Hyderabad, Jan 9: : Four of India’s eminent artists who are into different mediums of fine art shared their ideas and experiences at Krishnakriti2016, revealing a whole range of aesthetics that have kept evolving within them to the benefit of the country’s contemporary visual culture.
While pioneering graphic novelist Orijit Sen presented at length on Friday evening his ongoing work on changing Hyderabad, senior sculptor Ravinder Reddy gave a power-point presentation of his sculptures that he has been working since graduation days. Young Prathap Modi gave students a brief training in woodwork art, while sexagenarian sculptor Valsan Kollery had an interactive session with art scholar Dhritabrata Bhattacharjya Tato after holding a workshop on sculpting and sketching.
The 12th edition of January 7-10 Krishnakriti Festival of Art and Culture featuring art workshops, installation exhibition, film festival, music, dance and literary sessions among others is being organised by the Krishinakriti Foundation which is into promotion of culture and education in a big way.
Delhi-based Sen, who is an alumnus of National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad, said his upcoming book—presenting the many layers of this city of nizams having now become an IT hub—would go much beyond nostalgia.
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| Ravinder Reddy interactive with the audience |
“It is always interesting to note how residents of a locality adapt themselves to new situations. In any case, places are a big area of my interest,” he said, showing on the screen some of Hyderabad’s most changing streets around the famed Charminar.
The 52-year-old artist, who had spent his high-school days in this city, also noted that residents of urban pockets generally fail to notice certain key visual features around. “I know people who go to buy milk from their nearby shop, unmindful of a big tree under which they queue up,” he added.
Reddy, who hails from Suryapet which is known as the Gateway of Telangana and learned his art from MS University at Baroda, pointed out how he has over the years simplified his art with lesser features when it comes to sculptors-small and huge-made largely with fibre, besides using bronze and terracotta.
“Search of one’s of style is a major thing in the life of an artist. Normally it doesn’t come pre-meditated—definitely not with me,” he said in a 30-minute interaction where he showed pictures of his major works over the past four decades.
Modi, who has a Masters’ in visual art from the same institution in Gujarat, gave a breezy training to over 50 students at his workshop as part of the festival here.
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| Artist - Prathap Modi displaying his work |
The 33-year-old artist wound up the session by showing his own portrait he finished during the course of the interaction.
Kerala-born Valsan, 62, said the concept of pyramid has been a major obsession in his art, leading him to do an inverted version of the structure at the 2nd edition of Kochi-Muziris Biennale that concluded in April 2014.
“Time is our biggest enemy,” he said. “But when should not keep regretting a lost past. Look at the future.”
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