EN

VIR

ON

MEN

T -

NU

RTU

RED

AESTH

ETIC

SEN

SIB

ILIT

Y P R A B H I N D E R L A L L

An Artist of Serenity

From the time, the man came to existence, he has been involved in doing experiments in life to cope up with various situations. In modern times, experimentation and speed has made its existence felt in a big way. It has influenced every field of life including the field of art. Today the artist are doing a lot of experimentation and innovations in their fields. Prabhinder Lall is one such artist. whose immense interest in experimentation has enabled him to give a new dimension to his vision and modes of expression.This Chandigarh based artist started his career in art in the mid-seventies. He tried his hand at making Drawing Collage, Print Making, Painting and Photography. He has travelled a long way to accomplish his creativity and talent. His recent works show varied hues of his long experience in the field of art. Lall’s work depict his varying moods. His work are marked with brand of vast landscape scenes embedded with architectural arrangements. Serenity prevails all around. Mountains with isolated houses, without habitats, are often seen in his works. Wider skies are filled with graded tones. And that catches and spells the magic on the viewer. Some times the mood of the work is so intense that one feels the artist is in solitude and wants to wander in search of space and only space. Many a time, the mountains are transformed into feminine figures resting in the open. Dark blue, green, grey and purple colours give the works a mystique look. His is a world of romance. He lets his imagination fly as fast as he can, to reach an open place, where there is no one to live in the isolated houses. At few times, a pair of lovers is shown enjoying the ecstasy of the bliss of love. In such works, if the lovers are shown separated, their inner urge to get united is conveyed, conveniently. They are tied to one another, in one way or the other. His world is so strange that sometimes figure may not need to hide themselves under clothes. In some of these works, the shadows of the lovers are made very long. This makes the work more dream-like Perhaps the artist, here, realizes about the real and unreal existence of the universe. In some of his, works he has made use of air brush to create textural effect that create illusion as if the same object is present at more than one plane, at a time. This further, adds to the mystique effect of his works. Prabhinder Lall is engaged in evolving his innovative multi-media techniques. He, Generally, he uses non-conventional techniques in his works. He may go for water proof inks – pen on canvas, paste clippings on canvas, assemble pieces of different objects and paste on a surface use stencils, spray (air brush) to create texture, use squeeze or card board piece or a metal strip to spread colours on the canvas or otherwise, may scratch the surface to create the required textural quality and so on. His work has been acknowledge and displayed throughout the country. His works have been collected by many museums, art galleries and private collectors. ‘The end of journey is no where the points, where was expect the end would be, life again begins from there’.

Jang S. Verman

ENVIRONMENT-NURTURED AESTHETIC SENSIBILITY

“Mother & Daughter” - Acrylic & Ink on Paper - 56 x 76 CMs. 1993

“Feminine Beauty” - Pen & Ink on Canvas - 18 x 30 CMs. 1998

“Untitled” - Acrylic & Ink on Paper - 56 x 76 Cms. 1989

The work dated 1989, “Untitled”, done in acrylic and ink on paper, speaks volumes for a jubilant derivation of the subject-matter from the salubrious environs of Chandigarh. The two cylindrical columns, bold and massive as they are, bear kinship with the monumental portals of the High Court building designed by Le Corbusier. The off-white wall against which they appear underscores the importance of Space in the architectonics of Creativity––as much of the Built-Environment as of the painted canvas. The central feature, an irregularly-outlined painting, reminds one of how Le Corbusier made Art an integral part of Modern Architecture. The foreground is a nebulous agglomeration indicating the exciting Act of Creation rather than the created artefact. The left-side column is sheared along with a poster stuck on it––to underscore the urge to sever human aesthetic sensibility from the placental membranes of the environment which have given birth to it. The whole work pulsates with a superior order such as is the raison d' etre of all sensible existence.

In “Mother and Daughter” (1993) Lall experiments with the use of air-brush. The air-brush was the tool which he was using during his Training in Applied Art. The figures are realistic, but delicately stylised. Here the Sun (symbolised by the vast sky) is predominant. The hills and the water-body, and the brick inclined wall are all familiar images of the Chandigarh ambience. It is an uncluttered orderly work. Human figures depict the urge for kinship with Humanity.

