their assigned places. My prime concern had been to restructure realities and to unveil the hidden truth lying beneath the surface of the objective reality. I could attempt it due to a graphic approach of my drawing that had intricate and intuitive tendency. Since then I have tried to grasp images of the unconscious depths of my mind and bring them to surface, by expressing them in various forms and shapes with a suitable symbolic apparatus. I also believe that the journey of the line is filled with drama. Moving swiftly in a spontaneous free flow of thought, cutting spaces, dividing and creating with unfettered force, black against white embolden me to the spiritual voyage. Till date, I have worked on different mediums lik...

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Artist Biodata

Akash Choyal, born in 1974, Udaipur, Rajasthan & has earned a BFA degree from the Faculty of Fine Arts, MS University Vadodara, 1997 and MFA, College of Arts, New Delhi, 1999. Akash has been invited to several celebrated arts shows, art camps and workshops in India and abroad. He has participated in several art exhibitions in Mumbai, Bangalore, Delhi, Jaipur, Bhopal, Paris, Korea, London, South Africa, Berlin, U.K, Italy, Bangladesh etc. His Distict participations are: India: The Revealed Mysteries – Venice, Italy 2014, Bangladesh Asian Biennale 2012, India art fair – New Delhi 2012 and 2013 (solo), SALON 2010, de la Nationale des Beaux-Arts at Carrousel Du Louvre Museum, Salle Le Notre, France; London- May fair- Russian Eastern and Oriental Fair, London; “Edition-Ally-Yours” Edition Art Fair, Busan, South Korea; “La Danse Des Couleurs” La Rotonde des Arts Contemporains, Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Africa; Art camp at Norway-Denmark; printmaking Biennale, Bhopal; National exhibitions LKA, New Delhi; ‘Relativity’- fourth British international mini print. Bristol, London; fifth Bharat Bhavan, Printmaking, Biennale, Bhopal; Harmony show – Mumbai; ‘Multiple encounter’s traveling exhibition of printmaking’ organized by Manhattan graphics center, USA.& Printmakers guild at New Delhi, Mumbai, Ahmadabad. He has been awarded 3 times by ‘Rajasthan Lalit Kala Akademi – 2001,05,07; Painting research grant award by Lalit Kala Akademi – 2001-02, New Delhi for which he did his research at Garhi Studios, LKA, New Delhi. National Award by Lalit Kala Akademi, 2010. Many private and public collectors boast of his works in India & abroad.

Artworks

The Reach,

Etching

ID: AKCH831

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Untitled,

Acrylic on Fibre Glass

ID: AKCH3107

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Shootout,

Acrylic on Fibre Glass

ID: AKCH3108

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A Flying Fish,

Acrylic on Fibre Glass

ID: AKCH3111

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