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Men are at work outside the Kalakriti Art Gallery with their shovels and pickaxes raising a cloud of dust as Omsoorya talks on his cellphone and walks out of the room he is working on a canvas after a long, thoughtful longing stare. With his scraggy beard, half-rimmed glasses and youthful appearance he looks more like a student hanging out at an art gallery rather than the artist in residence that he is.
After a cellchat, he returns to the canvas, which is a miniature Hyderabad or any other city with its undulating landscape and the blighted buildings rising like fungus on stale bread. It looks like the continuum of his earlier canvas where the landmarks of cities like New York, Paris and London found place in one space. If the earlier work had a blues effect, this one is more colourful, testified by the acrylic tubes lying near the easel and sharing space with wet brushes. In the foreground of the canvas is a halo on the ground with a lone, withered man lying like a dead body as the roots of a tree run through him and into the ground. "That's resurrection. There's hope in my subjective landscape where the sun hasn't set but the light is gone," says Omsoorya about his evolving work. The artist in residence programme is no holiday for Omsoorya, whose terms of contract involve creating at least two paintings that are for keeps by the gallery where he would be working for one week.
As the programme involves interaction with art lovers, the obvious question is "what's his next piece going to be?" "It will be a continuation of my current work, the philosophy will be the same and experimentation with space, but there will be a different method," says Omsoorya.
SERISH NANISETTI
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