Tarun Sharma, in third person, is a painter, musician and designer who beautifully, often gloriously, fails at these endeavours of heart, mind and soul. Suggesting subtly, at times a bit more directly, through the practise are revisits to the obvious and the usual, making them dissolve, bringing out the unknown; while almost being a Stuckist in his craft.
Born 1985, the year Ozone hole was discovered. The quaint magic of Udaipur gave him his roots. He is an Architecture student followed by learning Industrial Design & Bauhaus School of thought. Amidst intricate doodling, scribbling and painting on pages, working with wood, being miserable with words, slowly going mad in sound, his affair with canvas as a medium has been solidly on since 2012. Abstraction and quasi-absurdism is base in his way of being, education and experience. From words, ink, ash, dirt, sound and paint, his works carry an array of meaningless, wordless experiences.
In 'his' words,
“Art, unlike design, should not try or aim at sending a message to the viewer. It should and must be a whole in itself first. Art inherently has no meaning because meaning limits the possibilities. Meaning arrives from what has been observed by the viewer and the creator through the course of their lives.
Work of art is a medium for you and me to connect in a different dimension, where meaning is good to have."
21-23 Feb’25
2-11 Sept’23
17-23 Dec ‘22
December ‘17
23-28 Sept ‘17
5 Sept ‘17
24-30 Mar ‘17
18-28 Feb ‘17
19-25 Dec ‘15
Live Studio Display at Pink Fest, RIC, Jaipur
Anahad - sound of being : Solo exhibit at ITC Rajputana, Jaipur
Chhaap: Solo exhibit in Alankar Contemporary Gallery at Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur
Work in Progress: Group exhibit celebrating 10 years of Kohlart at Ojas Art Gallery, New Delhi
Noir: Group exhibit at Stainless Gallery, New Delhi
Message of the Mahatma: Artist camp at RAEA, Jaipur
Explorations: Group exhibit at AIFACS, New Delhi
Now: Solo exhibit at Tolstoy House, New Delhi
Sanvaad: Solo exhibit at Cercles, Hauz Khas, New Delhi
