Apurba Nandi, Dilip Sharma, Gaurvi Sharma, Gigi Scaria, P S Josh, Manil Gupta, Murali Cheeroth, Nandan Ghiya, Pradeep Mishra, Sharmi Chaudhary, Tushar Joag, Vibha Galhotra, Viveek Sharma, Vivek Vilasini

In the show entitled "Popular Reality", curated by Ranjita Chaney, Gallery Seven Art Limited, artists from all over India defining the popular issues and reality around them. In more than twenty artworks, oil and acrylics on canvas and paper works, artists like Murali Cheeroth, Tushar Joag, Manil Gutpa, Nandan Ghiya and Vibha Galhotra. et al show their personal view on the expanding these issues through their medium and chosen topics, in metro-cities which they are based in.

The artists see reality not only as mere popular issue but more of constructively destructive idea. The Idea of Reality and popularity exists whether we see it or not. Or the reality which exists because we have created it or another idea where reality exists because it is popular!

Nandan Ghiya: Mission Abortion, 2008

acrylic on canvas, 48" x 60"

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Here also are issues which are popular but not real, or popularity which is materialistic, and another level where popular is just self created.

The interest of the curator is to bring out the thought in the minds of the artists' in regards to these aspects with the self believed and the universal truth.

Apurba Nandi: The Made One (Diptych), 2008

water colour, charcoal on paper, 36 x 120 inches

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A much known truth is that we are always trying to differentiate the real thing from the unreal thing, "Reality" be it of life, social culture, society, politics, spirituality, identity and so on. These are few thoughts and many more similar associations that keep coming in our minds.

And likewise there is another fixation parallel running to this reality, namely popularity, a term very familiar to us. When it says popular, it does not necessarily mean it is for real or it's the ultimate. Instead it's talking of something which is more of a mainstream act or easily available to all.

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