Holy Cow! It's art!
19 Nov 2012 9:57 PM GMT
Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds. So spake the Bard. And now, centuries later, Singapore-based artist P. Gnana has given artistic touches to his expression of love in his latest exhibition Nothing Else but Love.
Gnana dwells on the emotion with the help of humans and an animal — the cow! Using recycled media, oils, fabrics and mixed media — the artist has created paintings, sculptures in bronze and even installations.
Shakespeare's immortal line — Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose, to form and dignity — from A Midsummer Night's Dream, set the tone of the exhibition.
'The gestures which you can't do in real life are what I try to portray in my works,' says Gnana. 'They express the yearning for an eternal companion,' he adds. His recent works, though varied, speak the same language — that of love.
The Umbilical Bond (oil on canvas), dwells on a mother's love for her child. The same emotion is portrayed in Timeless Intoxication (oil on canvas) and Reason to live (oil and fabric collage on canvas).   Â
The works are marked by bold strokes and a riot of colours. Androgyny is noticed in some figures but mostly the figures are stark and well shaped. Cows form a major part of his works. Gnana, known widely as a 'cow-painting artist' attributes this to his love for the animal.
Growing up in Naiveli in Tamil Nadu, the artist grew up seeing cows in the roadside. Â
'My works are part imagination and part memories of the past. Whatever I see, I pepper it with my imagination and use it in my works at some point of time,' explains the artist. Â
Incarnation I stands out among his works. It is an installation made out of recycled media that includes parts of two-wheelers and four wheelers which have been added to welded materials.
Go take a look and see for yourself the various expressions of love.
DETAIL
At: Art Spice, The Metropolitan Hotel & Spa, Near Bangla Sahib
On till: 30 November
Timings:Â 10 am to 7 pm
Gnana dwells on the emotion with the help of humans and an animal — the cow! Using recycled media, oils, fabrics and mixed media — the artist has created paintings, sculptures in bronze and even installations.
Shakespeare's immortal line — Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose, to form and dignity — from A Midsummer Night's Dream, set the tone of the exhibition.
'The gestures which you can't do in real life are what I try to portray in my works,' says Gnana. 'They express the yearning for an eternal companion,' he adds. His recent works, though varied, speak the same language — that of love.
The Umbilical Bond (oil on canvas), dwells on a mother's love for her child. The same emotion is portrayed in Timeless Intoxication (oil on canvas) and Reason to live (oil and fabric collage on canvas).   Â
The works are marked by bold strokes and a riot of colours. Androgyny is noticed in some figures but mostly the figures are stark and well shaped. Cows form a major part of his works. Gnana, known widely as a 'cow-painting artist' attributes this to his love for the animal.
Growing up in Naiveli in Tamil Nadu, the artist grew up seeing cows in the roadside. Â
'My works are part imagination and part memories of the past. Whatever I see, I pepper it with my imagination and use it in my works at some point of time,' explains the artist. Â
Incarnation I stands out among his works. It is an installation made out of recycled media that includes parts of two-wheelers and four wheelers which have been added to welded materials.
Go take a look and see for yourself the various expressions of love.
DETAIL
At: Art Spice, The Metropolitan Hotel & Spa, Near Bangla Sahib
On till: 30 November
Timings:Â 10 am to 7 pm
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