PAINTER
Aradhna Tandon
"Tandon’s canvases immerses herself with her many experiences with an ardent but quiet grace."
Aradhna explore the beauty of her city Chandigarh – the gardens, the architecture, the fruit tree lined avenues – they are a perfect backdrop to the all-pervading sentiment of laid back charm. In her paintings she questions life and universe, unfolding against the backdrop of Chandigarh. The sweep of Tandon’s canvas often encompasses the city, as a whole, or, in parts. And no, it cannot be interpreted as a town or a neighbourhood ! It is a thickly built and yet subtly empty city, most often. The emptiness, despite the presence of people, is sometimes imbued with an eerie quality, now suffused with the hot red hues of an imaginary afternoon and now with the blue-blacks of the night. The artist often finds herself juxtaposed against her city, now subsumed in it and now becoming the city herself. The female protagonist in Tandon’s canvases immerses herself with her many experiences with an ardent but quiet grace. “For me, art is an expression of my feelings, emotions and thought...
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