Recent works by Gouri Vemula at Art Heritage, Triveni Kala Sangam, 205, Tansen Marg > 11am-7pm on 22nd October-10th November 2010

Time : 11:00 am - 7:00 pm

Entry : Free

Place : Art Heritage, Triveni Kala Sangam, 205, Tansen Marg, Mandi House, New Delhi

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Area : Mandi House Area
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Event Details : Gouri Vemula is showing her recent works at Art Heritage.
Note on Gouri Vemula by Amal Allana : Gouri Vemula from Hyderabad, experiments with multi media: watercolour, the opacity of poster colour, collage and drawing, as part of her métier. Prior to her tryst with art, Gouri has been a national level athlete.  Asthma turned her destiny to art, where true to her ilk Gouri finds herself compelled to excel. Her artistic idiom springs from the ability and pace of her sporting career, inviting allusions to her as one “running like a horse”. In the shift of careers, somewhere within her was born the horse-women, a pictorial variation of Picasso’s Minotaur, the long standing sexual symbol of the west. Suppressed violence and defiant sensuality creates a visual tension in her works where horse headed- men and women are chiseled to perfection as studies in form of rippling musculature.
Her recent work continues such symbolism which is born out of a modern psyche making even her most realistic of street and bazaar scenes, abound with animal-headed people or convoluted arrangements, where figures combine both beast and man in a single figure. These well-carved studies of  human, animal and the environment, are perfectly executed in the graphic mode. They are visually enriched by her masterly use of the methods of using dry point techniques, as well as pen and ink drawings. A student of Laxma Goud, Gouri does not succumb to content, as secondary to technique.

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