Gopal Pardeshi Profile   |    Summary My first break into the professional art arena was a one-year stint at Digikor Studio, Pune. At Digikor, I worked as a background artist designing cartoon animations. Building on my early experience, I have spent four fruitful years specializing in graphic design for web-based elearning courses created in Flash and Dreamweaver at Maximize Learning, Pune. Though landscape paintings still do tempt me, the “doors” theme remains my obsession.... Read More My first break into the professional art arena was a one-year stint at Digikor Studio, Pune. At Digikor, I worked as a background artist designing cartoon animations. Building on my early experience, I have spent four fruitful years specializing in graphic design for web-based elearning courses created in Flash and Dreamweaver at Maximize Learning, Pune. Though landscape paintings still do tempt me, the “doors” theme remains my obsession. Shaped out of interplay among hands, wood and metal, “doors” open up a new world that my work captures on the canvas. The Maratha “Wada” culture, which thrived in Pune, is epitomized in the magnificence and impregnability of these doors dating back to the 16th century. The history of the Peshwa era is evident in every line, crack, and scale of wood, the rusting metal parts, and the resilient I-withstood-the-onslaught-of-time-and-seasons texture of these doors. These doors signify not only the texture of timelessness but also time knocking on a culture. Read Less Born December 21, 1976   1976 Education 2000 Government Diploma in Applied Art, Abhinav Kala Mahavidyalaya, Pune 1996 Art Teacher Diploma (ATD), Abhinav Kala Mahavidyalaya, Pune Exhibitions Selected Solo Exhibitions 2012 'OOnh', Jehangir Art Gallery,... Selected Solo Exhibitions 2012 'OOnh', Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai 2011 'Aangan', Kala Academy Goa, Campal, Panjim 2010 'Aangan', Nehru Centre Art Gallery, Mumbai 2009 'A Journey Into The Past', Maquinez Palace Art Gallery, Panjim 2005 ‘Rural Obsession’, Kala Academy, Panjim, Goa 2004 ‘Dastak’, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai Selected Group Exhibitions 2008 'Seeds', Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai 2006 Nehru Centre, Mumbai 2004 Empress Garden, Pune 2003 'Tanapihinipaza', Nehru Centre Art Gallery, Mumbai under SWA group 2002 'Oon Savlya', Holiday Art Galleria, Pune, under SWA group 1999 'Strokes 1999', Empress Garden, under Abhinav Kala Mahavidyalaya, Pune Honours and Awards 1997 2nd prize in Mood indigo, Mumbai 1997 2nd prize in Mood indigo, Mumbai Read More Read Less Read Less
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