TARUN SHARMA
Visual Artist
Artist’s Bio
Tarun Sharma is a visual art practitioner whose work is inspired by little things that happen around us every day. MFA graduate from College of Art, New Delhi, India. His works includes drawings, paintings, mezzotint prints, woodcut prints and installations.
His recent project titled “HELPLESSNESS” is a part of a series of works, which is focused on the common thread of misery amongst humans. We are all helpless, albeit in our own, unique ways. The misery is variable but suffering is constant for everyone. Empathy is vital in recognising and accepting that being human entails certain circumstances that none of us can control or change. Documenting such instances is the artist’s way of contributing to the fabric that binds us all, and he hopes to start a conversation about it by shedding light on the way suffering manifests for everyone.
Mostly the artworks are inspired by the artist’s personal trials and tribulations with life, which he saw reflected in essence wherever he went. His works are based on his personal experience with medical helplessness which heavily affected his way of thinking and his works.
The main point that the artist intends to convey through his artwork is that the essence of the common thread that binds all of humanity is empathy.
ABOUT MY ART PRACTICE
through my recent project
My art practise is about looking inward and try to find a subject for my works with which I can truly relate to before pursuing. Apart from drawing or sketching casually or regularly for building a skill set I have a habit of reading and writing about why I would like to draw or paint something, so the actual art practise for me starts right from the moment this thought runs through my mind of questioning and after that reading, writing and discussing about the same with peers or through social media platforms. As I have pursued my Bachelor’s and my Master’s Degree in Printmaking specialisation so I have a habit of thinking and relating the subject with the media or the respective technique in which I would initiate the works.
It majorly includes observing while travelling through bus, metro, car, train or by feet. I get to know myself as a person and also learn about how the society functions as my art practise is evidently is a two way process of give and take relation between myself and society. For instance, when I was suffering drastically due to asthma and rising pollution in Delhi for which everyone including me feels helpless about it and treats the winter season in Delhi as a phase of curse for people living with respiratory problems in Delhi, it heavily affected my way of thinking and as the ripple effect of this medical helplessness phase I was conditioned to see and observe people suffering on my way from point A to point B wherever I go and whenever I go. For me it was really surprising as my route of travelling was quite the same before and after the sickness but my visuals were completely changed as in before asthma I was less empathetic and observant but after the sickness period my way of thinking changed completely and I am now more sensitive, perceptive and patient also.
For me my work resonates phases of life and in a way mostly my works are initially auto-biographical and later I start questioning and building in and around it which helps in making the foundation of works strong.
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WORKS
