MANJULA NARAYAN discovers young, often unschooled artists and their creations at the Lalit Kala Akademi’s show in Goa
AWOODEN figure peers through his sunglasses at a poodle atop a gatepost. The dog seems to be returning his gaze rather sardonically. Perhaps it’s contemplating the correct response to an inane query; perhaps it’s deciding if it’s worth its while to jump down and take a nip at those wooden ankles. Turns out the man is wondering Is it that address?, the title of 31-year-old sculptor Tarun Maity’s work, one of the 11 award-winners at the Lalit Kala Akademi’s 51st National Exhibition of Art held from January 12 to 25 at the Goa Kala Academy in Panaji.
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Elsewhere in the airy, Charles Correa-designed complex located on the banks of the Mandovi river, painted metal dogs bear a ‘Get Well Soon’ sign and silver flowers (Time to Gandhigiri by Lalit Bhartiya); a plump nude splays her shiny ceramic legs (Desire III by Manjushri Chakraborty); a squatter woman peers through morning mists into the camera that captures both the curves of the iron bridge in the background and its visual echo in the birdcages on a wire in the fore (Nari by Sunil Kumar Gupta); a medieval city quarter complete with looming gumbads caught in delicate watercolours (Smoking Morning by Ananta Mandal); and miniscule paper shopping bags with pictures of objects from scissors to locks, paintbrushes to clothes are caught, some as they fall, in a glass case (Untitled III by Debashree Das
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