Hemraj is an artist from Delhi. He is a very renowned contemporary artist. He took part in India's first Hotel Art Fair at Taj Palace , New Delhi. The event was named "Artix - An immersive Artistic Experience".



What Suhel Seth says about Artix:
Arti will be one of the finest celebrations of everything artistic in a setting that is both special and paved with panache. For connoisseurs it will be both memorable and unique and hence is something that those with an eye for the brilliant, must be at ARTIX.  

About Artix:

Artix is India's first ever hotel art fair. A novel concept, one where the entire floor of the hotel Taj Palace is transformed into a unique art experience, offering a luxurious visual treat for art aficionados. 
At Artix, one can experience the best of art galleries, solo shows, private collector projects, jewels and textiles, and engage in insightful art talks. The fair has the best selection of beautiful works of art. 

We Hope you enjoy our first ever edition of Artix.

“Hemraj artist says that when we plant a tree, we only dig one trench, but when we plant a forest, we have to dig many pits. Just like that, Artix Hotel Art Fair is also a part of the art forest.” 

About Hemraj: 

Born in Delhi in 1968, and based out of there itself, Hem Raj has added more glory to the College of Art, New Delhi, having pursued his Bachelors’ and Masters’ Degree in Painting from there in the year of 1991 and 1993 respectively. To his credit he has a series of solo shows and several group exhibitions in various places in India. He has showcased his work in prestigious places like Bill Lowe Gallery in America, the Galleria Muller and Plate in Germany etc. Hem Raj is bestowed with one of the most prestigious awards in the country, which is none other than the National Award from Lalit Kala Academy.

Some more glorious feathers in this humble soul's cap include his work having been exhibited in a solo booth At the India Art Fair 2014 Hemraj’s. This was one of the first occasions that a contemporary Indian artist working with abstraction had displayed, as a solo project at the International event. Hem Raj’s life and work have also been documented in several films.

His works impel you to behold, with the mind nudged to become still. Art that compels one to stillness can clearly be looked up to as something nudging us to the dissolution of the intellect. One would naturally be propelled to suspend the ever verbose entity to a peaceful halt, for once not trying to find meaning. Wouldn't that be one of the directions art can be piloting? To be gaining entry into the arena beyond the mind: apparently indecipherable, which is where his works lead us. The artist himself reflects upon, if he ever felt he wanted to convey a message, with a calm assertive negative. If art was to convey something through words, the essence of the communion would be lost.  

For his impressionist impasto flat bold strokes, one on top of another; lines demanding their say are playing with thick dots consciously haphazard. Do the opaque emissions on top of some translucent and some opaque under-layers whisper of the glimpses of the mystery of the coveted, now and then partially visible and then again hidden leading us to its ever elusive quality? Does that sound familiar? The very nature of life? That’s as close as an artist can get, to unravel through those layers characteristic of that opacity, which Hemraj consciously chooses.

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