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New Yorkers are getting a taste of Telangana
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ART IN NEW YORK The painting titled Whisper
For a week, New Yorkers are going to get a bite of India as the works of 12 artists are on show at the Stone Scene Gallery at 102 Woodhollow Road. Curated by Vinitha Shetty and Nitasha Shetty, the show titled Indian Ink- Fables, colours and revelry has most of the artists from Hyderabad bridging a generation from Thota Vaikuntam to Laxman Aelay and Sajid Bin Amar. The paintings showcase the oeuvre of each artist in the best light possible.
On show is this acrylic on paper by D. Ananthaiah called Whisper. As the bright light suffuses from the centre, a lone bird is bathed in the light as it surveys the scene. Then there is Bairu Raghuram's brown ink on paper of a shepherd. The man with bulging eyes drawn with delicate loving detail and a patterned turban waiting for his buffaloes.
There is also Laxman Aelay's Song of the Village, which shows another shepherd turbaned, carrying the sickle stick, thick silver bangles and a similar banian. The sharply drawn, Rythu by Vaikuntam is another take on the rural hinterland showing a moustachioed farmer waiting for things to happen. Captured in a pensive mood, the farmer can be representative of any Indian in agrarian landscape. The standout piece is an acrylic on wood by Fawad Tamkanat which is an enigmatic three-dimensional work with a woman staring back at the viewer.
She could easily a woman from a royal court or an ordinary woman with her large vacant eyes and a curiously convoluted backdrop. The pieces done in different styles with different subjects appear disparate but if you know the contours of Telangana then you can overlay the paintings on the landscape and the culture and people of the land comes out in sharp relief.
SERISH NANISETTI
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