"Harf Hai Sarmasti" a solo exhibition of paintings by Seema Sathyu at ZAZA Stay, G-54, Nizamuddin West > 10am-7pm on 26th April-1st May 2013

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Time : 10:00 am - 7:00 pm

Entry : Free

Place : ZAZA Stay, G-54, Nizamuddin West, New Delhi
Venue Info : Map  | Nearest Metro Stations - 'Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium(Violet Line)' & Jor Bagh (Yellow Line)
Ph. : 011-47373454, 011-47373450

Event Description : 'Harf Hai Sarmasti' a solo exhibition of paintings by Seema Sathyu. 

Artist's Comment : In my recent paintings I have used nature as an idiom to delve into the vast world within myself. By equating the inward relationship with the self, to the outward relationship with nature, I have tried to unravel this intangible, unseen world— its vibrations, its layers. The seemingly unreal, chalky colours against the grandeur of silver and gold glorify the symbolic pathways, doors, and windows that lead me beyond the mundane.

beyond the self by Reema Moudgil : 
Seema Sathyu's work is a poem imagined, illustrated and fleshed out not just with lines and colours, but taranas, khayals, Sufiayana poetry, calligraphy, musical notes and India's Ganga Jamuni tehzeeb that Seema has inherited from her filmmaker father M S Sathyu and her writer mother Shama Zaidi. Her work sings, 
sighs, prays, meditates, dances, unravels like a mystery, unspools like a silken thread or a dream, finding its way through doorways, Mughal arches, endless staircases...strewing petals, and songs in its wake.
Her work engages the gaze and the spirit, provokes touch and thought, much like Amir Khusrau's poetry which has inspired a large part of Seema's current series. These works are compact, intensely detailed, lush like fruit gardens where everything blossoms and tropical forests where birds fly unfettered.
Seema says, "The idea was to engage with smaller spaces and say more. To find connections between poetry and music, even architecture, body and soul and the physical world." Many of her works blur the line between a protagonist and her surroundings as she and the earth begin and end each other. The earth becomes her drapery and sometimes the five elements are within her and around her and she is one with them. At times, you don't see the body but just a cloak of a mendicant or a fakir ka choga as Seema 
puts it. 
The soul in her works travels constantly and walks through fires and soaks itself in cool blue waters. Sometimes the soul is the solitary wanderer, sometimes the soul is the path, sometimes a spiral into infinity. There are mudras and footprints, saying what words cannot. In her works, there is the obvious and the subtle. Surfaces and layers. Ripples of cosmic energy and placid calm. Puzzling interlocking patterns and complete harmony of form, idea, thought, line and colour. There is the will to fly, to soar and the desire to dig deep into the earth to root oneself even more firmly. There is the human love for the temporal and the transcendent love in search of a 'piya' who will quench the soul's thirst forever.
Using aquarelle pencils, inks , pens and acrylic paints, Seema has created intimate worlds within worlds that beckon you to not just lose yourself but to find what lies beyond the self.

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