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An abstract look at colours
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A clutch of paintings with colour, gold and mirror-work
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WILD IMAGINATION A Rathin Kanji creation
The abstracts have taken over Daira Art Gallery. A clutch of paintings and some art works from Atiya Amjad's basement collection have been pulled out for this show called Kriya.
At one of the spectrum are the four canvasses of Hukum Lal Varma that are an unvarnished splash of primary colours on the canvas. The brush strokes are laboured and the layers of colours too involved to suggest a virtuoso. The shading is too delicate for any meaning to emerge.
At the other end are Faiza Huma's works that are scattering of images delicately perched in an all-encompassing off-white background. Step back and read your own meaning.
Neha Ved Pathak's works are arresting for the sheer gimmickry involved. The rather smallish canvasses are diffused with an inner glow. Even when the gallery lights are switched off, the untitled paintings are alive with a halo radiating outwards from the centre. A circular piece of mirror in the middle and a golden varnish do the trick for Neha.
Continuing the gimmicky line in abstracts is L.N.V. Srinivas' brawl of colours with daubs of golden leaves and patterns running through the other colours. Now what would that suggest? One never knows.
Cut out the gimmicks and abstracts have a way of communicating with people. Either they can suggest the thoughts running through the painter's mind when he added the layers of colours creating a form, or they can suggest the absence of form and chaos in the canvas of life.
Rathin Kanji's work is one such line. Dating from the 2001 and '02 period when the artist was obsessed with red, yellow and the meaning of black within it, and before he was commissioned by a gallery in San Francisco, the two works on display stand out.
The artist's work now commands a premium, as the paintings are being dealt with only the gallery in San Francisco. Grab them before someone bids for them online.
SERISH NANISETTI
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