“Feminine Beauty” (1998), done with ink on canvas, shows skilfully the inherent human urge for an uninhibited appreciation of all aesthetic enchantment that the human female casts on the male psyche. The leaves, along with the exposed breasts, fill the hard-edged reality of manmade environment. The shadow of the figure on an incompletely-built wall is reminiscent of Le Corbusier's “Tower of Shadows” which forms part of the Chandigarh's Capitol Complex. The planes suggest Space; the blank background, the Sun; and the leaves, the Verdure––in artistically-transmuted visual imagery.

"Inspiration" - 2004 Work, done in acrylic and ink on paper, divides the rectangle into six squares. Each has the ambience of a sky charged with the energy of newborn stars. Each is differently rendered, with focus on the middle part bathed in luminescence. The squares are held together by the boldly-bordered container rectangle, but related to each other by their identical geometric shape. This manmade-natural relationship between the elements of Creativity is heightened by the presence of carefully-sited straight lines, horizontal in each of the two left side squares, on the right side. This breaking of the pictorial space is not unlike the splitting of the nucleus––in order to unleash elemental energy that creates a myriad forms, endlessly.

“Vanishing Green” (2006), done in acrylic colours, extends Lall's repertoire to refreshing new vistas of artistic perception. Combining the geometrical shapes with bravura of brushwork, he conjures up images of Modern Urbanism with its characteristic fast-paced life-style steeped in colourful confusion. I see in this work the important fact of transition from the regimented stylisation of his earlier works to the gay abandon of a highly-relaxed method of painting. The former warrants utmost executive control, the latter exploits an utter lack of it. One ends up in mechanical precision; the other expresses savage spontaneity.

“Sun Bath” is a very large board, which has been painted in oil colours. The exaggerated size is chosen to provide a vast arena for some kind of activist painting. The relatively small size of the Sun-Bather heightens the scale of the surrounding landscape. The brilliant hues, which accentuate the open (and somewhat sombre) environs, express joie de vivre that springs forth automatically, once conscious control is suspended in favour of the unique playfulness of the Act of Creation. Patches of sea and sky turn the landscape into an island which suggests that Life is a signature of an individual's uniqueness, and achieves its zesty fullness only when it is cut off from all mundane existence.

This work marks a turning point in Prabhinder Lall's career, and arouses one's hope of seeing him explore exiting new horizons of significant Creativity in the years to come.

Inspiration - Acrylic & Ink on Paper - 56 x 76 CMs. Year 2004

Sun Bath- Oil on Board - 120 x 240 CMs. 2007

Vanishing Green- Acrylic on Paper - 61 x 65 CMs 2006

DR SS BHATTI, Principal (retd.), Chandigarh College of Architecture;AIFACS-Honoured Veteran Artist Ex-Dean, Faculty of Design & Fine Arts, Panjab University; & Former Official Art Critic of The Tribune, Chandigarh. E-MAIL: ssbhatti24@yahoo.com PHONE: +91-172-2773258 [R]

Environment - Acrylic & Ink on Board 64 x 64 CMs. Year 2009

Vanishing Green Acrylic on Canvas 93x126 CMs 2009

Solitude 08 Acrylic on Canvas 63x63 CMs 2009

Urban Facade Acrylic on Canvas 45x63 CMs 2009

Solitude 01 Acrylic on Canvas 63x63 CMs 2009

Architectural Space Acrylic on Canvas 93x93 CMs 2009

Midnight Serenity-Scape Acrylic on Canvas-98x98 CMs 2008

Structure-Acrylic on Board - 63x63 CMs. 2008 Midnight Serenity-Acrylic on Canvas - 93x93 CMs 2008

