Art Hall - A3

Rakesh Kumar Chaudhary is an Artist and Educator, a creative and innovative thinker with distinctive styling, visualization, and designing expertise. His art articulates the ‘inner thoughts of human beings and the soul of Indian society’. His compositions of enigmatic nature embody critical view of social, political, environmental, and cultural issues. There is always an underlying statement. The aim is to awaken consciousness of old and new values. His creative stimulus includes intensification thorough idiosyncratic creations, which can be seen changing, moving, and aware of the flow; sometimes soothing, while sometimes disturbed by the surging energy. The gentleness or abruptness of modeling and complex arrangements of several elements to form a structure, have been deliberately concocted to trigger emotional responses. A glance at Rakesh’s work and one enters the world of mystery revealing the things from past, present world and its surroundings. The symbols are never without overtones, like echoes that move out and mingle with other sounds. There are conflicts and dilemmas; vastness of changes to undergo and already undergone; and engagements to reflect radical revisions in the world. The related and even unrelated forms are carefully modeled and seriously thought over for being effective for the purpose, before bringing them together in a composition for conveying the desired message. The variety of impressions to an eye includes physical sensation along with literary as well sentimental ideas in the dramatic projections; vibrant, exciting, contrast of forms; asymmetrical arrangements and even blended contours. The seriousness and agitated patterns; new icons projected through frontality and linearity blended with techniques, can mean a social comment, a protest, just a simple message to transform attitudes and imbibed values. His artwork reveals aesthetic captivation; embodies dream, myth, reverie and satire, encumbered with subjects of animals like chimpanzee and zebra, fish, cat, crows, arrows, trumpets, lotus blooming among cactus, plants, and harsh ropes around delicate female body, bells, and clouds. There is spirituality and science with Buddha and astronaut in the same frame; idealistic viewpoints of Mahatama Gandhi; pain or scenario of migratory labour and lockdown phase where vibrant colours have automatically transformed to gloomy and dark; contrast of war and peace with man holding a knife in one hand and a bird in another; cage and entrapped white pigeon which is an icon of peace- all form an incongruous juxtaposition. “My approach is not only looking at the form and spirit of the human figures as in traditional works. I pay particular attention to the feelings and thoughts, as they are important expressive tools in creation. At the end, though the animal and nude series appear quite different from the basic structures, both display the same kind of direction in my visual language investigation. Some of my subjects are quite beautiful, others less so. My goal is to inspire those who see my work to look more carefully at the world around them, to discover the reality of life in unusual places.”