Rajesh P Kargutkar, Colour Day, 2024, Oil on canvas, 60 x 90 cm, Copyright Artist, Credits Artist & The Culture Story
Rajesh P Kargutkar’s solo exhibition “Cramped Space” is a new series of paintings that captures the dynamic daily life and rich stories within Mumbai’s historic chawls, which act as a stage for everyday life where individuals traverse, connect, and shape their own narratives. Rooted in personal biography, the artist’s visual storytelling intertwines memories and photographs, blurring the boundaries between reality and imagination. His artworks depict a diverse cast of characters inhabiting these tight quarters, ushering viewers into these intimate yet constricted interiors, from the elderly man engrossed in a newspaper beside a tray of dried mangos and a clothesline laden with various brightly coloured undergarments in Sour Lover (2024), to the topless man symbolically caught between his wife and mother-in-law in MID Day (2024).
Venue: The Culture Story, 2 Leng Kee Road, #03-06 Thye Hong Centre, Singapore 159086
When: 27 Jul - 4 Oct 2024,
