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Art or a craft?
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The experiments with yarns and fabrics are interesting
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Art’s sake Different hues on different fabrics
We all know quilts and carpets, that is our tradition and so many tales have been woven around them. Now, three artists go back to the weaving tradition to create their own art. But is it art or a craft?
That’s the thin line of divide as you see the works of Ivana, Somava and Sweta now on show at the Kalakriti Art Gallery.
See Sweta’s piece titled Sensation –VI and it is obvious that she has experimented with more than a piece of fabric. With an interlay of shiny red contoured rexene that has a lighter red fabric background on a big frame with a big blob of long clothed thing in the middle. In other works, she uses thick ropes and fabrics to create abstract forms.
“In my works I have tried to reveal the invisible bonds of nature and man. I have tried to sow the seeds of inner feelings and emotions for nature in man’s heart,” writes Somava Dutt about her works which are more flatter and have the feel of crochet and home stitching as she lets herself do an interplay of small objects and human forms. Not for her the dramatic effect of Sweta’s big pieces in small shapes with a good amount of intricacy, she manages to make her point.
Ivana’s works are experiments in linearity. Using a range of yarns from wool to jute to thick cotton ropes, she has created rectangles and squares that are stretched onto taut square frames.
SERISH NANISETTI
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