It is the second Mask factor exhibition curated by Avinash Gupte and Rajiv Punater. Today is the last day of the exhibition which is curated by Avinash Gupte and Rajiv Punater.
Does a face always reveal the mind of a man or a woman? Everyone wears a mask and hides the real feelings as they make a survival bid in the world. Behind the mask, they feel safe As many as 24 artists have painted the masks on the face. Raman Adone seems to have chosen to look at the face as an abstract construct – a meta shape made on many possible shapes. To Yashpal Kamble, the mask is like a quilt of social interactions. Deepak Joshi suggests an abstraction of Yin and Yang, of might and day, of pushes and pulls of emotions that might shape a face. Arun Wanare has a childhood story to tell – the painting is perhaps autobiographical. Anil Chougule goes back to nature and agrarian wisdom to seek answers in the differences in faces. Anirban Dasgupta addresses the problem of difference from near and far, in a direct as well as an indirect way. Farah Mulla uses a high tonality of colour and glitter as she defends craft as a valid form of artistic intervention. Rajashree Parulkar explores textures that are integral to reveal the inner being. The artist who takes the set notions of beauty for a tumultuous ride is Prashant Hirlekar.