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SELECTED WORKS BY Justin Ponmany



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Justin Ponmany

Staple Agony II, Plastic Memory

2006
Acrylic and holographic pigment on canvas, diptych

191 x 325 cm

There is a Darwinian approach to much of Ponmany’s practice, as he continually reorganises and reinvents reality. Rebranding by digitising, Ponmany duplicates figures in electric landscapes that are stylised beyond comprehension were it not for the reoccurring markers and motifs of figures and skyscrapers that appear in his works. Using plastic paints, silver holograms, rich pigments of colour and distorted photographic-negatives, Ponmany is as interested in the production of his works as he is in the object that exists thereafter. Staple Agony II, Plastic Memory is a work that might appear to come from the lyric of a Radiohead song, in which the solitary shell of a hooded figure is seated at the centre of an enclosed space with what appears to be an industrial staple-gun, illuminated in orange, floating in the foreground.



ARTIST INFORMATION




Justin Ponmany's BIOGRAPHY



1974
Born in Kerala, India


SOLO EXHIBITIONS


2007
Who's keeping Score, Bose Pacia Gallery, New York

2006
Procreation, Nature Morte, Milan

2005
Salt (Plastic Memory-Part II), Nature Morte, India

2004
Non-biodegradable Memory, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai


GROUP EXHIBITIONS


2007
The Armory Show, Nature Morte, New York
Private/Corporate IV-A Dialogue of the Collections Lekha and Anupam Poddar, New Delhi, and Daimler Chrysler, Stuttgart/Berlin

2006
Fiac Art Fair, Nature Morte/ BosePacia, Paris
Art Basel, Nature Morte, Switzerland
Hungry God-Indian Contemporaries, Arario Gallery, Beijing

2005

Three Person Show, Bombay Art Gallery, Mumbai
Outside Europe, from the Daimler Chrysler Collection, Galerie Der Stadt, Sindelfingen (Stuttgart), Germany
The artist lives and works in Baroda/ Bombay/ Calcutta/ Mysore/ Rotterdam/ Trivandrum, House of World culture, Berlin
Whose Space Is It Anyway?, Gallery Espace, New Delhi
We are like this only, Vadhera Art Gallery, New Delhi
Arad Biennale, Romania
Summer Show, curated by Peter Nagy, Nature Morte, New Delhi
Present Future, curated by Saryu Doshi, N.G.M.A., Mumbai
Identity Alienation Amity, curated by Bina Sarkar Ellias, Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai
Span, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
Double Enders, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai

2004
Bombay x 17, Kashi Art Gallery, Cochin
Metallic, The Palette Art Gallery, New Delhi
Ideas and Images, curated by Saryu Doshi, N.G.M.A., Mumbai
Bombay Boys, The Palette Art Gallery, New Delhi

2003
Awardees Bose Pacia Gallery, New York
HighlightsSakshi Gallery, Mumbai
Ideas and Images, curated by Saryu Doshi, N.G.M.A., Mumbai
Camp Show, The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai
Inaugural Show, The Indian Habitat center, Viart Gallery, Delhi
4 Artists, Sakshi Gallery, Bangalore
Art for Art an Indo-Swedish Project on "Bench Art', Kalaghoda, Mumbai

2002
Words and Images, the Guild Art Gallery, N.G.M.A, Mumbai
Cutting Edge Contemporary, Art Edge, N.G.M.A, Mumbai
Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, Sakshi Gallery, The Indian Habitat Center, Delhi
Crosscurrents, Jehangir Art Gallery
The New Paradigms, the Indian Habitat Center, Delhi
Debt, The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai
The 7- Harmony Show, Nehru Center, Mumbai

2000
Embarkations, (The Millennium Show), curated by Yashodhara Dalmia, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
The Mumbai Metaphor, curated by Anupa Mehta, Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai
Exile and Longing, Lakheeren Gallery, Mumbai
Memos for the New Millennium from Artists of the Molting World, curated by Abhay Sardesai, Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Mumbai

1999
Wall Paper Kala Ghoda Art Fair Mumbai and Lakheeran Gallery, Mumbai
Legatee Sir J.J.School of Art Fine Art Company Gallery, Mumbai
Inaugural Show, Fine Art Company Gallery, Mumbai
Icons of the Millennium, Lakheeren Gallery, Mumbai

1998
Windows to the Soul, Auction in Aid of NAB conducted by Sotheby's, Mumbai
Indian Contemporary Art, the RPG Collection, Germany

 
 

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