Tuesday, October 26
Friday, October 8
O time, slow thee thy pace
O time now slow down
Your phrenetic pace
Else bring not along
opportunity
To my refractory
Door
Ceaseless and pulsing
Your patient knocks
Trip compellingly
My circumspection
Each reluctant step
A lure
A sure circumstance
Of death and You O Time!
Your phrenetic pace
Else bring not along
opportunity
To my refractory
Door
Ceaseless and pulsing
Your patient knocks
Trip compellingly
My circumspection
Each reluctant step
A lure
A sure circumstance
Of death and You O Time!
Saturday, October 2
Another exhibition of paintings sculpture and installations
Elegant 2010- an exhibition of paintings sculpture and installations
'Elegant 2010', a group show of seven young artists from Pondicherry and Cuddalore opened on September the 25th, at Gallery Square Circle in Bharat Niwas, Auroville. It is a medley of sculpture, painting and installations. The last mentioned is now trendy in India.
Installation is a 1970 art genre that is alleged to “ redefine space ” ; the tradition of sculpture and painting is prevalent since man began image-making.
The walls of the Kala kendra gallery have paintings on them; sculptures are laid on the floor and installations occupy the space between the floor and ceiling. An assemblage, supposedly an ant (the square wood pile before it was imagined sugar!), has little resemblance to an ant unlike Picasso's 1943 sculpture called 'Bull's head', assembled with the simplest of 'found' objects, a bicycle seat and a handle-bar. Originally in this manner of art making a found object was made to resemble something, but then a person's portrait had the likeness of the sitter prior to further developments in modern trends.
Further on, an unwitting spectator is startled on seeing foot-prints in white and black on the floor. A closer sensing reveals that some bare foot-prints are painted on the floor along with footwear prints leading to 9, almost new floor-mats. Another installation is a sculpture in stone surrounded by strands of white strings which are held in place on the cement floor with some glue. Elsewhere there are patches of crystalline powder, black and white. The basement area, braced for the occasion, looked dim despite lights. Huge earthen jars were stacked along the walls. A showcase stood there arbitrarily, with some sort of clothing in a pile. The central area, the non-dusty part, was perhaps the installation proper. It is difficult to say how it redefined the basement space. However, it is expectable in a group show without an agenda that the work is varied in taste and manner.
Paintings there are many, both in type and count, yet not one that would surprise the eye used to seeing contemporary art. There were childish doodles on largish canvases rather contrived to qualify as child-art, and there were other figurative things and non-figurative things. None was too impressive but a couple showed promise.
A. Vasudevan's ( born 1987, Pondy) paintings were of nature - people and objects and nature seen as in life yet not life-like, but they bore the marked character of studio painting. Some of his landscapes were semi abstract but recognisable, though not as 'landscapes' but rather 'mindscapes' of the painter.
E. Santhakumar, (born in Pondicherry in 1978) sculpts and paints and installs as well. His assemblage draws one near for a closer look at it. The use of found objects is often clever but not always so; there is wit in his art yet sometimes it is arty in its content.
His four-footed beast, made entirely of auto-mobile parts, is placed attractively in the centre of room one. There is colour there, rust brown and red and steel, which works well. The chain defines the spinal column and various other auto-mobile parts complete a well proportioned and solidly planted animal looking to its left, from a raised platform. His other work is an installation with many dragonflies or moths. The insects are made with pop bottle openers, their wings transparent fibreglass or plastic. The veins in the transparent wings are delicately drawn with a Vandyke brown marker. The heaviness of the bottle opener counters their delicacy creating an interesting contrast. His canvases are abstract, reminiscent of the abstract expressionists, particularly Arshile Gorky. His palette is predominantly a combination of blue and grey with orange and other warm accents here and there. A sudden black stabs a picture in places.
Although he is young, there is in this artist a firmness of hand and gesture. Santhakumar says, “when I see materials in front of me, I seek the colours and lines in my body, which transform into my soul of art.”
The show will wrap-up on 4th of October, 2010.
'Elegant 2010', a group show of seven young artists from Pondicherry and Cuddalore opened on September the 25th, at Gallery Square Circle in Bharat Niwas, Auroville. It is a medley of sculpture, painting and installations. The last mentioned is now trendy in India.
Installation is a 1970 art genre that is alleged to “ redefine space ” ; the tradition of sculpture and painting is prevalent since man began image-making.
The walls of the Kala kendra gallery have paintings on them; sculptures are laid on the floor and installations occupy the space between the floor and ceiling. An assemblage, supposedly an ant (the square wood pile before it was imagined sugar!), has little resemblance to an ant unlike Picasso's 1943 sculpture called 'Bull's head', assembled with the simplest of 'found' objects, a bicycle seat and a handle-bar. Originally in this manner of art making a found object was made to resemble something, but then a person's portrait had the likeness of the sitter prior to further developments in modern trends.
Further on, an unwitting spectator is startled on seeing foot-prints in white and black on the floor. A closer sensing reveals that some bare foot-prints are painted on the floor along with footwear prints leading to 9, almost new floor-mats. Another installation is a sculpture in stone surrounded by strands of white strings which are held in place on the cement floor with some glue. Elsewhere there are patches of crystalline powder, black and white. The basement area, braced for the occasion, looked dim despite lights. Huge earthen jars were stacked along the walls. A showcase stood there arbitrarily, with some sort of clothing in a pile. The central area, the non-dusty part, was perhaps the installation proper. It is difficult to say how it redefined the basement space. However, it is expectable in a group show without an agenda that the work is varied in taste and manner.
Paintings there are many, both in type and count, yet not one that would surprise the eye used to seeing contemporary art. There were childish doodles on largish canvases rather contrived to qualify as child-art, and there were other figurative things and non-figurative things. None was too impressive but a couple showed promise.
A. Vasudevan's ( born 1987, Pondy) paintings were of nature - people and objects and nature seen as in life yet not life-like, but they bore the marked character of studio painting. Some of his landscapes were semi abstract but recognisable, though not as 'landscapes' but rather 'mindscapes' of the painter.
E. Santhakumar, (born in Pondicherry in 1978) sculpts and paints and installs as well. His assemblage draws one near for a closer look at it. The use of found objects is often clever but not always so; there is wit in his art yet sometimes it is arty in its content.
His four-footed beast, made entirely of auto-mobile parts, is placed attractively in the centre of room one. There is colour there, rust brown and red and steel, which works well. The chain defines the spinal column and various other auto-mobile parts complete a well proportioned and solidly planted animal looking to its left, from a raised platform. His other work is an installation with many dragonflies or moths. The insects are made with pop bottle openers, their wings transparent fibreglass or plastic. The veins in the transparent wings are delicately drawn with a Vandyke brown marker. The heaviness of the bottle opener counters their delicacy creating an interesting contrast. His canvases are abstract, reminiscent of the abstract expressionists, particularly Arshile Gorky. His palette is predominantly a combination of blue and grey with orange and other warm accents here and there. A sudden black stabs a picture in places.
Although he is young, there is in this artist a firmness of hand and gesture. Santhakumar says, “when I see materials in front of me, I seek the colours and lines in my body, which transform into my soul of art.”
The show will wrap-up on 4th of October, 2010.
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