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Where food and colour blend aesthetically

PUDUCHERRY: The walls of the hotel are adorned with colourful works of this group of artists from Auroville. The group of four artists – Nele Martens, Agnus, Anna Maria and Hufreesh – and Henk van Putten, the lone sculpture, are showcasing their works at The Promenade Hotel in Puducherry.

“We are not taking any commission for the sale of these works but doing this as a service to local artists. The next set of artists would be from Puducherry. It would be good exposure to these artists since the hotel draws both national and international guests,” said Jacqueline Kapur of The Promenade. The exhibition-cum-sale of paintings will be on till January 1, 2008.

German artist Nele Martens draws her inspiration from the play of conscious energy that is universally active in nature.

Her paintings ‘Breakthrough’ and ‘It Touches My Soul’ can be taken together as exemplifying two polarities of her explorations.

Relying on the intensity of color is artist Hufreesh Dumasia, whose canvases present an abstract expressionism. Her centreless expanses radiate an intense exuberance and light. Her layered densities of scattered color particles and stretches of expanding shapes are subtly organised through underlying rhythmic circularities.

Anna Maria relies on non-formal elements of abstraction to express herself.

Her work steers away from a primary dependence on color.

Her painting ‘Journey Into Deep Waters’ evokes a submarine world of seaweed and coral.

Belgian painter Agnus expresses progressive intuition in the expressive power of geometric form. She uses the patina-settled covers of aged ferrous boxes as the surfaces for her brushed acrylics.

Finally, the work of sculptor Henk van Putten draws us further into the pure geometries of form.

Pythagorean geometry, platonic ideas and the perpetual circles of Tantric yantras are found in his work.

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