The opening suite of abstract exploration demonstrates a symphony of colour and form, through the perception of space placed in the expression of experience. The fifteen artist practitioners come together as mid career doyennes fielding small works of an amorphous identity in context and content. Witness the works of Anwar and one can feel the ocean’s breakwaters crashing on shore and petering into rhythmic musicality. Tarry a while before Akhilesh’s forms in pen and ink, translating the dormant integrity of individual characteristics into a networking of black-and-white images. In Anant Nikam’s offering, the floating flotsam, awash on the painted surface, subdues viewers’ minds with their monochromatic tint. In the sharp play of geometry in Harsh Vardhan Swaminathan’s works one experiences a certain motif of the fragrance of folk art symbolism. Travel along the visual drama of Kali Charan Gupta and you see a rhyming movement of eye and hand through rare kinetics. Madan Lal’s images lend themselves to musical interpretations, not as rhythm but as primordial Naad, Rasa and Raga. While Manish Pushkale’s works engage with colour applications that emanate subtly. Nupur Kundu’s images gyrate to the rhythm of dance in swathes of primary colours. Contrast that with the dance explorations of Shridhar Iyer, in a cogent rendering of the arts via a two-dimensional vocabulary in minimalism. Sudip Roy’s visual abstracts speak to us in the layers of the seen and the unseen, creating their own corollary of conversations that sift and sieve through time. Tavleen Kaur’s works comprise dazzling colourations, which profoundly integrate with viewers. In Yusuf, one must stop one’s tracks to examine how form and the abstracted tenor of linear quality both meld. In many ways this show is an appetizer, a teaser that shows a single shaft of the many moments and movements that will unravel. Last but not least, tarry over the misty lyricism of poet/artist Sangeeta Gupta’s works to imbibe the deeper essence of the soul, via the language of abstracts in redolent hues suggestive of lacquered surfaces.
- By Subhra Mazumdar