इदं महद्भूतमनन्तमपारं विज्ञानघन एव ।
Idaṃ mahadbhūtamanantamapāraṃ vijñānaghana eva .

‘This great Being is endless and without any limit. It is a mass of consciousness only.’
Says the Chandogya Upanishad (VIII. 3. 4)

Melting Tree – Live drawing on the wall

This installation was shown Nov 2012 in Kashi Gallery Kochin India.

IN THEIR STUDIO interviews Delhi based artist GR IRANNA ji (1970- now), who has a lot to share with us about his life and how that has resulted in his ideologies that are portrait in his works. What he learned during his education in London, how his childhood teachings of spirituality and religion affected him as an adult, as an international artist and a human and how it lead to his use of a very unique material (medium) to express who he is.

In this interview, the founder of PozoArt- AASHNA VIVEK ABROL talks to an Indian contemporary artist GR Iranna about his concepts and their meanings.

PozoART is an art blogging website that posts regular interviews with well-known artists from India and around the world. This youtube channel is created in an attempt to make artists more accessible in their own studios to everyone interested in learning more about them.

Gallery Espace

Many of Iranna`s paintings depict pain as an abstract force that is translated visually in bruised textures and razor sharp cutting edges. His painting has always been far removed from an overriding, postmodern logic. Instead, Iranna uses the idealistic, representative and modernist language of Indian contemporary art. His most recent works are all visions of resistance. In just a glance, one can tell a sense of massive dynamic energy that pervades the surfaces. An energy that is fueled by torment and the struggle against it. Upon further inspection, one sees that these conflicts being played out on the surface are present also in those between one colour and another, between figure and hue, and between the crudeness and the expertise employed.

KNMA presents The Artist’s Studio, an online series where artists discuss their practice around works which have been exhibited in the museum space.

Third in this series is a visit to GR Iranna’s studio in Okhla. Born in 1970 in Sindgi, Karnataka, Iranna completed his BFA in painting from College of Visual Art, Gulbarga followed by a MFA in painting from College of Art, Delhi. Through his paintings, installations and sculptures, Iranna showcases different socio-political and culture issues, abstract concept of force, the cycle of birth and rebirth and other contemporary issues. We explore Iranna’s studio practice as well as a few artworks from the KNMA collection.