Mar 31 2024 to Apr 08 2024 10:30 a.m.

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Where

Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath

No.1, Art Complex, Kumarakrupa Rd, near The Lalit Hotel, Kumara Park East 560001

Event Description

The show title "The Pollen waits on Tiptoe" is inspired by the title of a translated book of 26 Kannada poems by the renowned Poet Da Ra Bendre, translated into English by Madhav Ajjampur. 

The exhibition will feature various mediums, including painting, sculpture, photography, and mixed media artworks. The exhibition will be divided into 9 sections with each room dedicated to one of the Navarasas with 2 artists for each Rasa and 3 for a few Rasa's. Each section will feature artworks that explore a specific Rasa/emotion, its Visual representation and the complexity of its expressions. The exhibition aims to showcase the myriad of human emotions, as well as the unique ways in which artists can interpret and represent them. while also addressing the sub-context around socio-political, ecological and personal challenges that artists experience and come across in their lives.

Rasa is explained as the emotional state of mind, the purity of emotion, to be shared with the ‘Rasika’ or viewer, partaking in the artist’s expression and interpretation and sharing the moment in a particular state of mind.

Details of some of the artists participating in the show ( From a total of 21 artists)

1. V.G Venugopal- Representing the Adbutha/wonder quality of Nature which is fragile yet that can continue to sustain when there is no human intervention.

2. Dimple B Shah- Her work is conceptualized with eco-feminist perspectives, concerning ecology and coexistence and bringing forth misuse & overconsumption of natural resources, responding to Bhayanaka/Fear rasa.

3. Raghu Kondur-  Addressing Urbanization and human desires that have taken over territories of nature, which may lead to abhorrence (Bibhatsya) in the future. 

4. Sukanya Garg- works represent Karuna/compassion emotion, whose works illustrate self-love & healing and go deep into the human cosmos at a cellular level with very intricately detailed works. drawing a parallel between the universal cosmo with the human body as its cosmic entity that is made up of billions of cells. 

5. Shivaprasad KT- Narrating story through a cultural perspective of Pili Pathera ( Tigers Story ) where men dress up and act as a tiger addresses the conflict between Humans and the animal world where man is pretending to be the Hero/Veera Rasa

6. Pradeep Kumar DM - He is narrating the current political situation that we find ourselves in the present scenario with communal tension only increasing through the Bhayanaka/Fear Rasa

7. Amrita Nambiar- She is primarily inspired by nature and combines the various disciplines of Art, Design & Craft in creating her works. In this particular series, she is portraying the adbutha/wonder quality of mushrooms, and its role in the ecological aspect which sustains life. 

8. Akshay Mali - Being vulnerable and being true to oneself through his photographs, where he positions himself precariously takes courage hence representing the Veera/Valour courage rasa.