The artist’s solo reveals at the moment are operating concurrently at Durbar Hall Art Gallery, Kochi and the J. Erik Jonsson Central Library at Dallas within the U.S.
The artist’s solo reveals at the moment are operating concurrently at Durbar Hall Art Gallery, Kochi and the J. Erik Jonsson Central Library at Dallas within the U.S.
A small ear carved on a round board, three toes in diameter, is an allusion to artist Van Gogh’s self-mutilation try. In the opposite ear is embedded a speaker, which performs a recitation of the poem Van Gogh by American poet Jeanne Murray Walker. In the set up ‘Obscenities in the Eye of the Beholder’, a video is embedded within the iris of a large open eye. In ‘How Do Birds Erase Boundaries’, 20 birds are perched in a cage. The sculpture rotates to a musical symphony composed by the artist.
These works and extra are a part of Tensing Joseph’s solo reveals now operating concurrently at Durbar Hall Art Gallery, Kochi and the J. Erik Jonsson Central Library at Dallas within the U.S. “Both exhibitions are alike,” says Mr. Joseph, Director on the Raja Ravi Varma Centre of Excellence for Visual Arts, Mavelikara. The reveals join continents and works act as a bridge to international literature and artwork.
Tensing Joseph
In Kochi, the exhibition is titled ‘What You Think Is Not Important To Me’. Of the ten sculptures and 5 work being displayed, 4 kinetic sculptures in kumbal or white wooden stand out for his or her mixed use of multimedia, mechanics and motion. “My new kinetic sculptures are based on new materials tested in the evolutionary directions of art history and also from direct experiential observations,” says the artist.
In ‘The End and Beginning’, a small fish pulls a college of smaller fish. A central mild initiatives the shadow of the transferring fish onto the wall. This, says Mr. Joseph, is impressed by auteur Federico Fellini’s Capricorn. “I recreated the surrealism in the film,” he says. The different sculptures are standard reliefs in wooden. Academic and environmentalist Madhav Gadgil seems in a big 16×6 toes portray together with photos of the habitats he has championed, as towards environmental degradation. The work was a response to the 2018 Kerala floods, says the artist.
The present concludes on November 16.
‘Obscenities in the Eye of the Beholder’ by Tensing Joseph
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