Ceramic, unlike painting is poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and as eminent artist Pablo Picasso said, sculpture is the art of the intelligence. Earth Echoes, a conglomerate of artistes, is organizing a four-day exhibition from January 6 to 9 at the Open Palm Court, India Habitat Center, Lodhi Road in the Capital where artistes will display creative works in clay. These artistes include Srirupa Sen, Sarika Malik, and Sneh Sharma. Arpita Bansal, Sandeep Marwah and Aruna Vasudev will be the Guests of Honour who will inaugurate the exhibition on January 6.
Sarika Malik says, “Getting into ceramics was an overwhelming feeling to find a medium which provides a three-dimensional canvas to my thoughts.” She has been in this profession for the last 8 years and when she looks back at her journey into world of clay, she feels overwhelmed. She has always been designing - from trousseau to calligraphy and lots more stuff like getting herself into ceramics which gives a three-dimensional touch to her thoughts. She puts her imagination to power into clay and produces tremendous art works.
Her current work includes The Ganesha and Serenity series. The Ganesha series is the expression of the eternal form of Ganesha and its essence, in a more abstract nature. The Serenity series is meditative and predominantly expresses her love for the abstract form and the balance and harmony that exists within it.
It feels so fresh and pure when an experienced teacher adopts art as her child. Srirupa Sen is a teacher who has turned into innovative art. After teaching chemistry to University students for 25 years, she took voluntary retirement because of her love for art. After getting into ceramics, she got to know where she wanted to sink her hands, heart and soul. An artistic hobby turned into an obsession and this passion has not abated even after eight years. “The feel of moist clay whirling on the potter’s wheel and the vision of an indiscriminate lump of earth being transformed by my hands into an object of my imagination is a feeling which belies description”, says Srirupa Sen.
Sneh Sharma from Delhi stepped into clay art work in 2009 at the Delhi Blue Pottery Studio. Clay is a mode of expression but for her it is like creating a piece of art by using different techniques. The love for Ceramics and sense of art grows bigger day by day, Sneh Sharmasays, adding, “I believe that every handmade work exudes spiritual beauty which significantly impacts the soul”.
Where: Open Palm Court, India Habitat Center
When : January 6-9