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Shashi Shaha’s Collections
Senior artiste Shashi Shaha depicts his creations
By A CORRESPONDENT
As the country has been passing through a very critical phase of its history with many ups and downs in its course including violence and peace, tragedy and terror, people have their own ways to express them.
Unlike other common people, artist, novelist, short story writers and fiction writers can translate their imagination in the forms of book or canvas or papers. In recent times, from April uprising to twelve years long bloody conflict and political uncertainty, various writers and authors express it on their own way. Some stressed the tragic part of conflict other focused on revolutionary crazes, there are various ways to explain the event.
Every one has his\her own way to describe inner feelings. Some expresses it through skies and some through natures, Nepal’s renowned artist Shashi Shaha’s favorite is horses. In his long carrier as an artist, Shaha uses the horses to express as an anger, tragedy, frustration and change.
Following a long gap, Shaha came with his horse this time to depict the mood of conflict and its devastations consequences. With perfect combination of color and expression of horses, Shaha expressed his own inner feelings.
Some of his horses are crying loosing their patients and some horses have strange behavior in their expressions. Unlike in abstract paintings, the expressions delivered through the horses are so powerful that they tell every bit of emotional and other expressions.
Senior artist Shaha is not a new name in Nepalese art sector as he has been painting inner expressions of human society and human life for last many decades.
After long time, senior artist Shaha exhibited his paintings in the city. The solo exhibition titled “Retrospective: Celebrating Forty Years of Creativity” was organized at Sidddartha Art Gallery, Babarmahal. The paintings will be displayed for few more weeks.
Renowned for his creative paintings, Shaha, who always uses images of horses to express his inner feelings and imagination, has, this time, depicted the life of contemporary human society as well as the conflict-prone Nepal’s difficulties. His art Royal Massacre drawn in 2004 and Black Horse and the World Trade Center painted in 2006 depicted the tragic situation and human relations.
Senior artist Shaha’s paints horses in varied forms and varied natures. His horses represent fear, courage and progress. In his all paintings, he shown shadow of human terror and fear psychology.
As a modern artist, Shaha’s imagination is superb and his way of expressing inner feelings are very humane and concentrated in and around the human misery and life.
Among the contemporary artists, Shaha has a special place whose imagination and performance is very creative. His horses are always keenly observing the overall situation of Nepal.
In his paintings, artist Shaha described and expressed with his powerful instruments of paintings. In the art galleries of the valley, people see various kinds of painting exhibition; Shaha’s exhibition was first of its kind where one can see completely different postures and positions.
Whether it is normal or abnormal time, it does not make a much differences in the life of the artists who always observe every bit of incidents and describe them through their own inner feelings. Although senior artist Shaha came with his new paintings after a long gap, he is able to lure the heart of art lovers.
