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Praneet SoiMy Coordinates - II, 2020Acrylic and silverpoint on canvas66 x 55 in -
Praneet SoiView from the Studio, Le Maupas, 2021Ceramic tiles28 x 23 in
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Praneet SoiTree Trunk, Le Maupas, 2021Ceramic tiles35.5 x 19.5 in
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Praneet SoiMy Coordinates - I, 2020Acrylic and silverpoint on canvas55 x 66 in
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Praneet SoiView from my Window, Le Maupas, 2021Ceramic tiles20.5 x 20 in
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Praneet SoiView from my Window, Le Maupas, Nocturne, 2021Ceramic tiles20.5 x 20 in
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Praneet SoiBird, 2021Acrylic & silverpoint on linen43.5 x 43.5 in
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Praneet SoiThe Olive Tree and the Bul - Bul, 2021Acrylic, silverpoint and graphite on canvas78.7 x 78.7 in
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Praneet SoiFarm across the Studio, Le Maupas, 2021Ceramic tiles23 x 33 in
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Praneet SoiTree from Marine Drive (Nocturne), 2021Silverpoint, acrylic & gel on canvas39.3 x 39.3 in
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Praneet SoiView through the Hedge, Le Maupas, 2021Ceramic tiles28 x 23 in
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Praneet SoiMy Coordinates – Nocturne (Blue), 2020Acrylic and silverpoint on canvas55 x 66 in
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Praneet SoiHerbs from the Garden, Le Maupas, 2021Ceramic tiles20.5 x 20 in
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Praneet SoiRoof Tiles, Le Maupas, 2021Ceramic tiles20.5 x 20 in
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Praneet SoiGlazes, Le Maupas, 2021Ceramic tiles20.5 x 20 in
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Praneet SoiView through the Olive Tree, Sebastia, 2021Silverpoint on linen23.6 x 23.6 in
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Praneet SoiMan, Fragmented, 2021Acrylic, gel and silverpoint on Linen39.3 x 39.3 in
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Praneet SoiChinar Leaves, 2021Silverpoint & acrylic on linen39 1/4 x 39 1/4 in
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Praneet SoiBurgundy Landscape, Le Maupas, 2021Ceramic tiles23.5 x 33.5 in
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Praneet SoiPortrait of Le Maupas, 2021Ceramic tiles28 x 23 in
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Praneet SoiView through the Hedge, Le Maupas, 2021Inkjet print on rice paper42 x 59 in
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Praneet SoiView through the Sebastia, Le MaupasInkjet print on rice paper55.5 x 42.5 in
Birds migrate, as do patterns and images, filtered as they are through the innumerable communications that result from their transmission. Attuned to migration, Soi oscillates between the Netherlands and Kolkata. His family, originally from Lahore moved to Bengal during the partition of the country in 1947. The push and pull of such movements ignites a desire for stability - one that can only be attained through hybridity. The works on display across Migrations articulate this thinking, wedding a polymorphic narrative to the semantics of image construction.
The body of work on display consists of paintings on canvas, created in the artist’s studio in Amsterdam and while in residency at the Luceberthuis in Bergen-Binnen, in North Holland. It includes ceramic tiles that were painted and drawn upon by Soi at a ceramic atelier in the region of Le Maupas, in Sussey, France. Soi used his time in rural Burgundy to work en plein-air, allowing his hand primacy in the images that were etched out in special ceramic pencils, wash like under-glazes and deep over-glazes upon the tiles.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Praneet Soi completed his BFA and MFA in painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts, MSU Baroda, following which he worked in the advertising industry in New Delhi. He went on to do his second master’s from the University of California at San Diego on scholarship, and then moved to the Netherlands in 2002 to attend the Rijksakademie van beeldende Kunsten for a two-year international residency program for artists. Soi has since divided his time between Amsterdam and Kolkata. This movement between two cities impacts his practice which develops out of ‘patterns that emerge from an investigation of his extended social and economic landscape’.
In 2011, he was one of four artists representing India at the Indian Pavilion in Venice, where he created a site-specific drawing installation. In 2014, Soi was artist-in-residence at Stiftung Laurenz Haus in Basel. In the same year he was granted a research fellowship at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC for studying illuminated manuscripts at the Sackler and Freer Galleries. In 2016, Soi participated in the Kochi–Muziris Biennale and also exhibited at Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi. In 2017, he unveiled a solo exhibition at the Bhau Daji Lad Museum in Mumbai.
The artist lives and works in Amsterdam.