Sea scape- Acrylic on Board- 63x63 CMs 2008

Sound of Love - Acrylic on Canvas - 93X124 cms -2008

Lipsick, Acrylic on Canvas - 63x63 cms -2008

Urban Serenity - Acraylic on Canvas - 126x126 CMs. 2008

Vanishing Green - Oil on Board - 94x126 CMs 2009

Serenity 08, Acrylic on canvas 93x126 cms 2008

Serenity 09, Acrylic on canvas 93x126 cms 2008

Architectural space Acrylic on canvas 45x65 cms 2009

PRABHINDER LALL

BORN July, 6 1955, Ratainda, Distt. Nawanshahar, Punjab, India

QUALIFICATION Diploma (Five Years) in Applied Art, from the Govt. college of Art, Chandigarh, 1979

Recognised by the All-India Council for technicaleducation, New Delhi

equivalent to the Master's degree in Applied Art, Panjab University, Chandigarh.

AWARDS

1980-1983 All India Exhibition of Original Drawings1981 Chandigarh Lalit Kala Academy Award, 1981 1986 58th All India AIFACS Award, 1990-96 All India Exhibition of Art Award by IAFA, Amritsar, 1991 63rd All India AIFACS Award1992-1996 All India Exhibition, Himachal State Museum, Shimla1993 Annual Exhibition Award, Punjab LKA Chandigarh, 1993 2002-03 Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademy & AIFACS Award, 2002- 2004 4th Northern Region camlin Art Exhibition Award (Professional Category, Mixed Media)

EXHIBITION INTERNATIONAL LEVEL

Tellus Art Org. Fusion Group Show by Swedish And Punjabi Artists in Collaboration with The Chandigarh Museum & Art Gallery, Chandigarh-01-05 March 2009

EXHIBITION NATIONAL LEVEL

1978, 1980,1986, All India Exhibition of Art AIFACS, New Delhi. 1991,1997,2000 1978, 1983,1987,1988, All India Exhibitions by Indian Academy of Fine Art, Amritsar. 1991,1994,1996,1999,2007,2008 1979-1980,1981, National Exhibitions of Art, New Delhi 1983, 1992 1980,1981,1983,1985 All India Exhibitions of Drawings by Govt. Museum & Art Gallery and

Govt. College of Art, Chandigarh. 1987-1989, 1992,1996 Annual Exhibitions of State Museum, Shimla 1995 All India Drawing Exhibitions, PLKA & NZCC 2003 Octave India Exhibition, Fine Art Museum, Punjab Univ. Chandigarh. 2004 Octave India Exhibition, LKA, New Delhi. 2008-2009 Cross Country, National Exhibition of Art curated by

Priya Darshini Sharma,November 20-30, 2008 at Durbar Hall Art Centre, Kochi, Kerala.January 16-26, 2009 at Travancore Art Gallery, New Delhi by Kerala Lalithkala Akademi, Thrissur, Kerala

EXHIBITION STATE LEVEL

1980-1982, 1985 Annual Exhibition by PLKA Chandigarh ,1989,1990,19911993 (Invited Section),1995 1982 Annual Exhibition, Punjab University, Chandigarh 1987 Chandigarh invited Artists' Exhibition by NZCC 1988 Kurukshetra Dev. Board at Hotel Mount View, Chandigarh. 1990 Graphic Print Exhibition by INDIVIDUALS, Jammu 1990 Himachal Academy of YMCA Hall Shimla. 1991 Chandigarh Artists' Exhibition, Govt Museum & Art Gallery, Chandigarh. 1991 Mobile Exhibition by PLKA at Hoshiarpur, Faridkkot and

Malerkotla, New Delhi. 1992 All India Exhibition of Drawings organised by 'Solids' Chandigarh 1993 Sirgana - Painting Exhibition of PLKA New Delhi by PLKA - 931997,1978, 1980 Graphic Print Exhibition by group 8 New Delhi and Govt. Museum &

Art Gallery Chandigarh at LKA New Delhi and Govt. Atr Gallery of Chandigarh.

