Space talks, chords created
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Here is Delhi’s chance to view senior artists Regina Silveria and Arthur Luiz Piza’s modernist creations. RANA SIDDIQUI
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Playing with space Arthur Luiz Piza’s abstract creations
“Are you able to understand it?” Or “I am unable to identify with it?” – these queries from visitors may be doing the rounds at New Delhi’s India Habitat Centre where Brazil’s veteran artists
Regina Silveria and Arthur Luiz Piza’s shows are mounted.
But then, there are many, including artist Vivan Sundaram who are mesmerised by it.
These two shows are a part of Brazilian Watercoloursorganised by the Embassy of Brazil in association with IHC to showcase Brazilian art, culture and food with a view to strengthening ties between the two countries.
The effort coincides with the India visit of Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva.
In slow motion
Regina’s installation, mounted at the Visual Arts Gallery, is a new experience for Delhi art lovers. In “Lunar”, a very interesting work of art, one can see the constellation of bodies moving from one space to another in slow motion. In this eight minute installation, these heavenly bodies that Regina permits to be called as moon and earth, make several rounds to appear small, medium and big and move slowly against the backdrop of music, suggesting thunder, light, friction and also relaxation.
These round celestial bodies at times are pervaded by gray-black smoke as if a black cloud is hovering over the sun or the moon threatening to pour down.
Says Regina, who earlier used to paint and make sketches but is now known for her architectural interest, “My work is about the concept of illusion and reality. These are about cosmic spaces too. I use real and virtual spaces to create such installations.”
Regina agrees that Delhi art lovers are still new to such works of art. She started working on them around 1982.
Regina Silveria’s “Lunar”.
“These days installations are in demand. People buy them to create a different effect in one corner of their houses. Such development is very encouraging for the artists.”
Wire works
While at the Open Palm Court, Luiz Piza’s latest works on barbed wire weaved with colourful geometrical figures are mounted. Piza constructs and deconstructs these accumulated wires of various square sizes.
At one place they co-exist on a simple aluminium sheet, cut into a geometrical figure, at other places, they seem to transform into a small, open notebook.
One can see red, blue, green and yellow triangles, circles or rectangles peeping out of the barbed wire notebook, pasted on a board.
“He plays with various media – zinc, copper plates, collages, paper incisions, doormat and what not. He involves mathematics through geometrical figures in his art works,” says Maria who represented Piza in his absence.
For Delhi viewers, these works were not only different but a tad difficult to identify to an extent.
Modernists
Accepts Paulo Marcos De Moraes, Cultural Councillor, Embassy of Brazil, “We have brought our modernist artists to Indian art viewers, especially to expose them to our abstract works and installations. I believe such exchanges help in understanding each other’s artistic nuances."
Moraes says, "In my view India’s Amrita Shergill is similar to our 20th Century modernist artist, Tarsila Doamarad. But we can’t rest on similarities between our countries. We should be able to exchange dissimilar things too.”
The exhibition, curated by Alka Pande, needs to be viewed and experienced to be understood.
It concludes this Tuesday. The timings are from 10.a.m. to 7.30 p.m.
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