Exhibition > Current

Texture in Nature

Show date - 22nd – 29th Aug10 For enquiry Ranjoy – 9762582397 Address - Vaishwik, S No 246/4 Saket society, DP Road, Aundh, Pune – 411007 landmark – Cental bank ph – 020 27298182 email - vaishwikart@yahoo.com The artistic representation of nature is closely linked with the social perception of the natural world. This is two way process : society draws it ideas about how to view, read and experience from the convention of visual culture, while at the same time artists reflect & react to current social attitudes to the environment. There is a long tradition of viewing art as a mirror of nature but what should also be recognized is the reciprocal practice of aesthetically appreciating nature in terms of art. The rise of environmentalism, feminism and post-modern critical theory together has significantly changed our understanding of nature and consequently artistic practice. Ecology has challenged the anthropocentrism of culture based on objectification and exploitation of nature. Artists also explore how post modernist theory demonstrates our relation to the non-human world as always historically-mediate and constructed. In the conventional practice, nature is reduced to two dimension : stressing formal qualities and flattering the natural world into scenery. Nature possesses contextual dimensions, offers a multi sensory experience and appears as a seamless unity. On the one hand we have an everyday emotional relationship with it on the other it is something alien, mystical and unknowable. The question of nature and representation is a complex one; what one seeks in the depiction of nature is the personal and direct experience that intimate collection which is creatively and regenerative. Nature, above all else commands respect, non-sentimental, non-nostalgia and non-romantic representation. So here we are seeking to strike an elegiac note, mourning for what is already lost, pleading for the conservation and survival of what is left. On a more specific note, this project showcases issues which have delighted, preoccupied or even plagued artistes over the years. Participant artist - Anju Chowdhury, Bhaskar hande, Dilip Mali, Jassi Rehman, Tribal artist