"Wabi-Sabi" An exhibition of mobiles, installations & art work using enamel on metal by Veenu Shah at Alliance Francaise - 11am to 8pm on 22nd to 30th December 2009

Time : 11:00 am - 8:00 pm

Entry : Free

Place : Galerie Romain Rolland, Alliance Française, Next to Annex building of India International Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi

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Event Details : Wabi-Sabi by Veenu Shah. An exhibition of mobiles, installations and art work using enamel on metal.
WABI-SABI is a beauty of things imperfect, impermanent and incomplete. It is a beauty of things modest and humble. t is a beauty of things unconventional.
Artist's Comment : One always tries to extend one’s limitations and dimensions in one’s work. This time the extension is many dimensional in concept and expression, reflecting how my perceptions becoming multi-dimensional. The spirit is freer, the work has just flown and grown into multi-dimensional forms wanting expression and recognition. The desire and the joy of moving with the tide of time, to make the best of nature before man destroys it, the feeling of the gentle breeze making me swirl, the leaves dancing in the perfect light, flowers turning towards the sun, have all inspired this new body of work . Standing mobiles, mobiles hanging from the sky, flowers in bloom, fish wanting to escape contamination……the collection is very innovative and very original.
Delhi has not seen this  genre of work.  There is a deep concern expressed too, of Delhi dying a slow death. This  concern as a fourth generation Dilliwala shows in my work
The work has been executed in a relatively new medium - Enamel. Enamel without metal is just glass. Glass without colours is also just glass. But when glass meets metal, any metal, silver, bronze, copper, gold under high heat, the blend with metal oxides transforms it into enamel.  When the fused glass and metal is twice fired, the brilliance of the colours that emerge  remain forever, untarnished. Artworks, sculptural forms and exciting new forms in worked-metal jewelry are all possible with this magical process through which the final form assumes meaning and a magical permanence born of the most fragile as well as the hardiest of materials.
Traditional techniques include the Indian meenakari. Terms like Cloisonné, a technique perfected in China and later developed in Europe, Champleve, the raised-plane technique and Plique-a-jour, a high-precision method, where the colours are filled into spaces between metal shapes that, when fired and polished, allow the light to filter through, rather like a miniaturized stained glass window are redolent of the European – specially the French connection.


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