In this present group show, we observe that there is no bald imitation or description of outward subject matter.  Several compositions rise to rhythmic equanimity, while others are more skillful with imaginative conceptions.  Thus the works of Jiten Sahu, in what may be termed lyricality or a romanticism.  And then we have Darshan Sharma, apt in draughtsmanship  but putting the same dexterous expertise to the end of benign fantasies, dreams that come to us during our undisturbed reveries. 
 

Ramchandra B. Pokale is based in on the as of innocence, that is, of the growing child.  And sweet it is with children at play, making castles in the air, and what not.  The artist handles his colours adroitly as one does in fairy tales.  All the varied images in Pokale’s compositions are well knit like a jigsaw puzzle solved to satisfaction. 
 

Hitendra Singh Bhati is prolific, to go by earlier showings.  And in them invariably, or often enough, the artist is glued to the lot of what is the common humanity of or the down and under.  So that countries like India provide him much expressive material.  The waifs that he pointedly paints are everyday sight but usually ignored by the passerby.  Here the artists as a densitive being tries his best to provoke thought and feeling in the indifferent citizen.  Not that Bhati is didactic, rather he is ironic.  And this irony is welcome in the repertoire art, which is not only about ‘beauty’ as popularly understood, but with the atrophy of the human heart even in the so-called high living. 
Priyanka’s are notable compositions of robust designs, almost as being sculptural reliefs in metal or some similar medium.  From among these artists, she is the furthest away from naïve realism.  She deftly re-images the parts of the human body not as in anatomical mechanics, but as organic dynamics.  It’s a retake on the geometric balances observed in the ancient Indian stone work temples.  The basic structures have here been thoroughly grasped, and so we get a feel or power or energy that is life in motion or action.  Apparently Priyanka Sharma is trying to carve out an independent path for herself.  So much the better. 
 

G.C.Jena’s  are complex or compounded imageries since he seems to draw his inspiration, or themes, from both the past of this culture as also the present techno civilization.  Thus his often quaint images are sustained by a search for meanings that need to be decoded by the thoughtful viewer.  Of course each person may interpret them differently.  All the same Jena in some of his work does make provision for pure visual delight.   
 
In those particular entries, the search for meaning can wait, but the outward festivity of such composition could be a music for the eyes, the music of symphonic colours as the movement of the dance in undulation.  At such moments the two arts come together.   
 
---PADMASHREE KESHAV MALIK----

Eminent Art Critic & Poet