Saturday, July 10, 2010

‘Cinema Verite Redux’ at Gallery Sumukha, Bangalore

Bangalore based Gallery Sumukha presents an art exhibition, entitled ‘Cinema Verite Redux’. Curated by Shaheen Merali, the exhibit comprises works by artists Parvathi Nayar, Ravikumar Kashi, Subba Ghosh, Attila Richard Lukacs, Charly Nijensohn, Marina Roy, and Prasad Raghavan.

The selection for the title proposes a familiarity of intent with a particular type of cinema and documentary format that has evolved and is popularly recognized as cinema verite. An accompanying note elaborates:
“The dependence on chance, of probable encounters, can be seen as one of the factors that unites these artists' works with cinema verite. Chance played a formative part of the Dadist movement, but these works vary in the way chance is used to consolidate a longing to record from fragments of concerns. Part of the sustaining aegis in many of them is found in their use of diverse research of their project. A second, and more commonly recognized condition of cinema verite is found in its desire to avail itself of excessive technical equipment, which could interfere or create a distance with its subject. ‘"
Cinema Verite Redux’ lets bring back of some of the above mentioned evaluatory and technical strategies as inventive tropes for gaining a proximity to the world. There are Oil on wood Portraits by Attila Richard Lukacs; video installations by Marina Roy’ cutout paintings on canvas stretched on wood by Subba Ghosh; Inkjet prints by Prasad Raghavan; black & white Drawings by Parvathi Nayar, video installations by Charly Nijensohn, and Photography by artist Ravikumar Kashi.

In quest of a commitment to the ‘inspired gaze’, the seven participating artists have featured works that serve as notations of salvation, a clear ground to recover informed ideas and a staunch commitment entrenched within the aesthetic and political intimacy of their belief. The group show allows a uniquely different artistic method and, hence, arguably a different artistic outcome in its inscription as well as embedment into its vivacious visual surfaces.

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