1997 Nirantar Kala workshop cum Exhibition of Art at Punjab Kala Bhawan, Chandigarh

CAMPS NATIONAL LEVEL

1979 Carol Summer Print Making workshop : Govt. College of Art Chandigarh and U.S. International Communication Agency New Delhi at Chandigarh.

1993 Painters Camp at Naggar Kullu Manali by NZCC, Patiala 1997 All India Painters camp at Kud Patni Top organised by

J&K Academy of Art Culture and Languages Jammu (J&K) 7-16 June, 1997 2001 AIFACS All India Senior Artists Camp, New Delhi. 2001 Three days 'Artists' Camp at Andreta, Kangra (H.P.) Birth centenary of Sir Sobha Singh organised by North Zone Cultural Centre, Patiala November 2-7, 2007 2003 National Painters Camp at Peterhoff, Shimla, organised by NZCC and

Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, 6-10 August 20032008 National Painters Camp at Hotel Casino, Willington Island Kochi, Kerala (cgh earth

th th experience) reg. from September 05 to 14 2008

CAMPS STATE LEVEL

1991 Painting Workshop by Chandigarh LKA in Chandigarh. 1993 Art for Hospital' Camp of PGI Chandigarh. 1995-1996 Artist Camp at Mukatsar, Distt. Faridkot, Punjab 1996 Nirantar Kala Workshop” Punjab Kala Bhawan, Chandigarh. 2002 Drawings Workshop by Chandigarh Lalit Kala Academy on the premises of

Govt. College of Art, Chandigarh.2009 Paintings Workshop led by Eminent Painter Paramjit Singh organised by

Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademy and Chandigarh Art Heritage Festival from 29th March to 1st April, 2009

COLLECTIONS

1983- Govt. Museum and Art Gallery, Chandigarh - Architectural Space. 1989- Museum and Art Gallery Punjab University, Patiala. - Drawing Untitled. 1989- North Zone Culture Centre, Patiala - Drawing Untitled 1989 Semi Conductor Ltd. Chandigarh. - Collage _Untitled 1 & 2 1991 - North Zone Culture Centre, Patiala - Drawing Untitled 1992- Lalit Kala Akademi, Rabindra Bhawan, New Delhi. - Untitled - 33 1995- HP State Deptt. of Art, Culture & Languages, Shimla. (H.P.), Mother & Daughters 1995-97 Himchal State Museum. Shimla - Drawing - Serenity 1999- Freemans, Ludhiana. - Landscape 2004- Elevation Advertising Private Limited Chandigarh -Waterfall 2006- VLC Tutorials Private Limited Chandigarh - SunBath 2007- Museum and Art Gallery Panjab University, Chandigarh. - Painting - Untitled.

JOB EXPERIENCE

1973- Planners' Consortium Chandigarh - apprentice architectural draftsman & perspective maker

1978-1979 Planners de Moderne' Chandigarh & Kenya as Perspective Maker and Interior Designing & Display

1977-1979, Marketing Advertising Circle, Chandigarh as Graphic Artist. 1979-1980 Haryana Financial Corporation, Chandigarh as a publicity Assistant 1980-1981 Mass Communications Associates, Chandigarh as Visualizer. 1981-1982 Alfred Allan Advertising, New Delhi as Graphic Artist. 1982 Lintas India, New Delhi, as Graphic Artist, on Contract Basis. 1982-1986 Marketing Mix Group India Limited, Chandigarh as Senior Visualizer. 2000-2004 Elevation Advertising Private Limited as Art Director.

Artfort IndiaAdvertising & Printing2006, Sector 15-C, Chandigarh - 160015.UT (India) Phone: 0172-2772040, Mobile : 098553-73654

Email : lallpaintings@gmail.com prabhinderlall@yahoo.caweb site : www.prabhinderlall.com

P R A B H I N D E R L A L L2 0 0 6 , S e c t o r 1 5 - C , C h a n d i g a r h 1 6 0 0 1 5P h o n e : 0 1 7 2 - 2 7 7 2 0 4 0Mob i l e : 098553 -73654l a l l p a i n t i ng s@gma i l . c omwww.p rabh i nde r l a l l . c om