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Time of India
5 days ago
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- Time of India
K.S. Kulkarni's Lithe Lines at Shridharani
Critic and Curator Uma Nair has been writing for the past 35 years on art and culture She has written as critic for Times of India and Economic Times. She believes that art is a progressive sojourn. She learnt by looking at the best shows in Washington D.C. and New York. As author her most important books are Reverie with Raza and Meditations on Trees by Ompal Sansanwal. LESS ... MORE Over 35 years of writing one has always been drawn to artists who love drawing and weave it into their alchemy of forms. Drawing is as much about life as it is about communication. a master, former Vice Chairman LKA ,was known for the treatment of light and form and depth of vision, and the techniques of creating works that belonged to both modernism and contemporary reality. Gallerie Ganesha, famous for its work for more than three decades in Delhi, opens Esoteric Expressions at Shridharani in Triveni Kala Sangam next week, with an exhibition of Karnataka born who made Delhi his home. The founder president of Delhi Shilpi Chakra in 1948, Kulkarni created works that embodied the ' soul of the people' and a ' process of progress.' Still lifes and people At Shridharani the art lover is drawn into an embrace of art as a tool that at once reflects and responds to a range of presentations highlighting the variety within the expression and discourse surrounding modernity. The faces with fragmented contours, the lucid still life, the human figures and drawings with neatly abstracted veneers all seem to unpack a number of narratives pertaining to the undercurrents of modernism. His exploration of contemporary idioms resonate through his strong use of colour and his love for creating a corollary of conversations that sift and sieve through time. Pictorial language in portraits His portraits on paper and canvas hold their drawn forms clearly composed in animated silence with a sense of balance and harmony even as they have Picassoic preferences, have a certain enchantment about he fills the forms with subtle softness it is the textured background and the eyes that catch your gaze for its simplicity and its candour. According to gallerist Shoba Bhatia, who has followed his works over decades, Kulkarni, born in a village in Belgaum in Karnataka in 1916, engaged with modernist techniques and mediums to create a his own individual pictorial thickened black lines echo an inchoate over colour and contour become the dominant signature. The flute player Kulkarni imbued his figurative works with the classical grace of Ajanta paintings and a distinctive modernist spirit. If some works evoked village life and seemed to carry the melody of a flute being played in the distance, his human figures showed grace and rural rhythms rising up in strong outlines. However, he neither idealised rural life nor disparaged urban existence—choosing to paint life as he experienced it. Mother and child His mother and child studies in the show are about life and lines, and human empathy and eternal love between mothers and offspring. He also draws our attention to a cross section of humanity that cuts across all boundaries. We are at once held in the connectivity of a group of different people living and working together in harmony and the beauty of and the eloquence of poetic realities all become a part of this suite of works. For Kulkarni drawing was the building block of painting. From techniques such as highlights and reserves, to material selection and the creation of the use of light and shading as a medium, artists for hundreds of years have found innovative ways to create light's textural terrain on a single sheet of this exhibition is a lesson in this artistic attainment. Kulkarni examined silently the central relationship between paper and light in the world of drawings and paintings in his life. Focusing on drawings from the collection we are enticed into a visual essay on lines and compositional clarity, as we look longer and more closely at these works and derive an even deeper appreciation for the skill, imagination and labour that went into them. This exhibition runs like an elegy ,and brings back the words of Jagdish Swaminathan the great abstractionist,author and and artist who in the year 1989, wrote about his friend Kulkarni : ' Kulkarni carries within him the supreme tranquility of a man in harmony with the cosmos, facing life's problems with the calm bearing of a sage. The personality of the artist is expressed with remarkable lucidity in his works, and each of his canvases is a little gift of peace and solace to the troubled Souls of his fellow men.' Images: Gallerie Ganesha Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Disclaimer Views expressed above are the author's own.
