Kerala Lalithakala Akademi’s Up to date Solo Artwork Exhibition Venture showcase of three artists’ works

Sajeesh Pallikkara’s surreal works push the boundaries of creativeness

Sajeesh Pallikkara’s works will not be for the informal viewer. The work, giant mosaics of seemingly disconnected photographs, demand your undivided consideration. Each in charcoal and color, the work are terribly detailed. Sajeesh finds it tough to place a finger on his artistic course of. “It’s a movement,” he says, “of ideas, folks, concepts, phrases and pictures” and his talent lies find a steadiness on this chaos. 

His surrealistic works inhabit the area between goals and actuality, continually difficult the viewer to push the boundaries of creativeness to query, ponder and bear in mind. 

The present, Axiomatic ipso facto, brings a number of his work together with the one which gained him the 2016-2017 Lalithakala Akademi award. The present contains bigger works, one in all them as large as 16 ft / 5.5 ft. Along with the expansive canvases, Sajeesh has additionally showcased smaller drawings of individuals and fantastical photographs. The tea-washed rice paper lends a novel classic enchantment to the charcoal drawings. 

Although every picture is vastly totally different from the opposite, they’re linked by a theme. Sajeesh explores the thought of landscapes of their entirety. “What occurs when total communities are shifting out of cities that may not accommodate them? Though individuals are shifting bodily, what would they be carrying with them of their minds and hearts?” he asks. 

Every work calls for effort and time. He interviews folks, watches documentaries and reads so as to gasoline his inspiration. 

An artwork instructor at Fr. Joseph Memorial Increased Secondary Faculty at Puthuppady, Muvattupuzha, Sajeesh devotes his free time to his artwork follow. Sajeesh is at present engaged on a brand new unnamed collection. The present has been curated by Shaju Nellai.

Unnikrishan C’s metaphors from on a regular basis and the political area of bricks 

The works of Unnikrishnan C on present, The Whispering Partitions, additionally a part of the exhibition, are surprise inspiring for the sheer freshness of expression, how they’ve been imagined and executed on bricks. Sure, these crimson bricks, manufactured from pure clay. 

Thought scary, the installations talk about his engagement along with his quotidian environment. He seems very intently on the home or residence and the actions round it; fairly than an outsider he’s the insider and due to this fact his gaze is extra intimate. “The native and the private tales are a connection for me. So far as I’m involved, a brick is likely one of the most political areas that an artist can use.” 

The visible metaphors are derived from his on a regular basis life and discover area on his ‘canvas’, whichever which may be — an precise canvas or a brick or a door . What Unnikrishnan says in regards to the brick would ring a bell, we seldom think about it as an artist’s area. We see it both as a constructing block (which it’s) or as an agent of destruction when pelted as or in protest. The present challenges perceptions or establishment. The installations features a rectangular box-like ‘room’ of bricks, positioned within the centre of the gallery; a few of the bricks that make up the ‘partitions’ have commonplace objects — metal tumbler and plate, coconuts, mangoes and different fruits, natural world, portray brush, a switchboard, bowls of rice gruel and curry, cell phones — and the not so bizarre, stuff of the creativeness.

One other set up is the collection of his each day sketches positioned or organized as a stack of bricks could be. The curatorial notes calls Unnikrishnan’s perspective vernacular, which it’s. His artwork is impressed by his life, as he lives it. An alumni of the Authorities High quality Arts School, Thrissur, the Nenmara (Palakkad) native’s works have been a part of the Kochi Muziris Biennale and the Sharjah Biennale, apart from having his first present in Switzerland, and being a part of the Seattle Artwork Honest. The present has been curated by Sudheesh Kottembram. 

The interconnectedness of all the things in Abhijith Udayan’s works

For his solo present, Liminal Continuities and the Interstitial Potentialities of Existence, artist Abhijith Udayan has drawn inspiration from his life and his neighborhood. He writes in his artist assertion, “I draw inspiration from my on a regular basis interactions with society, particularly the rhythms and realities of life in Alappuzha, Kerala, the place I used to be born and raised. The fishing neighborhood right here performs a central function in shaping my inventive perspective. Their instruments, their labour and their collective spirit inform the supplies and metaphors I work with.”  

Abhijith Udayan
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Due to this fact, we see the canvases by means of a ‘fishing web’ painted on them. The online is inescapable. “It is part of my life and I’ve built-in it into my artwork!” he says. It transforms right into a layered metaphor for all times and of decisions. As an example, he says, some would affiliate a web with a sense of being trapped however he sees it as an unifying ingredient. One which binds the folks of the neighborhood collectively. Nonetheless as his follow developed and him as an individual together with it, the recurring web displays pressure, “generally it stands for interconnectedness and assist; different occasions it suggests entrapment, management and oppression.”

His artwork turns into a medium to specific the duality and interconnectedness in his on a regular basis life. The works might look deceptively easy, however they’re layered with photographs which reveal themselves on an in depth look. Every canvas has a deeper philosophical that means than meets the attention. Abhijith, a graduate of the Raja Ravi Varma School of High quality Arts, Mavelikara, is at present pursuing his Masters in High quality Arts (portray) on the Central College, Hyderabad. Additionally on present is one in all his work which earned a Particular Point out within the pupil’s class on the Kerala Lalithakala Akademi State Awards (2022-23). The present has been curated by Megha Sreyus. 

The reveals, organised by the Kerala Lalithakala Akademi as a part of its Up to date Solo Artwork Exhibition Venture, at Durbar Corridor Artwork Centre, Kochi, conclude on July 5. 

Revealed – July 04, 2025 01:59 pm IST