The Pink Monkey Art Form

Francis Gomila

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Born in Gibraltar where he studied Electronic Engineering before moving to London in 1973 to study Electronic Music composition at Morley College. He was appointed Town Artist for Peterborough Development Corporation in 1978 attaining International prominence for the introduction of art in public places. In 1985 he took up the post of Sandwell Town Artist developing an innovative public art programme which earned him a Royal Town Planning Institute award for “a significant contribution to Town Planning in the West Midlands”. In 1991 Gomila founded the pro- active artist company Fine Rats International whose night-time exhibitions in residual urban spaces(such as the legendary ‘Under Spaghetti Junction’ held over a two-night period, under the infamous motorway junction in Birmingham,)attracted mass audiences and two nominations from the National Arts Collection Fund for an outstanding contribution to the Visual Arts. Fine Rats exhibitions took place in a time-based frame at the forefront of ‘live art’, from which emerged a multi-disciplinary form of working incorporating performance, slide projection, film, video, and sound composition within the sculptural installations. Over this period Gomila explored the deployment of lens-based media as sculptural form: “In my view the digital revolution perfectly illustrates Duchamp’s“infra-thin”(the space between two sides of a single sheet of paper)enabling a permeable boundary,through which the digital image becomes sculptural in its own right”. In 1993 he was invited to co-direct Carta Blanca Madrid, which led to a series of influential exhibitions including, “ALMADRABA” an international site-specific exhibition on both shores of the Straits of Gibraltar (Tangiers, Algeciras&Gibraltar) “Colisiones” (exhibition & artists master classes)at ARTELEKU San Sebastian Spain & “BULL” exploring contemporary artists’ responses to bullfighting.

Amitabh Kumar

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Amitabh Kumar is a graphic artist based out of Bangalore, India. In the past, he has worked with the Sarai Media Lab, Delhi, where he researched and made comics, programmed events, designed print media and co-curated an experimental art space. He is a founding member of the Pao Collective, an Indian comics ensemble, and is currently occupied with creating ecosystems for emerging comic book artists in India. Since 2012 he has been painting murals across the country. He is an Associate Dean in the Bachelor of Vocation Program at Srishti Manipal Institute of Art Design and Technology.

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Siddhartha Kararwal

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Siddhartha transforms everyday stories and mundane objects into absurd narratives that challenge the viewer to think . He explores a darkly comical version of the current apocalyptic times .He is often playful and grotesque at the same time while fusing popular culture imagery with serious socio-political undertones, exhibiting a sly sardonic sense of humour. His rebellious attitude of aesthetic disobedience is rooted in his response to the downside of the social and moral fabric of our culture.