Observer
09-08-2025
- Observer
Two fake Picasso prints sold at German auction house, police say
Two forged Pablo Picasso prints were sold at an auction house in Stuttgart while German authorities managed to seize two additional counterfeits before they could be auctioned, police said last week. An Italian national is suspected of introducing high-quality forgeries of works from Picasso's "Suite Vollard" series into the international art market over a period of years. The fakes made their way into the Stuttgart auction house, theB aden-Württemberg State Criminal Police Office (LKA) said in a statement. Of the two fakes that were sold, one was seized at an art dealer in the city of Worms, while the other is currently located in Austria. Italy's Carabinieri art crime unit in Rome took action against the suspect in early July. Authorities have not disclosed further details on the investigation. Germany's state police offices in Baden-Württemberg and Berlin have been working on the case for several years, in close cooperation with the Picasso Museum in Münster, which confirmed the artworks were counterfeit. A total of seven forged prints linked to the suspect and his network have been recovered so far, according to the LKA. The "Suite Vollard" is a celebrated series of 100 etchings created by Picasso between 1930 and 1937, commissioned by art dealer and publisher Ambroise Vollard. The collection is widely regarded as one of Picasso's most important graphic works. —dpa
Scottish Sun
01-07-2025
- Scottish Sun
Pool sex assault epidemic sweeps Germany with 74 attacks in just one region after Syrian men arrested for ‘groping kids'
A study has also provided an insight into the main culprits of the alleged assaults SUMMER FROM HELL Pool sex assault epidemic sweeps Germany with 74 attacks in just one region after Syrian men arrested for 'groping kids' A DISTURBING epidemic is sweeping through Germany with hundreds of people reporting sexual assaults in public swimming pools. In one of the worst hit regions, 74 alleged attacks have been recorded recently with several involving children - including eight young girls in one day. 3 A distributing epidemic is sweeping through Germany with hundreds of people reporting sexual assaults in public swimming pools Credit: Newsflash 3 Just last weekend, four men were arrested over sexual assault claims at the Barbarossabad swimming pool in Hesse Credit: Barbarossabad The issue has started to raise questions across Germany after a concerning number of reports were made last weekend. Cops arrested four Syrian suspects, aged 18 to 28, and accused them of sexually assaulting up to eight girls in a public swimming pool in Hesse. They were aged between 11 to 16 and had all been at the Barbarossabad pool on the same day. And now further stats have shown a total of 74 cases of sexual violence were registered in Hesse's swimming pools alone in 2024. read more in germany FATAL FLIGHT Two killed after plane crashes into terraced house and bursts into flames The study, done by the State Criminal Police Office (LKA), marks a worrying trend in the region with the number rising from 2023. It also provided an insight into the main culprits of the alleged assaults. In 60 per cent of cases, the suspects were not born in Germany. And out of the 57 people questioned by cops over the allegations, only two were women. Hesse's Interior Minister Roman Poseck has made it clear that any formal complaint must be taken seriously so any recurring fiends can be taken off the streets. He demanded: "The incidents at the swimming pool in Gelnhausen must be investigated swiftly and comprehensively. "We must not allow our swimming pools to become sites of sexual assault." Elsewhere, Cologne has been forced to put up makeshift posters raising awareness of potential poolside dangers. The sign shows a blonde man grabbing a young woman from behind as they both swim. The heading reads: "Stop! No groping!" There are said to be dozens of the posters spread across the city. Despite the concerning national rise, German police are refusing to say swimming pools have become a hotspot for sexual crimes. But Peter Harzheim, the president of the Federal Association of German Swimming Masters (BDS), says the numbers are worrying. He said: "Many people are getting out of control because the sun is shining on their brains. "The number of skilled workers is decreasing, which creates the risk that we will no longer be able to keep an eye on everything and intervene accordingly." The issue has been a long-standing one for many Germans. Back in 2016, a town banned male asylum seekers from a public swimming pool after several women complained of harassment. A government official in Bornheim said the men would be barred until they "got the message" that such behaviour will not be tolerated.
