By SK.Vyas
New Delhi, August 20: The Convention Centre Lobby at India Habitat Centre is readying itself for a unique event where the Art and not the persons shall do the talking. We have been hearing a lot about people boasting about their work and seeking accolades, but here are three bold women, who chose to listen to their soul and tread the path they wanted to travel upon. Art World is by no means easy to get into, and establish oneself. But here we have Nira Davar, an artist who was one of India’s great contemporary artist, known for her explosively coloured paintings, who left her work behind to transcend the world for good. We also have Nivedita Pande who create satirical humour from the incongrous in a landscape where meaning is held back, allowing the viewer to contemplate and experience that journey. Then we have Renuka Sondhi Gulati, who paints to exist and sculpts to underline her existence. Her works vivify the journey of a woman from birth to death, undergoing all the pangs of life and feeling all the bliss of maturing.
In these works one can see the vigorous negotiations between spaces, a critique on the technological and emotional submission of women by the socio-economic forces, the external spaces of self assertion and the internal spaces of contemplation and reconciliation.
While Renuka believes in experimenting and re-inventing herself. Nivedita’s sensitivity to the human condition and the stoic grace with which she deals with it, transforms her works into an important dialogue in the growing Indian Contemporary Art scene today. Nira Davar was a central figure in contemporary art for more than 40 years. She had a strong vision and painted dramatically varied abstract forms, straight from her heart…
The city is lucky to have the walls of The Convention Centre Lobby cover with the works of these senior artists, and if one can and does listen, they shall talk… for each painting has a story and a power which can be subsumed, not assumed. The exhibition stays open 10 to 8 pm daily till 24th August.