Entitled to be untitled
RANA SIDDIQUI
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A group show on varied themes by established artists will be mounted at Shridharani Gallery from this Saturday.
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A NEW SEARCH BEGINS Seema Kohli's "Who Am I" series to be displayed at Shridharani Gallery in New Delhi.
The only thing constant about time and art is change. Change in the framework of a soul-searching exercise. Those who get answers, get stagnated. And those who don't, keep treading the path through queries in their colours, themes and experiments in the medium. The artistic journey of Seema Kohli through her creations of oil on canvas, Who Am I, tend to do the same thing. Seema's paintings are a part of a group show mounted at Shridharani Gallery at Triveni Kala Sangam from this coming Saturday. Others displaying their works at the show are Sunil Das, Shipra Bhattacharya, Shridhar Iyer and Suhas Roy and so on. The show is presented by Arushi Art Gallery.
Purity that be
Earlier we saw Seema's creation Hiranyagarbha or The Golden Womb through which she tried to establish the supremacy of a female over others as "she procreates and keeps the journey of life, on". This time it is a move from the The Golden Womb to Who Am I.
Explains Seema, "This time my theme is just an extension of The Golden Womb. My canvases are the results of a chain reaction because life is chain of events too. As earlier I have taken the mantra from the Yajurveda. Hiranyagarbha for me is the womb of a sun or a form of energy, from which we are all created. From this golden womb we move to womb of the world, from there we move to the womb of the childhood, then to youth or ignorance and adulthood. We are constantly falling from one womb to the other. So the question comes into mind as where am I heading. The questions form the part of my theme on the canvas." And this time she has liberally used red, as symbolic of fire and energy and yellow, as symbol for movement.
From this Monday Shridharani is also displaying some 25 sketches made in pen, ink and gold dust by Seema on the same theme.
Shridhar Iyer's work this time shows a serene yet solid white on his untitled, abstract minimalistic work. Against the white background he has given doses of black and gold which also has bare minimum use of red and yellow.
"White for me is colour of purity. There is a feeling of calmness in me and hence the works. I don't title my works as it restricts the vision of the viewers," says Iyer.
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