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Nine sculptors from all over the country are brought together by Gallery
Beyond at Subodh Kerkar’s studio to re-invent, record, process and
sometimes ephemerally realign the times we live in.
Art camps or workshops, in the good old fashioned way, are still
sometimes, one of the few ways for the art fraternity to meet,
communicate and exchange ideas. Films/silides, of the participating
artists are collectively viewed and discussed. New ideas, exchange of
techniques and information of what is happening from the various parts
of the country that the artists have come from find a place in the
discussions. A lot of them are today traveling the world over visiting
and participating in the art fairs. A showing at the end of the camp
gives the artists and viewers a chance to meet.
Photos:
http://bit.ly/cxKfXL
While Subodh is in and out, attending other previously committed
workshops and meeting deadlines, Vibhuraj of Gallery Beyond takes over
the temporal ‘comfort-bubble’ in which the artists let themselves go and
create, stretch and re-invent themselves.
Prithpal Singh Ladi from Shillong, is the senior-most and
internationally well-known. He has come back to Goa after 32 years with
his charming wife and son. He is working on a ‘Pandora’s box’, a
menagerie of memories of what Goa was and has become.
Reghunandhan from Kochi is putting in form his concerns of over
populations, may be depletion of nature in the form of a steep hill
(vertical migration), while homes rub shoulders with factories, coconut
palms with trains, the whole teeming with the most unlikely neighbors.
Subodh Kerkar is working on a series of heads reflecting each other,
talking of may be Narcissus to begin with, but taking on definite
overtures to masquerades and facades.
Puneet Kaushik from Delhi takes the fragility of his stainless steel
woven images to yet another level. The workshop has allowed him to
literally think out of the box and bring into his oeuvre materials he
had not flirted with earlier. The very resin in conjunction with his
wired images, colour, old letters and while in Goa, of course the boats,
fragile autumn like leaves speaking volumes of the teeming humanity who
is in and out of Goa, realizing dreams, spent dreams.
Viraj Naik is eking out an Elfin-like adult with a single horn on his
head, perhaps talking about the demons within each of us.
Pradeep Naik, a father of just a few weeks is understandably overwhelmed
by little cherubs and God-like heads.
Ratna Gupta from Mumbai is continuing her quest of mapping the DNA of
trees – her fear being that the years to come, may be that’s all you
might get to see.
Shiv Kumar from Ahmedabad, a master printmaker, has for the past some
years been involved in children’s theatre and of late, designing
eco-friendly (bamboo) toys. The magic he creates with ordinary wire
mesh speaks volumes for this young man’s talent.
Karl Antao from Ahmedabad, is known for his very surrealistic imagery.
One is still not clear of what image he might throw up in this workshop.
This ten days workshop seems to be throwing up sculptures which might
turn out to be the milestones in the history of workshops.
The works from this workshop will be on display at the Kerkar Art
Complex, Calangute from the 24th February 2010 for a month.
Photos:
http://bit.ly/cxKfXL
SOURCE: Kerkar Art Complex
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