Gallery Champa Tree is pleased to present Transcendental Chronicles, an exhibition of the most recent works of artists Madhu Venugopalan and Ravi Kumar Chunchula. Showcasing a selection of drawings and paintings (about 30 works) with an opening reception on February 4, 2023 from 6:00 p.m. till 8:00 p.m. at the gallery premises in Greater Kailash, the exhibition will be on view till March 15, 2023.

The works of both the artists, Ravi and Madhu share a magnified focus on the intricacies of the lives of the working class in the present landscape of time. With the struggle to attain an existential balance as the axis, both the artists approach their art with a sensibility observant yet humane, allowing every individual character to emanate multiple personalities, an emblematic collective of different places and characters with masks in and out concurrently. The works capture and exhibit the nuances leading the circle of life through progression and balance.

Outlining insights into the delicate balance existing in the human consciousness, intelligence, and idiocy, both the artists bring out the synergy and contrast of natural and systematic living with their works. Their practice is woven around the consciousness of the social and metaphysical aspects of the human existence, hoping to bring a definition to the rules of transcendentalism of simplistic living, self-reliance, spirituality, while addressing the abiding importance of nature
in their works.

Madhu Venugopalan’s ongoing series “An Antique Piece of Love” presents the visuals of his everyday encounters with people, reflecting the harmony of art, agriculture and nature with the depiction of these groups in a state of homeostasis (Samasthithi). Homeostasis is any process used by living things to actively maintain fairly stable conditions necessary for survival. In another painting, the artist employs the imagery of a group of people trying to balance above rudimentary
tools to symbolize the consistency in daily routines as a means to a happy life. Ravi Chunchula pinpoints the nature of our worldly desires and the problems resulted with them through satirical performances of the bourgeois.

Ravi stresses the importance of natural and social consciousness and the concepts of the good and the bad, both hidden in the realm of consciousness with captivating imageries in his works. He states that
triggering each and every sense is the basic rule of conscious living. His works express the visual metaphors of social consciousness concurring with natural consciousness in the current society.
It is these insightful inquiries about the lives of the commoners and the powerful in order to attain a rhythm, order, and the self-reliance of human existence portrayed in Madhu’s and Ravi’s works that the Transcendental Chronicles invites
you to experience.