About a week ago one of the first readers of my blog who is both a mathematician and photographer, visited me here in Bangalore. Conversation was
very interesting and varied (mathematics isn't about adding and subtracting, it is about patterns!),there was a wonderful exchange of opinions and a very thoughtful gift of a beautiful seedpod.My visitor was a Mumbikar and I was pleased when he specifically
requested Filter Coffee since he had seen it featured on my blog. The kind of filter coffee you get at a South Indian home will never be found elsewhere!
I took my visitor to the beautiful National Gallery of Modern Art. The picture of the tree above is taken by him. At the National Gallery there was a wonderful exhibition
of sculptures by a South Indian Sculptor KS Radhakrishnan. The show is titled
Mapping with Figures and is on till the 27th of December. Unlike
most of the dreary work I’ve seen by popular fine artists from this corner of
the world, the work of KS Radhakrishnan was vibrant and invigorating to look
at. I liked the work so much that I made time to go there yet again and sketch
the sculptures. While I wanted to come home and improve on the drawings
further, it will be a while before I do so. Until then, here are some of the
pictures from the show. Far better pictures of the works can be seen on the
website of this artist over here >>
The shadows created by these sculptures are as beautiful as the works themselves. They form a part of the artwork by lending their beauty to it.
I am glad that NGMA brings us massive well curated shows by these wonderful artists which we in the South would not have gotten to see otherwise. Their efforts are indeed commendable. So far I've seen exhibitions by Ram Kinker Baij, KK Hebbar, Amrita Sher Gill and now KS Radhakrishnan. Good art leaves you with a sense of fulfillment. I only wish the quirky little circus side shows in the name of fine art that keep popping up and bursting like soap bubbles within this city had more integrity and substance. It is always sincerity rather than showmanship that endures.
2 comments:
That was amazingly wonderful!
What a fabulous exhibit this is. It is wonderful to see good art and to see NGMA putting up a well curated one. " Sincerity rather than showmanship that endures"...Ain't that the truth!! So relevant in the art world..and maybe also in life huh??
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