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PREMA MANMADHAN
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Kashi Art Gallery celebrates its tenth anniversary with an exhibition that features the works of 36 artists.
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ECLECTIC COLLECTION: Some of the works on display at `Kashi 10 light years,' Kochi.
These are works you can’t afford to miss seeing, and they are on show till January 31. Kashi Art Gallery celebrates its tenth birthday with a feast for art lovers in Kerala. Anoop Scaria and Dorrie, who run the gallery, call the show ‘Kashi 10 light years.’
The 36 artists on show include the likes of T.V. Santhosh. The couple took more than a year to curate the show. Riyas Komu’s installation, ‘The Cult of the Dead and Memory Loss,’ which is 6.5 ft x 10 ft x 7.5 feet, has been honoured with a full room.
Another one by George Martin P.J. called ‘Drizzling Memory’ has a dozen or more curious green cats looking at a red metal bed with a huge kadai below it.
There are two installation pieces by Valsan Koorma Kollari. Material common to both is air. One has corrugated cardboard, and the other has copper wire and glass beads.
Chintan Upadhyay’s ‘Loss Innocence’ has a baby face, his signature figure, in fibreglass. Sudarshan Shetty’s yellow and pink slim chairs with ‘unlike’ legs set you thinking about conventional forms and rules. The installations are up for sale.
Flamboyant colours
Bose Krishnamachari’s flamboyant colours scream out in two works, ‘Stretched Bodies,’ while Rajan Krishnan’s huge rectangular canvas has morose rust colours depicting the dilapidated landscape awash in a glow.
The use of space in C. Bhagyanath’s work titled ‘Space and Ladder’ is astounding. He has put in a whole world there, using ladders. In the ocean of brown and mustard lines, spot as many as you can in the painting of T.M. Aziz, in a truly different style.
The untitled work of Upendranath T.R. in pen and acrylic combines skill and imagination.
An experimental work by Anup Mathew Thomas is a digital slideshow, showing all the ministers of the State cabinet in a profile format. The whole day, the projector keeps working and the faces keep taking their turns on the screen.
Zakkir Hussain’s ‘Sketches for Welcome to God’s Own Country 1, 2, 3’ spell out his comment on the State’s attitude to governance and city management.
The others whose works evoke equally evocative opinions on political, emotional and very personal issues are: Aji VN, Alex Mathew, Anant Joshi, Anil Kumar Janardhanan, Babu Xavier, C.V. Ramesh, Gayatri Gamuz, Gopikrishna Pulikavadi, Hema Upadhyay, Jyothi Basu, Jyothikumar, Mohandas N.N., Nijeena Neelambaram, N.N. Rimzon, Prajakta Palav, Reghunadhan K, Reji KP, Sheetal Gattani, Sosa Joseph, Sunil Gawde, Sunoj D, Suresh Jayaram, T.P. Premjee and Vivek Vilasini Yashwant Deshmukh.
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