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Metamorphosis
Three artists of different genre come together to bring out their creations in a common theme
By THAKUR AMGAI
Works of three artists Sunil Sigdel, Gopal Das Shrestha, aka Gopal Kalapremi and Saroj Bajracharya have decorated the walls and floors of the Siddhartha Art Gallery .
Saroj Bajracharya
Bajracharya’s paintings attempt to search meaning to human life. Each of his paintings has a story behind it all revolving around changes that human feelings, opinion and experiences they go through. “Time is most powerful,” he says adding “With the change of time, human feelings, experience and idea undergo metamorphosis.”
Large paintings with acrylic in water use variety of forms. There are small and large blocks scattered all over the canvases. Saroj says the blocks represent the time. And with the time, the human forms in part and full – distinct and abstract represent the situations of happiness and distress.
Sunil Sigdel
Sigdel’s paintings are a search for your existence and meaning to life. He extensively uses feminine forms in different postures. Sigdel says the feminine form is related to the emotional side of a being while, the masculine form is related to the logical one. And one certainly needs to stimulate the emotional side to search for a meaning to life. Sunil’s paintings do exactly the same. The abstract paintings on Acrylic and on mixed media converse with the viewer to search the internal feelings of human beings. The series of paintings “Conversation Through Silence” works as the facilitator for viewers to converse with his innermost feelings.
His creation “Time Hole” on mixed media subtly expresses the metamorphosis of the feelings on the objects around you. He has used a piece of wood that was a part of his grandfather’s ‘sandoosh’ (a wooden box used to store valuables). “It was lying under the cowshed and I thought it would come to this use.”
Simple and complex mathematical figures and formulae scribbled all over his paintings depict the random expressions of the human unconscious mind.
Gopal Kalapremi
Kalapremi, who is renowned for his rakus has come out with sculptures of different kind. This time, unlike in his previous exhibitions where he used to have sculptures under a common theme, the raku ceramic sculptures showcase a variety of forms. Most of them are semi abstract human forms open to interpretations to the viewer. While, the other sculptures are a softer expressions compared to his previous exhibition of broken plates – where he depicted the current situation of the country as heartrending, sculptures depicting the contemporary human faces show even more depressing situation of the country. Over two dozen human faces of various sizes lying on the sand-bed on the upper floor of the Gallery compels any viewer to think about the victims of the on going conflict and the political instability.
The exhibition of the three artists is worth viewing. The paintings and sculptures hold the attention of the viewers for hours - even the ones who normally do not appreciate art.
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