BC Gallery presents solo exhibition ‘ Wood of Suicides ‘ by KP Pradeepkumar ,from Feb 20th till March 20th.
KP Pradeepkumar is an independent visual artist works between Kochi and Baroda for a decade. He did his BFA from College of Fine Arts Thiruvananthapuram early nineties, he had been working and exhibiting in and around the country and he has received many awards for his pursuit of perception.
The show title ‘Wood of Suicides’ originate from Dante Alighieri’s14th-century epic poem Divine Comedy. Allegorically, the Divine Comedy represents the journey of the soul towards God, with the Inferno describing the recognition and rejection of sin. Dante describes a tortured wood infested with harpies, where the act of suicide is punished by encasing the offender in a tree, thus denying eternal life and damning the soul to an eternity as a member of the restless living dead, and prey to the harpies. Italian Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli c. 1480, and English poet, painter and print maker William Blake (1757–1827) illustrates a passage from the Inferno title as ‘The Wood of the Self-Murderers: The Harpies and the Suicides’ as a pencil, ink paper artwork series.
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