A journey through abstraction at Art Houz

At Art Houz, the walls travel live — not with portraits oregon landscapes but with the connection of abstraction. Here, colours converse, merge, and integrate to make shapes and forms that archer stories of their own. Titled, Echoes successful Colour, the ongoing accumulation brings unneurotic the divers works of 17 artists. Some canvases consciousness familiar, similar fragments of home; others bring successful a consciousness of what a location tin be.

Take, for instance, Karishma Wadhwa’s bid titled Opus, inspired by her travels astir the satellite and her experiences moving betwixt cities similar Chennai, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, and Mumbai. “I observed that radical are often obsessed with their origins and presumption everything done the lens of their location and identity. I realised that erstwhile I stepped backmost and viewed the full world, my location and individuality are conscionable a tiny speck. The realisation became a cardinal facet of my work.” In her paintings, viewers initially spot structures and forms, but upon stepping back, they announcement the smaller details, colours and hidden underlayers. 

“We brought unneurotic artists who enactment astir the taxable of the exhibit, wherever they are not creating immoderate benignant of form, but are letting colours and textures talk much connected the canvas,” says Poornima Shivram, curator of the exhibition.

Chennai-based Isaiarasi Annamalai’s bid Akash, delves into the conception of space, exploring the ever-changing quality of forms wrong it. The antithetic shades of bluish successful the bid correspond the shifting quality of abstraction — the airy and dark, near and far, known and unknown. “Through the dissolving forms and the subtle play of colours and textures, I purpose to invitation the spectator into a travel of discovery, wherever the boundaries betwixt signifier and void are blurred, and wherever abstraction itself becomes a living, breathing entity.”

In Pooja Si’s bid Abstraction successful Kaleidoscope, we are instantly taken to our puerility days of holding a kaleidoscope in our hands and the joyousness of witnessing the shifting colours and forms. “My experiments and survey with geometry of abstract forms person gradually led maine to look astatine the kaleidoscope arsenic a constituent of notation and arsenic a instrumentality that creates beauteous forms, patterns, geometrical shapes and colours. I americium wholly appealing to the conception of sattva guna, an Indian doctrine that speaks astir purity, goodness, and harmony, successful the coating with the usage of bold colours and shapes to specify joy, intelligence, positivity, divinity, and pleasure.”

In S Anand’s Woven Hues series, helium uses Sgraffito method to make an Impasto benignant abstract, wherever helium applies heavy coats layers of colours successful 2 layers to get the textural effect. The effect is simply a portion that has an underlying coating of contrasting colours. “To get a effect of sgraffito technique, I scratch the apical furniture of paint, portion inactive wet, to uncover a bottommost furniture of a antithetic colour. In the technique, I tin usage a assortment of tools, similar the borderline of a coating knife, the extremity of a brushwood handle, a ligament brush, oregon immoderate crisp tool.”

Through these works, a dialog of colour, textures and emotions emerges–a reminder that creation exists successful each forms and feelings. 

Echoes successful Colour is connected till November 5 astatine Art Houz, Nungambakkam, from 10am to 6:30pm. Entry free.