Artist Information:
Sanjay Verma
jaipur,
India
Member Since: Sep 2005
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Artist Statement:
Galactic Convention
21st century is so immersed in
commercial typography,
channel-hopping, web-surfing,
consumer culture, competing
values, and objects clamouring
for attention that the picture
of uniformly beautiful,
obsessively thin and scantily
dressed model cheerfully or
seductively immersed in a
forest of words on magazine
covers may seem to us a mere
depiction of daily normality.
But Sanjay Verma’s recent
images are infused with new
radiance and vibrancy that
propels us to take cognizance
of the cliché emblem.
A period of some of the most
rapid changes in our history,
when technology, feminism and
higher education intersected,
resulted in the emergence of a
‘new cover model’ whose lures
of sex, youth and liberation
were co-opted by fashion
magazines as potent
ingredients to strengthen the
magic of consumerism. With the
rapid innovation of digital
technology the cover
typography on the magazines
also began to break out of the
quiet, restrained captions and
became artistic elements in
their own right. They quickly
moved in to live with the ‘new
cover model’.
At the turn of the twenty
first century, fashion
magazines witnessed the
transformation of the
standards of feminity into
abstract representations of
sexuality, which in turn
marketed transnationally, ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
Solo Show
2008 :
“Galactic Convention” Jehangir
Art Gallery, Mumbai
Group Show
2009 : “Who We Are” at
Sunjin Gallery, Singapore.
2009 :
“Ctrl+Alt+Del” Harvest, by
Arushi Arts at Stainless
Gallery, New Delhi.
2009 :
“Roopam” Rajasthan school of
art Alumni Show at Jawahar
Kala Kendra, Jaipur
2009 :
“Summer Show” at Arushi...
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Artist Galleries:
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Artist Reviews:
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Collections:
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Commissions:
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Sanjay Verma's Free Artist Portfolio
Welcome to Sanjay Verma's Portfolio.
Galactic Convention
21st century is so immersed in commercial typography, channel-hopping, web-surfing, consumer culture, competing values, and objects clamouring for attention that the picture of uniformly beautiful, obsessively thin and scantily dressed model cheerfully or seductively immersed in a forest of words on magazine covers may seem to us a mere depiction of daily normality. But Sanjay Verma’s recent images are infused with new radiance and vibrancy that propels us to take cognizance of the cliché emblem.
A period of some of the most rapid changes in our history, when technology, feminism and higher education intersected, resulted in the emergence of a ‘new cover model’ whose lures of sex, youth and liberation were co-opted by fashion magazines as potent ingredients to strengthen the magic of consumerism. With the rapid innovation of digital technology the cover typography on the magazines also began to break out of the quiet, restrained captions and became artistic elements in their own right. They quickly moved in to live with the ‘new cover model’.
At the turn of the twenty first century, fashion magazines witnessed the transformation of the standards of feminity into abstract representations of sexuality, which in turn marketed transnationally, ... |
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