Artistic adventures
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The works of five women artists from Europe and the U.S. will be on show in Chennai from February 9.
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A work by Pamela Winfield.
A GROUP exhibition featuring five artists from Europe and the U.S. will open at Studio Palazzo, in Chennai on February 9 at 6 p.m. The show titled `5 Women' will run through February 20, daily between 11 a.m. and 7 p.m.
The artists' link comes through their shared personal connection to India. Chantal Gowa, originally from France, has resided in Auroville for 14 years. Pamela Winfield, born in the U.S., but raised primarily in Germany, has lived in Chennai since 1996. Ruth Labak and Ursula Puehringer, both from Vienna, Austria, have been staying in Chennai for extended periods almost yearly since the late 1980s. Bente Elisabeth Endresen was born in Norway and is now settled in Denmark. This is her second extended visit to India.
Through prolonged exposure to both the East and the West, a kind of cross-fertilization of cultural influences is perhaps inevitable. This, of course, is only one of many varied influences on an artist's creative process which can operate on several levels. It can be a journey in itself to explore how these cross-cultural currents are reflected in their work along with the more interior aspects each artist exposes in her own distinct way.
For Chantal Gowa, painting is an adventure in silence, a depiction of an inner space, a microcosm or reduction of a metaphorical universe.
Pamela Winfield's style had been primarily naturalistic until her move to India triggered a change of direction to less figurative work. Ruth Labak renders her perceptual readings with a colourist's sensibility. Her striations hint at multiple layers of realities which emanate according to ever deepening conditions, the colours evoking the presence of varying vibrational fields.
In her search for other media of lightness and transparency Ursula Puehringer found her way finally to drawing with the computer, her preferred method of choice today. Her travels outside Austria have had a profound impact on her work. The main source of Bente Elisabeth's inspiration is Nature. The paintings are powerful, abstract, close-ups; sometimes recognisable aspects of landscapes emerge, at other times her work is a reduction to the very essence of the elements themselves: Water, Fire, Air, Space and Earth.
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