EPHEMERAL HOMELANDS
A SOLO EXHIBITION BY SIDDHARTH SHINGADE
KYNKYNY’s latest exhibition featuring the recent artworks of Siddharth Shingade, journeys through the vast, arid plains of Marathwada in southwestern Maharashtra. The contemporary acrylics on canvas , on view from 21st March to 18th April, document with deep intimacy, the stories of its people, the land and forgotten ways of rural life. Shrouded in nostalgia and filled with a sense of longing for a home that no longer exists, Shingade brings to life memories, cultural traditions and communities that he witnessed growing up in Tuljapur. The small and idyllic village that he spent the first 20 years of his life in, has now grown into a busy and crowded city. Although Shingade now lives in Mumbai, he carries the images, sights, sounds and energies of Tuljapur within him. His richly layered, poetic works are an outpouring of remembrances, sense impressions and feelings about home that are embedded in his subconscious.
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Lady From Village
24 x 60 inchesRegular price ₹ 400,000Regular priceUnit price per -
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Village Boy
24 x 60 inchesRegular price ₹ 400,000Regular priceUnit price per -
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Flute Player
60 x 42 inchesRegular price ₹ 700,000Regular priceUnit price per -
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Shiv Parvati
52 x 48 inchesRegular price ₹ 695,000Regular priceUnit price per
Shingade’s art is a prism through which he reminisces and reimages the simplicity and warmth of village life, something that he sorely misses in the chaos of urban living. Serene, everyday scenes unfold across the canvases like a wedding procession or ‘baraat’ passing through the village, goatherds tending to their flock and toy sellers with baskets of wooden toys cooling off under the shade of a tree. The latest works that are part of the current exhibition mark a distinct shift in Shingade’s style and aesthetics. The artworks feature vibrant, hopeful colours like sunflower yellow and Shingade’s favourite – ocean blue – apart from the earthy browns that usually dominate. The figures in the newer works are more three dimensional and the backdrops and settings they are featured against exude the radiance of springtime.
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Vendor:Siddharth Shingade
Shiv Parvati
60 x 60 inchesRegular price ₹ 1,000,000Regular priceUnit price per -
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Family With Goat
50 x 50 inchesRegular price ₹ 700,000Regular priceUnit price per
Shingade’s dreamlike paintings are structured like the panels of an embroidered, patchwork quilt or ‘chaddar’ as it is traditionally called. Filled with exquisite detailing and rich storytelling much like miniature artworks, they are inspired by the embroidered, patchwork blankets crafted by nomadic gypsy women who often sat outside his home in Tuljapur, as they sewed colourful quilts.
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Vendor:Siddharth Shingade
Marriage Procession
48 x 48 inchesRegular price ₹ 640,000Regular priceUnit price per
Bejewelled, kohl-eyed figures draped in diaphanous fabric in mesmerising gradations of colour inhabit a timeless world that seems part-earthly and part-mythical. Stories and episodes of mythology are seamlessly woven into rustic scenes, like Shiva immersed in meditation and Krishna playing the flute or lifting the Govardhan mountain with his little finger. Envisioning farmers, gypsies, cowherds and toy sellers as godly beings, Shingade imbues them with divinity and higher spiritual qualities.
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Vendor:Siddharth Shingade
Flute Player
12 x 12 inchesRegular price ₹ 40,000Regular priceUnit price per -
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Nature is a powerful presence in the artworks. Men and women with dark-toned complexions that match the colour of the soil that pervades the region are portrayed in a state of oneness with the landscape around them. Trees (a recurring theme), forests, agricultural crops, cows, goats, fish and birds often intertwine with the human figures. Faces and bodies are transformed into canvasses over which intricate flora and fauna, nature-based motifs, abstract and geometric patterns, folk imagery and spiritual symbols are layered.
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Vendor:Siddharth Shingade
Village Life
56 x 40 inchesRegular price ₹ 625,000Regular priceUnit price per -
Shingade’s art goes beyond sentimentalism and celebrates the essence of Marathwada, a land rich in ancient wisdom and folk culture. Underneath the pastoral beauty, the paintings exude an air of brooding wistfulness, revealing the hardships, marginalisation and struggles faced by the people who live in a drought-prone, ecologically fragile land. Above all, Shingade’s art is an ode to the wisdom, resilience and endurance of nameless, faceless and often voiceless men and women from India’s rural hinterlands.
