This art exhibition at Chennai’s DakshinaChitra blends local with modern and post-modern styles

This art exhibition at Chennai’s DakshinaChitra blends local with modern and post-modern styles

Artist Chandrasekaran Gurusamy | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement There is something fiery about artist Chandrasekaran Gurusamy’s pencil sketches at DakshinaChitra’s Varija Gallery. Rivers of gazes, deconstructed bodies, faceless gods, portraits devoid of the oculus — in essence, spill over from the frame, lending the gallery fires of the artist’s subversion and dissent.  A sketch by […]

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This art exhibition at Chennai’s DakshinaChitra blends local with modern and post-modern styles

This art exhibition at Chennai’s DakshinaChitra blends local with modern and post-modern styles

Artist Chandrasekaran Gurusamy | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement There is something fiery about artist Chandrasekaran Gurusamy’s pencil sketches at DakshinaChitra’s Varija Gallery. Rivers of gazes, deconstructed bodies, faceless gods, portraits devoid of the oculus — in essence, spill over from the frame, lending the gallery fires of the artist’s subversion and dissent.  A sketch by […]

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Chennai sculptor PS Nandhan’s retrospective show looks at the glory days of Madras Art Movement

Chennai sculptor PS Nandhan’s retrospective show looks at the glory days of Madras Art Movement

Sculptor PS Nandhan at his studio in Cholamandal Artists’ Village in Chennai | Photo Credit: SHAJU JOHN A childlike joy sneaks up on sculptor and artist PS Nandhan whenever he speaks of his art. Eyes lit up, he traces his now-frail fingers along lines that once were starting points to an amorphous figure in stone, […]

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