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Spacescape Ravi Gossain’s balloons in the space

The series called ‘Celebrating Space’ has paintings most of them done over the past few months.

Instead of using space as another forbidding frontier, he sees it as a space that’s out of the window. There he sees the planets as swirling balls of colour, sunflowers the size of football-fields or even bigger dwarfing the planets, or planets that are almost like cuddly balloons.

Instead of faster drying acrylics, Ravi uses oils. The result a texture that stays and shows the effort and the creative process of the artist. Though the delineations are sharp, almost geometric, it is not a fine brush that Ravi uses but a big fat brush where he splashes broad strokes to canvases that can have the effect akin to watching a movie in Imax theatre sitting in the front row.

Elsewhere, in the narrow corridor of Taj Krishna, Rashmi Kothari is showing her works in various media.

Trying to simplify the conception of art and whittling it down to basic lines, simple motifs and patterns, Rashmi goes pretty far with her stated aim.

If the series called Maa has the mother motif executed in flowing lines, then Nritya has simple arched lines that give a whiff of dance and Masks is an in your face series that is suggestive of the overwhelming colours and slits for the eyes. Using Hindi words to suggest the medium and the motifs like Kalaapyog, Kalash, Vastraakar and Varnkala, Rashmi gives a roundedness to her cultural ambition.

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