Mystical Renditions art exhibition will be held from March 12th to April 12th at Shrishti Art Gallery,Hyderabad.
A group art show featuring art work by Anand Gadapa, Ramesh Gorjala, Nirmala Baluka, Bharath Yadav and Manjunath Kalladevara is being held at Shrishti Art Gallery in Jubilee Hills. The art show titled Mystical Renditions, is an attempt to redefine mythological notions by translating the temporal paradigms.
Mystical Renditions’ at Shrishti Art Gallery is worth a close look to understand how different artists dip into mythology and reinterpret an ideology, an episode from a story or observe how people react to myths and faith.
At one end there are vibrant, fine drawings by Ramesh Gorjala — Vishnu showing his 10 avatars, paintings retelling the stories of Hanuman, Krishna and Ganesha. Gorjala uses the intricate kalamkari method to arrive at a pictorial depiction of several stories from the myths.
Anand Gadapa, on the other hand, draws viewers’ attention to lesser explored dimensions of Ravana. One of his paintings is titled ‘The hegemonist’, and through another fluid watercolour painting he shows Ravana playing the veena, as Shiva dances on his tongue. Gadapa’s series urges us to look at the epic without notions of black and white characters.
While Gorjala uses kalamkari, Nirmala Biluka’s work is inspired by other folk arts, from tantric art to Tibetian Buddhist tangka paintings that use the feminine imagery. Nirmala’s ‘Made in India’ series has large watercolour works at the centre of which is a female form, sometimes in a meditative posture. She could be Shakti, signifying power and energy, or nature.
With flat brush strokes Nagesh Goud paints the Kamadhenu, and a series of sadhus in deep hues of red and black.
Sayam Bharat Yadav also have rich hues, the small paintings that use acrylic on paper board focusing on a tiger, a cow and the larger canvas titled Celebration portrays a luminous Durga, with light reflected from artificial lights used in a procession. The artist uses a technique similar to Rajput miniature paintings, increasing the scale for his canvas.
Arresting works come from Manjunath Kalledevara. He presents a Japa series, created from photographs of kumbh mela. He replicates the images several times, juxtaposes them with mirror images to arrive at new artistic possibilities. In one we see a man washing a garment by the ghats and in another, we see the faces of several Nagas. The images are replicated over and over, and accentuated by ash grey, wheatish brown and orange hues using German etching on fine art archival paper, to arrive at a floral formation. Besides these works that use customised photographs, Manjunath also paints the different faces of lord Shiva, and an ash-hewn Naga sadhu sporting many strings of rosary.
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