Baroda-based Boshudhara Mukherjee’s debut solo show, entitled ‘Painted Veil’ takes place at Volte, Mumbai. It’s a crafty collection of wonderfully woven canvases. She takes about two months to finish a piece that involves the painstaking processes of cutting and then re-cutting painted swathes re-composed in loosely, albeit skillfully woven tapestries.
Stenciled forms of stars and trees are cut out and later re-pasted to create lazy patterns - nothing here is uniform or neat. She uses industrial tape for holding together some bits, whereas others left to fray and precariously dangle. It’s clear that these pieces are unfinished and neither are meant to be - some pieces with their large gaping portions give the sense of untidy still deliberate chaos.
And contrasted with the cut-out motifs casting wonderful and strange shadows on the wall, their beauty seems to lie in the very sum of all their parts, collated together to generate a flimsy veil. A press release mentions: “While she paints the canvas using acrylic and oil, she also weaves the canvas, transforming its very nature as a carrier of paint.”
Back in March 2010, she debuted with her a show at Volte gallery. Her woven tapestries appeared to have a fleeting feel to them; their intricacy and the patterned shadows that they cast on the walls just behind were two parts of the beauty. Now exactly two years on, she is back with a new set of works - canvases each as meticulously created as the pieces in her first show.
A few things though, have changed: The artist deftly works with oil paints. There is a suggestion of finely crafted form, and stenciling of architecture as well as interiors, Superb Gothic-esque structures that she pulls out from her imagination are worth watching. The works on view denote something incomplete, giving the sense even with the tidier weave: one tug is all that it would take to simply unravel it all.
Stenciled forms of stars and trees are cut out and later re-pasted to create lazy patterns - nothing here is uniform or neat. She uses industrial tape for holding together some bits, whereas others left to fray and precariously dangle. It’s clear that these pieces are unfinished and neither are meant to be - some pieces with their large gaping portions give the sense of untidy still deliberate chaos.
And contrasted with the cut-out motifs casting wonderful and strange shadows on the wall, their beauty seems to lie in the very sum of all their parts, collated together to generate a flimsy veil. A press release mentions: “While she paints the canvas using acrylic and oil, she also weaves the canvas, transforming its very nature as a carrier of paint.”
Back in March 2010, she debuted with her a show at Volte gallery. Her woven tapestries appeared to have a fleeting feel to them; their intricacy and the patterned shadows that they cast on the walls just behind were two parts of the beauty. Now exactly two years on, she is back with a new set of works - canvases each as meticulously created as the pieces in her first show.
A few things though, have changed: The artist deftly works with oil paints. There is a suggestion of finely crafted form, and stenciling of architecture as well as interiors, Superb Gothic-esque structures that she pulls out from her imagination are worth watching. The works on view denote something incomplete, giving the sense even with the tidier weave: one tug is all that it would take to simply unravel it all.
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