Metro Plus
Bangalore
Chennai
Hyderabad
Five women and a few animals
|
Feminine and feline forms at a painting show by five women
|
When five women team up and mount an art show called Panchkanya, expect a few surprises. So, at Shrishti Art Gallery, right at the entrance is Asha Radhika's acrylic on canvas brushed alive with a light palette, images of domestic bliss with animistic symbols flitting in and out. They range from a girl on a swing with a mother cradling a baby in her lap, a girl riding an ostrich, a young girl enveloped by the trunk of an elephant.
Besides the animistic images scattered on the canvasses she uses a pattern of flowers to unify her body of work on show. An awesome amount of detailing adds depth to Asha's canvasses.
Geetha Kekobad uses huge, melancholic and haunting eyes to grab the viewer into spending more time on the canvas. She too uses minimalistic flowers for continuity except for a change from Asha's bigger flowers to Geetha's smaller three-petalled ones. But hey! If you step closer to Asha's canvas, the flowers reveal themselves to be actually fishes (tiger barbs minus the stripes). She also splays animistic symbols on her canvas: a parrot here, a tiger there, a cat here, a bird there, as the feminine form dominates. She deconstructs symmetry to get to the bone of the subject.
Latha Marur continues her love affair with the Deccan plateau albeit on a bigger canvas. Instead of the paper and pencil show she mounted a few years back, she has used charcoal on canvas. She has imbued the rock formations with a symmetry where if you step back and take in the bigger image you will see animistic image.
This symbolism in its varied hues gives a definite unity to the show by the five women coming from different backgrounds and sensibilities.
Renuka Kesaramudu dabbles in acrylic on canvas to create feminine forms. The quick drying acrylics give a buff tone as Renuka paints hair, birds and the usual leaves and petals (though different from the other painters' works) to bring alive her paintings.
Vipta Kapadia charts a different track as she pauses and paints gloomy landscapes for her diptych and quadtych. The oils on canvas lend a shiny quality but the blobs of paint with multiple layers make them appear like seascapes in the night or landscapes in twilight.
SERISH NANISETTI
Printer friendly
page
Send this article to Friends by
E-Mail
Metro Plus
Bangalore
Chennai
Hyderabad
|
