Ping Pong is a project in which each artist selects 10 themes and then those themes are exchanged. Both of them create 20 paintings in a span of 2 months time with 20 decided themes. And in the end, an art project of 40 drawings is created. This time the participating artists are: Angela Maria Restrepo (Colombia) and for the very first time, Suhasini Kejriwal (India). All the artists have represented their works in prestigious exhibitions and gained fame and accolades in recent past. The preparation of the project started long back in June 2013, when the artists exchanged 10 words, themes or phrases and now are finishing the drawings for each word. The outcome will be 20 paintings/ artwork from both ends.
The event will begin with a cultural dialogue and experience of the artists and launching of the visual arts book on the evening of November in Jamia Art Gallery and the art project will be showcased to who’s who of the art fraternity in New Delhi. On the following days, the exhibition will be open to public.
This event will be another example of ongoing culturally rich associations between India and Colombia and will take to another level of strengthening ties in culture.
Ambassador of Colombia to India, Juan Alfredo Pinto said “Colombian artists have showcased their work in the past as well, but this project will bring two nations together intellectually and creatively. We hope to bring more collaborative projects together not only in field of culture, but in trade, tourism and bilateral relationships.”
Please find below the links to the artworks and profiles of the artist.
Suhasini Kejriwal
Born in 1973, this talented cotemporary artist completed her B.F.A. from Parsons School of Design, New York (1998), Post-graduate Diploma from Goldsmith’s College, London University (1999), before proceeding to study M.F.A. at Goldsmith’s College, London University (2005-06). Among her selected exhibitions are the ones at Art Brussels, Grusenmeye’Art r Gallery, Brussels (2007); Celeste Art Prize Finalist’s show, London (2006); ‘All that’s solid melts into Air’, Indar Pasricha Fine Art, London (2006); Cologne’, Grusenmeyer Gallery, Cologne (2006); Nature Morte, New Delhi (solo, 2005); ‘Inverted Tree’, Gallery Threshold, New Delhi (2005); Galleryske, Bangalore (solo, 2004); ‘Secrets – The Spectacle Within’, Queens Gallery, British Council, New Delhi (2004); ‘Anthology of Art’, Groupis – Bau, Berlin (2004); ‘The Hues of Bengal’, National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai (2003), ‘Portraits of a Decade’, CIMA Gallery, Kolkata (2003) among others. She has won Parsons Honor Scholarship (1995-98) and was Celeste Art Prize Finalist (2006). Suhasini Kejriwal works with photographic images of flowers, picturing them on canvas by an emphatic, omnipresent deployment of a gentle filigree line without beginning or end. The artist lives and works in Kolkata.
Angela María Restrepo
Born in 1950 in Medellín, Colombia city where she lives and works. Studied in the Intituto de Artes Plásticas of the Universidad de Antioquia of Medellín. From 1976 to 1979 was professor of graphic techniques in the Facultad de Diseño de la Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana of Medellín. Exhibited individually and collectively science 1973, when she participated in the IV Salón in the Museo de Antioquia. The following year she exhibited in the Galería El Parque and in ARTE – IDEA in the Museo Universitario of the Universidad de Antioquia. By 1975 she presents her work in the Galería El Grifo of Bogotá, in the III Abril Artístico the Universidad de Antioquia and in the VI Salon de Arte Joven of the Museo Zea. En 1979 participate in the 1st Salón Regional de Artes Visuales in the Biblioteca Pública Piloto of Medellín and in the XXVI Salón Nacional de Arte in the Museo Nacional in Bogotá. That year she developed her first solo exhibition in the Galería la Oficina of Medellín, and participated in the exhibition 11 Mujeres Colombianas. She was selected for the exhibit Novísimos Colombianos in the Museo de Arte Moderno la Tertulia in Cali. In 1981 participated in the 1st Salón Arturo Rabinovich in the Museo de Arte Moderno of Medellín. In 1992 in the IV Bienal Luisa Palacios, in the Taller de Artistas Gráficos TAGA of Caracas, Venezuela. In 1997 participated in the Salón Regional de Artistas Zona 6. In 2005 participated in the XXV Mini Pint, in Cadaqués, Spain. Since 2004 she participated in the ARS BIENALE of the Galería la Oficina of Medellín. Currently she teaches etching in the Facultad de Artes Plásticas de la Universidad de Antioquia.
