NOSTALGIA IN POP ART
Art Soul Life|May-June-Jul-2023
Amrit Pal Singh pays tribute to art legends who have inspired his artistic sensibilities and explores the future of digital art
Neha Kirpal
NOSTALGIA IN POP ART

The Toy Face Tour’ by visual artist, 3D illustrator and art director Amrit Pal Singh showcases a physical toy room made to human collection of 7 new Toy Faces, and a presentation of the artist’s previous Toy Faces. Singh’s lovable toy faces are a celebration of a whimsical childhood that transcends age and persists through adulthood. This exhibition includes seven new Toy Faces featuring absolute art legends like M.F. Husain, Dali, Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama and more. And also brings a virtual world to reality by enabling visitors to enter a digital toy room for the first time ever. Presented by Method & Hefty. Art, the exhibition, which recently concluded at Stir, DLF Chattarpur Farms, Delhi, will head next to Method Kala Ghoda, Mumbai from June 8 to June 25 and Church Street Social, Bengaluru from July 7 to July 23.

In this exclusive interview, Amrit Pal Singh talks to us among other things about infusing 1990s nostalgia into the exhibition, paying tribute to art legends who have inspired his artistic sensibilities over the years, and the future of digital art.

Tell us about the idea behind your first solo exhibition, a physical 3D toy room made to human collection. 

It’s probably every artist’s dream to have a solo exhibition, so it was mine too. I’ve accomplished a lot so far, and shown my work in many group shows in galleries across continents. But that one thing I hadn’t done was a solo exhibition. Sahil Arora from Method Kala Ghoda and I started speaking about this more than a year ago, and how to make it possible. He asked me what my ideal solo show would be, and I told him to make a physical 3D Toy Room. We decided to go for it.

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