Degree Show 2023 by students of the College of Fine Arts in Thiruvananthapuram explores a melange of emotions

Degree Show 2023 by students of the College of Fine Arts in Thiruvananthapuram explores a melange of emotions

Almost every evening Soumya VN comes across a group of men near her home at Mangattukadavu, whiling away their time, gossiping and gawking at passers-by. That was the inspiration for her acrylic work, ‘Gossips’, on display at the College of Fine Arts’ Degree Show 2023. “I find that gossip is a term unreasonably associated with […]

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Sculpture exhibition Sands of Time II, on view at Hyderabad’s Kalakriti Art Gallery, explores fluidity of time

Sculpture exhibition Sands of Time II, on view at Hyderabad’s Kalakriti Art Gallery, explores fluidity of time

They are Resting at Their Destination by Archisman Roy, as part of Sands of Time II at Kalakriti Hyderabad | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Time, fluid and pausing for none, serves as an archive for political and social histories, containing within it both personal and collective experiences. Sands of Time II, the sculpture exhibition mooted […]

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Scrap turns into sculptures at Coimbatore’s Periyakulam

Scrap turns into sculptures at Coimbatore’s Periyakulam

Installations of car and gramophone at Ukkadam Periyakulam | Photo Credit: Siva Saravanan S A 13-feet-tall replica of a vintage gramophone gleaming with a coat of rain-proof paint is already a show stopper at Ukkadam Periyakulam or Coimbatore Big Tank. Artist Ramkumar Kannadasan along with his team, including artists R Yesvandaran and S Sarathkumar have […]

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Ceramist Rahul Kumar’s installations in his new show are a deviation from his previous experiments with clay

Ceramist Rahul Kumar’s installations in his new show are a deviation from his previous experiments with clay

The aesthetic core of ceramic artist Rahul Kumar’s fresh-off-the-wheel artwork, displayed at New Delhi’s gallery Exhibit 360, lies in expressing the obscure with abstract. His 10th solo exhibition of ceramics, The Untold Resides Somewhere, is a labyrinth of emotive, lexical and metaphorical expressions for “preserving the discarded and communicating by not telling”. He says, “Is […]

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Group show in Thiruvananthapuram by 11 artists features experiments with mediums and themes

Group show in Thiruvananthapuram by 11 artists features experiments with mediums and themes

An exhibition of paintings, sculptures and installation by 11 up-and-coming young artists is on at Amuseum art gallery in the city. These exhibits are entries submitted for K P Krishnakumar Young Artist Award, instituted by the gallery for emerging visual artists in memory of sculptor KP Krishakumar. Bineesh Narayanan, Dhanya VV, Ebin PR, Midhun J, […]

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