ANITA GHEI MALHOTRA
solo exhibition
9Feb 2012 – 12 Feb 2012
Preview- Gallery Romaine Rolland , 5pm 9th Feb 2012
These works are a culmination of Anita Ghei Malhotra’s several years of studio-practice and doctoral research ( Art and Art Education) at Teachers College, Columbia University New York City and her spiritual experiences while she lived in Manhattan and then back again in New Delhi. She has recently been awarded Senior Fellowship by the Indian Ministry of Culture to continue her research based work in indigenous Tantric art.
As Anita says - The research in Indian Indigenous Tantric art and its education eventually fused with my spiritual seeking. Through meditation I realized that my inner creative process is just another way of Kundalini Shakti or the Mystic Power leading me into a heightened awareness of the Self ~ that the Guru Principle or my Sadhana (spiritual practice) is not separate from the experience of Beauty and Truth.
The idea of singularity and immanence or the individual Jivatma and the collective soul or Paramatma, is really a search for unity with the eternal truth, where the given means is the universal language of art.
I hope thus, by examining inherent spiritual and aesthetic inter-connections, a deeper level of transformation may occur amongst diverse cultures, where ancient indigenous ritual-based paintings and representations are not rejected, divided or separated for future progress but are accepted and included in the whole of education through art. “Penser une pense’e,” Alain Badiou. What art educates us for is therefore nothing apart from it’s own existence. The only question is that of encountering this existence, that is of thinking through a form of thought. (trans.)
(Research -notes, 2006 -11, Anita Ghei Malhotra).
Anita Ghei, 2011, New Delhi
