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Aesthetic attitudes
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The collective effect of the group show on at the Durbar Hall Art Centre will leave you in deep thought
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Photo: H. Vibhu
Colour scheme From left, artists Bijukumar, Roy.C.C, Sanil Antony and Shihab
The group show at the Durbar Hall Art Centre shows four attitudes, of four artists. Shihab limits his frames to three straight colours, white, black and red. The reds again are reserved for long hose like forms or you might like to call them umbilica
l cords that link things. Shihab uses these to link a crow to some other object, uses them in trees, of course with black branches, and faces aplenty there are in the eight paintings, works in acrylic on canvas. The collective effect that they have on you is pain and an unrest that springs from the sparsely populated canvases.
Shihab is untutored in the art of drawing or painting. He has a brother who is an artist, but he works in the fisheries harbour and polishes furniture to earn his bread. “No, art is not my occupation though I would love to do so,” says Shihab. His untitled works cost Rs10, 000 a piece.
In the works of Bijukumar V.K, you experience a mysterious secret hiding in the half human figures. Majestic roosters have human faces and tables have four legs like all tables, but what the legs support is an animal, more like a deer than a bull, not a plain plank as in life. Most of his works have the bull as the metaphor, mostly sad, famished bulls. Sad faced blue bulls look at you, as if trapped in some time frame or other world. Just when you fail to find a bull in another painting, you find a fish instead, with a human. And there’s another human on all fours in yet another frame. Blue, brown and monotonous colours prevail in Bijukumar’s works.
Sanil Antony obviously likes it big. The frames are so huge that they almost proxy for a wall. These acrylics on canvas are colourful, but not in a blatant way. The tones are neither sharp nor dull, but always mixed in white. His lines are thick and the flowers and forms are reminiscent of a child’s rendezvous with paint and brush. Stand far away and view his paintings, then they begin to look really good.
Roy CC has put up five landscapes. He says he was in the Gulf countries for seven years and when he came back, he found the landscape changed where there were paddy fields, there were multi-storeyed flats, the mangroves had thinned and the land-water balance had tilted. One painting shows a house and a dry ‘thulasithara’, with the compound wall and the old style fence of live plants atop the wall.
Four artists and their individual aesthetic interpretations makes refreshing viewing.
P.M.
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