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Arna Gná Gunnarsdóttir

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Artist and art educator born in Reykjavík Iceland 1974, finished her , Masterclass with Bjarni Sigurbjörnson, painting, Reykjavík, Iceland in 2007.
2006-2007, Degree in Art Teaching, Iceland Academy of the arts, Reykjavík, Iceland.
2003- 2006, Iceland Academy of the arts – BA in Visual Arts, Reykjavík, Iceland.
2002, one year, Pre-Art Program – Art School of Reykjavik, Iceland.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS-
2016, December, Amma, Gallerie Artcreenvol, Strasbourg, France.
2016, March, Winter in Strasbourg, Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France.
2013, Gamalldúkur, Forréttabarinn gallery, Reykjavík, Iceland.
2010, September, Artist of the Month – SÍM, THE ASSOCIATION OF ICELANDIC ARTISTS,
2006, Arna Gná, Aurum, Reykjavík, Iceland.
EXHIBITIONS: COLLECTIVES
2021, Textile Art Of Today 2021, Slóvakía ,Hungary, Czech Republic, Poland.
2021, June, The 10th International Biennial Exhibition of Mini Textile Art “Scythia”, Ivano-Frankivs’k, Ukraine.
2021, June, The 2nd International Biennial Exhibition of Micro Textile Art “Scythia”, Ivano-Frankivs’k, Ukraine.
2021, June, Panser l’objet, Penser le temps, Strasbourg University, France.
2017, July, Grafíksalurinn, Reykjavík.2015, Vetur (Winter), Hönnunarmars, Mýrin, Reykjavík, Iceland.
2015, December, (Ó)Fyrirséð / (Un) Forseen, Salurinn, Mosfellsbæ, Iceland.
2014, March, Leikið með landslag, Hönnunarmars, gallery S33, Reykjavík, Iceland.
2010, Flushed, Kulturkontakt Nord, Norrænahúsið, Reykjavík, Iceland.
2009, Flökkukindur, Art Festival, Reykjavík, Iceland.
2009, Gallery Cubb ,Reykjavík, Iceland.
2009, Kenjóttar hvatir, Whimsical impetus, Akureyri Art Museum, Akureyri, Iceland.
2007, Femme, Salurinn, Mosfellsbæ. Iceland.
2007, Malmittel 17, Cultural Festival, Reykjavík, Iceland.
2006, Fyrsti hluti, Án titils group, Kirkjuhvol Akranes, Iceland.
2006, Graduation Exhibition – Iceland Academy of the Arts, Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavík, Iceland.
2005, Kaffiboð, Án titils group Kaffitár, Reykjavík, Iceland.
2005, Snæviþakið svín, Gallery Gyllinhæð, Reykjavík, Iceland.
2005, Kunstakademiet í Bergen, Iceland Academy of the arts.

Arna currently lives and works in France.

Helen Ratner

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Helen Ratner is a Brooklyn based artist with a quirky sense of humor. With a background as an Art Director in advertising, she specializes in motion graphics, animation, and design. Playing with techniques such as cel animation, rotoscoping, and collage, Helen creates surreal videos that surprise and captivate viewers. Helen has worked on a range of projects from music videos with major artists such as Steve Aoki, El Alfa, Kanye, FKA Twigs, and more to creating animated shorts for television.

Patrick Tagoe-Turkson

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Patrick Tagoe-Turkson, born in 1978, Is a Nature/Mixed Media artist. He graduated from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi Ghana. Founder of Lontoba Art Studio and Aesthete Ghana, Takoradi, Ghana. Patrick is an environmental and mixed media artist .His art practice involves intervention projects in nature across several countries . His projects are in direct relation to the changing contemporary spaces and ecology. Collaborations with artists, communities, students and the general public as participants, his practice is truly multidisciplinary.From drawing, painting, sculpture, mixed media, assemblage, photography, video to performance in nature. He has had exhibitions in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, South Korea, France, India, Japan, Germany, Italy, USA, Romania, Hungary and Mexico. His work can be found in private and public collections including The Royal Ontario Museum (Canada), Casoria Contemporary Art Museum (Napoli, Italy) and several private homes both in Ghana and abroad. Tagoe-Turkson is a senior lecturer and head of Department of Industrial Painting and Design, Takoradi Technical University, Takoradi, Ghana.

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Shivani Aggarwal

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Shivani Aggarwal is a New Delhi based Visual Artist.
She is a Post Graduate certificate holder in painting from Wimbledon school of art (London, UK) she studied under Charles Wallace art award in 2003. She holds a Bachelors degree in fine arts from College of art New Delhi 1996.

Her art practice has been developing into an exploration of issues of gender and the human condition, drawing a connection between the society and its effects.
She is invested in a variety of media to do with thread and fiber like sewing, weaving, crocheting, painting along with sculpture in wood, fiberglass with threads and video as well for the past 15 years.

She has had five solo exhibitions in London, Lahore, Mumbai and Delhi along with a solo project at the India Art Fair in 2013.

She has widely exhibited her works in India and other countries like Singapore, Dubai, Germany, England.

Her works are in various prestigious private collections in India and abroad.
She is widely written about in prestigious international magazines like ‘sculpture’ and in various other esteemed platforms , magazines and newspapers.

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Apurva Kulkarni

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Apurva Kulkarni is an independent academician, artist , art historian and a curator. A post-graduate in art history from Baroda (M.S.U) and a educator for thirty years.

