Dominus Aerius elegance – 6 2009
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Thukral & Tagra 2009 Australia
oil and acrylic on canvas244 x 122 cm, each panel
Thukral & Tagra
Gallery Barry Keldoulis
Monday 23 November 2009 to Wednesday 23 December 2009
Featuring in the 6th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art at Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, India’s emerging dynamic art duo Jiten Thukral & Sumir Tagra work collaboratively in a wide variety of media including painting, sculpture, installation, video, graphic and product design, websites, music and fashion.
Thukral & Tagra blur the lines between fine art and popular culture, product placement and exhibition design, artistic inspiration and media hype.
The work focuses on the dream-come-true burgeoning of consumer culture and a newly prevalent postmodern architectural style that can be found throughout India and is commonly referred to as “Punjabi Baroque.”
Vulgar and ostentatious, confused and desperately misguided, the style has been propagated by builders without the assistance of architects, reflecting the jumble of sensibilities that come together to create the new exploding middle-class of India.
T&T pump up the volume to turn these suburban homes into surrealist castles, sugar coated and floating on clouds of flowers. In paintings and sculptures, they explore this aesthetic of the proudly bastardized, the boisterous Mamma’s boys who pretend to be gangsters, the teenage farmers who dream of making it big in Bollywood.
25 November – 23 December 2009
