Gallery78

Reimagined

ShapesGopal
Chandavath

21 Mar – 28 Mar
Hyderabad
2020

Preview
Saturday, 21 March
Time
6:30pm
VENUE
Gallery78, Hyderabad
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2019 Untitled form: Print on archival paper – 20/28 inches

The circle is related to divine: a simple circle has, since ancient times, represented eternity, since it has no beginning and no end.

Gopal is an artist and designer based in Hyderabad. He is best known primarily for his purely abstract & typographic art forms.

Gallery78 brings together about 30 works, revealing the diversity of his output, including typographic & simple geometry shapes and paintings. Spanning more than two decades of his art practice, the show highlights playful conceptual thinking on colors and forms that he brings to his experiments across all media.

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2012 Untitled: Mixed media on paper – 8.5/10.5 inches

Garamond is heavily overused typeface for those who are mildly typographically inclined. It is a beautiful face, designed by Claude Garamond, during the 16th century.

Did you know that the 16th century in France was the “golden age of typography”.

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2012 Untitled: Mixed media on paper – 8.5/10.5 inches

Creation of abstract works followed a long period of development and intense theoretical thought based on my personal artistic experiences. Shapes, colors, lines, typography and use of space always express the reality found in nature.

Gopal's creation of purely abstract work followed a long period of development and maturation of intense theoretical thought based on his personal artistic experiences. Colors, shapes, lines and use of space always expresses the reality found in nature.

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2019 Untitled form: Print on archival paper – 20/28 inches

In ancient Egypt art was based on geometry and on the fixed rules of a canon. The Square was at the basis of canon.

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2019 Untitled form: Print on archival paper – 20/28 inches

The relationship between colors and shapes played a pivotal role in Kandinsky’s ideas and the way he taught art. The assigment of colors to basic geometrical forms derived from Kandinsky's color and form theory. 

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One of those good old college days, way back in 1994.
JNTU hostel corridor Abids, Hyderabad.