Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Walking through the life


The second exhibition by a Samuha member (July 22 to August 1) was "Stride" by Prakash L Probably intending to offer an experience of the artist walking through life, accepting its imagery, people, moods and issues as well as more offering personal impressions and comments. Perhaps understandably in a still young painter exposed to a bewildering abundance of reality sights and artistic practices and concepts, the show appeared to be sincere and ambitious but somewhat disjointed in the number of different approaches to form and themes. It loosed as if Prakash wanted to accommodate the maximum of both without concentrating on a closer area that would allow not only consistency but also a convincing power. Instead, he landed close to formalism and a degree of pleasantness. The many large oils on canvas had images collaging, fragmenting and juxtaposing realistically represented elements of reality framed in geometric designs or surrounded by regions of abstraction. Sometimes they read literally about childhood innocence or the environment but sometimes one got lost in their metaphors. Why the titles were carved in three dimensions in stone is not clear except for the fashionable effect. Other works included an installation, flat and plastic images with mirrors, etchings and canvases in a graphic manner using text and its mirror image, also photographs with installation elements. Here too, one suspected a craving for strong impact more that anything else.

Article from Deccan Herald (Art Talk by Marta Jakimowicz)

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