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Shaping the infinite world of the bindu

Madhur Tankha

Here comes a five-day painting exhibition depicting metaphors in dots and circles

Organic whole: An untitled acrylic on canvas by artist Surya Prakash.

NEW DELHI: The omnipresent bindu or the ‘polka dot’ makes a comeback on canvas and installations at an exhibition at Visual Arts Gallery here.

The Polka Art Gallery’s five-day-long show titled ‘Round & Round: Polka II’ opened on Wednesday and will continue at Polka Art Gallery in Defence Colony from August 7 to 25.

Curated by Sushma Bahl, the show is a group exhibition of paintings and installations by 30 contemporary artists who have interpreted the bindu or ‘polka’ in their own unique way. It presents a plurality of thoughts, ex pressions and palettes around a dot, circle, world, universe, swirls of a dance or entrapments in the whirlpools of life and the endless cycle of birth, life and death.

Through their brushstrokes and other techniques, artists have created works that interpret this theme in its physical, metaphorical or conceptual essence. Their creations can be beautiful or repulsive, conciliatory or provocative, or all of them at the same time.

While artists Sujata Bajaj, Jeram Patel and Shobha Broota link soul, body and mind in their abstract renditions, their younger colleagues Vishal Joshi and Nitish Bhattacharjee search for a central iconic point in their colourful paintings.

Shuva Prasanna sees bindu in the eyes of a young innocent girl in his painting, while nature is central to the work of both Sidhartha and Surya Prakash.

Through their installations and wall works, Goa-based Subodh Kerkar and Binoy Varghese from Kerala have deconstructed the concept to bring it on to a contemporary domain. They have focused on hi-tech terrorism linked with telecommunication technology in one case and global context and cultural rerouting in the other. Theworks of Rabindra Patra and Raj Mohanty throw the searchlight on conflicts and urban rural disorders. One uses the symbol of a hatching egg as fertility, in his work titled `Ande ka Funda’, the other uses recycled material to question our contemporary global realities. Other artists whose works are on display include Bose Krishnamachari, Laxma Goud, Manu Parekh, Yusuf Arakkal, Sanjay Bhattacharya and Thota Vaikuntam.

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