ArtWallah Festival
dal 7/7/2006 al 1/9/2006
Segnalato da
7/7/2006
ArtWallah Festival
Bamboo Lane Gallery, Los Angeles
Group show. The survey at the gallery, due to the limited space, will focus on selected paintings, photocollages and sculptures by 5 outstanding ArtWallah artists who, through their unique visual voices, East and the West.
Group show
Bamboo Lane Gallery is honored to have the opportunity of extending the 2006
ArtWallah Festival to our gallery. ArtWallah is a leading forum for arts and
ideas of the South Asian Diaspora. The survey at the gallery, due to the
limited space, will focus on selected paintings, photocollages and
sculptures by 5 outstanding ArtWallah artists who, through their unique
visual voices, interpret their personal influence by the East and the West.
Neil Chowdury, from Dubai, attempts to create an artistic journey through
India as he has experienced in both imagination and life. With merging
digital images from different times and places, he juxtaposes ancient and
modern, mythical and real, imagined and lived and references contemporary
clashes of values and cultures that are occurring on the subcontinent and in
his own person.
Chamindika Wanduragala, an Sri Lankan American artist from Minneapolis,
applies vibrant colors and tribal myth together onto the fabric to form her
version of space between dream and reality.
The weight of Ela Shah's wall sculptures lies mostly on the woman gifures
who are carrying or supporting temple-like architectures. These
architectural structures are the structures of faith; faith in oneself,
humankind and divine power. The structures appear to be burned. Shah is in
constant need to cauterize and resurrect fragments of her past and
identity. These burnt images are symbolic of purification and
transformation.
Nitin Mukul's work explores a variety of themes, including the perpetuation
of stereotypes in popular culture, different societies' contrasting rituals
and motifs, social formations and survival instincts common to all
creatures. It also investigates and reflects the ways in which science,
technology and globalization affect our identities and reshape our physical
and mental environments. Most his paintings address the slippage of meaning
and new terms that form in the dice game of translation or conversion of
cultural currency.
Sanjay Vora's paintings are born of reflection. His practice at present is
to create a distinct and mimetic vision, based largely upon photographs,
which lies mostly beneath, but also at times amongst and over the layers of
veiling. As he covers and obscures the initial painting, he enacts a
process of retrieval. The resulting veil created serves as a mediating
function between the "then" and "now", as the tender representational
painting recedes and arises re-constructed into visions of a dream-like
quality of the world.
Bamboo Lane Gallery
418 Bamboo Lane (Chinatown) - Los Angeles