He has taught art history, design, cultural studies, art and film appreciation in institutes as various as the Goa College of Art, the Goa College of Architecture, at the BBA in MES College and the MBA in the Goa University, besides having taught at the Kala Academy’s College of Music and Theatre and at various galleries in Goa.

He was the founder member of the seminal art group in Goa in the mid-eighties – Synchronicity. Besides introducing and pioneering curated art exhibitions in the state, he was an art critic during the early nineties: his essays were regularly published in The Navhind Times and the Gomantak Times. He conceived and hosted Lila in 2004, a weekly open studio which hosted interdisciplinary events that included talks, screenings and art demonstrations.

During the last three decades, he pioneered performance and installation art in Goa, held a solo show on drawings and participated in group shows exhibiting installations, assemblages and drawings in and out of Goa and in the United Kingdom and Germany.

In the past four years he curated the film club, Imagine at Gallery Gitanjali, screening documentary films exclusively on the arts. He conducted Studiolo, a series of lectures on sacred Christian art at the Museum of Christian Art, Old Goa. He curated film screenings for The Bigger Picture at Reis Magos Fort and lectured on art and artists, as well as for Face The Music, a film club devoted to documentaries on music in Sangolda.

Pratul Dash

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Pratul Dash has been preoccupied with the fear and fantasies that accelerate contemporary life, constantly changing it in unwarranted ways.While the artist has been sharpening skills of rendering the painted surface with a seductive realism, he also continues to seek ways and means to address the predicament of living in a precarious world that has pushed itself to the edge. The monstrous scaffoldings witnessed in his works,alluding to mindless urban expansion in the metropolis, capturing views of construction sites that threaten human life and labour.It has been important for the artist to reflect upon and share the implications of a world, not so easy to comprehend and yet surrounding us.
Having migrated from Burla in Odisha (Orissa) to Delhi, Pratul reminisces growing up close to the natural habitat, the Hirakud dam reservoir and mountain ranges where birds and animals co-habited the environment. The lush flora and fauna of his childhood that he left behind,deeply impacted his mind and his artistic quest. The self as protagonist appears at times as an adolescent boy and at other times, he appears as a witness to the fast disappearing natural habitat around. His paintings lure us, the viewers, into landscapes that amplify the twilight zone, situating us in undefined locales, perhaps imaginary sites, to contemplate upon the world that at once seems familiar and yet strange and unsettling in its configuration. Pratul juxtaposes motifs obliquely hinting at depleting resources and waste of water and land, disappearing trees and disoriented animal world.

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Sandeep Biswas

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Sandeep Biswas is an Indian Photographer with over two decades of experience in Art and Social Documentary Photography. Presently he is busy dividing his time between his photographic practice and as a guest faculty with various Art, Photography, and design institutes in New Delhi. He is also a lead curator for Photographic arts for VASA (USA & Austria), an international online platform for media studies, and a curator with Galeria Quarentena (Chile).

His practice as a photographer has earned him a few prestigious Awards, Fellowships, and an artist in residence program in the USA. He has had 8 online and offline solo exhibitions, over 60 group exhibitions, in various parts of the world. His works have been invited to be part of various international Art & Photography festivals. He has curated a few Photography and lens-based Art exhibitions for Art Galleries and Art Institutions, as well as has written on photography for a few Art Magazines in India. He has been part of various Art Projects raising the issue of gender equality and Environmental concern. His works have been part of various private and public Art Collections around the world.
He has been a panelist to decide awards at various contests including state awards for Jammu & Kashmir Academy of Art, Culture, and languages, as well as for an Art Awareness workshop for Lalit Kala Akademy in New Delhi.

Sandeep has been a photographer with UNICEF, ILO, JICA, WHO, World Bank, Global Health Strategies, BIRAC, VisionSpring, and a few other organizations , Editorial photography for ELLE, L’officiel, and Interior & Design magazine over the years. His works have been special features with various prestigious Art, Photography, and Design magazines and journals around the world including the USA, Japan & Sweden. He has worked on a few important book projects.
He has conducted various workshops in India, China, and the USA.

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