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The art big-wigs from south have a collective display
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The techniques might be modern but the cultural ethos the art works reflect is of a world caught in a time warp.
WAY TO GO Rekha Rao's oil on canvas titled Seamstress on display at the State Gallery of Art
As the bull runs wild through the art world, is there someone, somewhere tracking the nebulous changes that are happening all the time? Check out the State Gallery of Art and take in an exhibition called Mapping South and you can see the different thought streams, colours and stylisation sweeping this part of the world. More importantly, there is a luxurious catalogue that creates the cultural context in which the paintings and sculpture have been placed.
The exhibition has the works of who's who of creative people from South ranging from C. J. Anthony Doss, K. M. Adimoolam, Babu Xavier, Suryaprakash, S. G. Vasudev, Paramsivam and 45 others. The works range from modernistic sculptures by Balan Nambiar to granite carvings by P.S. Nandan to paintings of rural realism by K. N. Ramachandran to Monetesque imagery of Surya Prakash and sensuous drapes of flesh by Anthony Doss.
The techniques might be ultra modern but the cultural ethos the paintings and the art works reflect is of a world caught in a time warp: A time before the plough was invented.
Aren't the works of nearly 50 artists, one of whom was born in 1932 another born in 1968 is too complicated an effort for anyone to grasp?
"I wanted to bring all the artists under one roof so that connoisseurs get a holistic image of art from South and not a piecemeal shows they have gotten used to," says Viji Nageswaran of Vinyasa Art Gallery that has mounted the show.
The standout pieces are the translucent modernistic works of Sisir Sahana that blend sculpturing with chemistry, the bronzes of Paramsivam, J. M. S. Mani's blobs of paint detailing rural life, the mindbending copper-brass creations of S. Nandagopal.
Spread across in three halls, it takes a lot of time to get the essence of the show.
The show is on till May 7. Catch it.
SERISH NANISETTI
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