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Kathmandu,Monday May 01, 2000 Baishakh 19, 2057.
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Various art exhibitions on show
By a Post Reporter
KATHMANDU, April 30 - The Nepal Art Council today
inaugurated the oil paintings of first time painter, Devina Malla. Various people from the
art world wished her success in her new venture.
At the opening, former PM Krishna Prasad Bhattarai
hinted that he would soon be releasing a book of his own. He said that no specific date
for publication was set but that it would most likely be sometime in mid May.
When asked about the subject matter of the book, he
said he was not willing to answer the question, keeping coy about it.
Meanwhile, altogether 34 paintings of Malla are on
display at the council and some of the money raised from the sale of the paintings will go
to various social service organisations and to the library of The British School.
The exhibition is on display till 5 may.
Another art exhibition in Baber Mahal Revisited
artworks by Deepak Shrestha and Japanese artist, Shoko Kashiwano is set to kick off on
Monday.
The exhibition, jointly entitled Nature, Paper
& Art and New Beginnings at the Siddhartha Gallery, features traditional style oil
paintings and Ikebana type installations by Kashiwano as well as the less traditional type
of paper art by Shrestha.
Shrestha, who held a successful exhibition four
years ago at the Goethe Institute, says that he uses various objects from nature such as
straw, red and black soil, threads and sun flower seeds and puts them onto Nepali paper to
create a kind of collage of elements from nature.
Asked what his aims were, he said "I just play
with nature and paper and try to present my feelings and convey a sense of peace through
my work."
His three dimensional art using elements from
nature at times depicts states of decay as in the piece entitled Nirvana, where twigs
resembling empty rib cages are placed on a burnt black smeared surface.
Kashiwano, on the other hand, with exprience of
interior designing in Japan, shows small canvasses done in soft bright colours where
children are her focus.
The last time she held a major exhibition was
around 10 years ago in Japan.
She says that she looks for the themeless,
emphasising that it is the specific moment that inspires her. This could be expressed with
paint or even through Ikebana she says.
The show is on for an indefinite period and will be
opened by a dance routine by Japanese dancer, Haruka Nairo, who is currently studying
Indian classical dance in Delhi.
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