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Photo: C. Ratheesh Kumar

Varied perspectives Some of the art works at the exhibition

Pratual Dash’s landscapes put across his message of ‘man alone.’ One shows a man standing on a balcony looking out at the many smoking chimneys at a distance. Another painting has a forsaken table and a pattern made of stones.

Jenson Anto’s ‘On the Way’ seeks a muse in the abstract while ‘Image of the city as a blurring map,’ a water colour by Josh P.S., hints that the labyrinthine pathways that give the city its freedom make its prison too as you tread into the city guided by the grid of criss-crossing lines of a map.

The highlight of the exhibition was two digital print paintings titled ‘Zoom (in) every day I run on CNG.’ The first picture depicts an image on television, zoomed beyond the limit so as one can see only pixels of varying colours. One would want to zoom out, but finds that one cannot do so.

This painting seems to take a dig at the media that sometimes stretches the truth with a ‘take it or leave it’ attitude.

The second painting has one caught under an enormous flyover. Vinay K.D. creates a sense of depth, unsettling the viewer, making him feel that he is on the edge of an abyss.

The Nostalgia series by Prasad Raghavan pays homage to renowned filmmaker Tarkovsky. The series of three paintings has only one thing in common, the passage of time. It flows through the portrait of Tarkovsky, which spreads to the second work, which is a clock with its arms running backwards, and seeps into a church in the third work. The whole series reminds viewers of Tarkovsky’s work, ‘Sculpting in Time.’

George Martin’s ‘Sediments in Crucible’ is a large work of art with the images painted in a circle – images of a woman sleeping, women working, flowers, birds and everything in worship of life and nature. The sparse use of red and blue in the painting leaves a majestic quality to the painting.

Murali Cheeroth’s untitled painting of a man doing acrobatics against the background of a grid is also worth a second look.

The exhibition was held at Triva Art Gallery, Pattoor.

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