ABOUT SIDDHARTH SHINGADE

Woven Stories

Siddharth Shingade is yet another powerful young figure on the Indian Art Scene who reminds us that the contemporary art that first had a global impact in the eighties is not only doing well, but also, going ahead. His art is rooted, in the Indian context, and universal in perspective.

He is an artist who picks up the colours of the soil of his native Marathwada and fashions them into its people: farmers, herdsmen, labourers, and even those who share this heat and dust with them on the margins, the mendicants. What is most significant in his work is that he reminds us of where the livelihood of India flows, in its villages, in the woman who gave birth to its millions and its stark environment, without stereotyping and self conscious posturing.

Siddharth creates a personal language, populating his surfaces with tall figures that appear to be wrapped in history, with a million stories to tell. His choice of palette resonates the intimate relationship he shares with his homeland, Marathwada in India. The deep browns and golden yellows draw upon the warmth of its climate as well as its people. The mood in his paintings however is somber, perhaps a reflection of the oppression faced by his people & more so the women of Marathwada.

Born in 1983, Shingade completed his Diploma in Painting from the L.S. Raheja School of Art, Mumbai, in 2006 and his Diploma in Art Education from the Sir J.J. School of Art, Mumbai in 2007. He held his first solo show ‘Anitya’, presented by Gallery One, at Epicentre, Gurgaon, Haryana, in 2008. His recent group endeavors include those held at Gallery Pradarshak, Mumbai, in 2008; Gallery One, Bangalore, in 2007; Gallery One, Gurgaon, in 2007; Tulika Art Gallery, Mumbai, in 2007, and Veh Art Gallery, Mumbai, also in 2007.