The Sun
01-07-2025
- The Sun
Pool sex assault epidemic sweeps Germany with 74 attacks in just one region after Syrian men arrested for ‘groping kids'
A DISTURBING epidemic is sweeping through Germany with hundreds of people reporting sexual assaults in public swimming pools. In one of the worst hit regions, 74 alleged attacks have been recorded recently with several involving children - including eight young girls in one day. 3 3 The issue has started to raise questions across Germany after a concerning number of reports were made last weekend. Cops arrested four Syrian suspects, aged 18 to 28, and accused them of sexually assaulting up to eight girls in a public swimming pool in Hesse. They were aged between 11 to 16 and had all been at the Barbarossabad pool on the same day. And now further stats have shown a total of 74 cases of sexual violence were registered in Hesse's swimming pools alone in 2024. The study, done by the State Criminal Police Office (LKA), marks a worrying trend in the region with the number rising from 2023. It also provided an insight into the main culprits of the alleged assaults. In 60 per cent of cases, the suspects were not born in Germany. And out of the 57 people questioned by cops over the allegations, only two were women. Hesse's Interior Minister Roman Poseck has made it clear that any formal complaint must be taken seriously so any recurring fiends can be taken off the streets. He demanded: "The incidents at the swimming pool in Gelnhausen must be investigated swiftly and comprehensively. "We must not allow our swimming pools to become sites of sexual assault." Elsewhere, Cologne has been forced to put up makeshift posters raising awareness of potential poolside dangers. The sign shows a blonde man grabbing a young woman from behind as they both swim. The heading reads: "Stop! No groping!" There are said to be dozens of the posters spread across the city. Despite the concerning national rise, German police are refusing to say swimming pools have become a hotspot for sexual crimes. But Peter Harzheim, the president of the Federal Association of German Swimming Masters (BDS), says the numbers are worrying. He said: "Many people are getting out of control because the sun is shining on their brains. "The number of skilled workers is decreasing, which creates the risk that we will no longer be able to keep an eye on everything and intervene accordingly." The issue has been a long-standing one for many Germans. Back in 2016, a town banned male asylum seekers from a public swimming pool after several women complained of harassment. A government official in Bornheim said the men would be barred until they "got the message" that such behaviour will not be tolerated. 3
The Hindu
30-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Hindu
Of lines and light: Rm Palaniappan's Finite and Infinite
At Dhan Mill, Nature Morte's unveiling of Rm Palaniappan's Finite and Infinite is an odyssey of the poetry of light and lines against his sparse abstract renditions that echo an artistic practice born of a domain immersed in abstraction. Palaniappan who was former Secretary Lalit Kala Akademi was an astute administrator and is a greatly distinguished practitioner of art in Tamil Nadu. His most epic exhibition as administrator to date at LKA was the National Art Exhibition of 2011, held after 17 years in Chennai. From his newest works that use acrylic on canvas in a variety of sizes to the beauty of tangled and meandering lines that embrace multiple angles, his works wrap around our senses. There is a beauty of aerobic enchantment amidst numbers and grainy gravitas. Palaniappan once stated: ' The only true reality lies in the interaction between the physical and the psychological. I am to capture this movement in my work.' The artist's trajectory is seen in lithe contours that change colours in progression. Curator and director, Peter Nagy, says, Palaniappan's works ' suggest life's journey within aerial military cartographies that add geographical perspective.' From finite to infinite Palaniappan says: 'Only someone flying in space can make a three-dimensional drawing and stretch it to infinity, thus expressing complete human freedom.' Critic and author Sadanand Menon describes it as 'a neutral, non-anthropomorphic space carrying images of unnameable places and their visual representations, whether terrestrial or planetary or astronomical. It is a kind of experimental geography and the possibility of proposing radical landscapes.' Palaniappan's love for sciences, mathematics and astronomy find their way into a lifelong art practice that reveals his fascination with the dynamics of the flying machine. This exhibition is a textural terrain of a visual vocabulary that recurs as maps, grids, and aerial terrains in his historic evolution. Consummate medley Within a medley of notations, marks, cyphers, and signs into densely layered graphic ensembles, it is the graphic elements, hand colouring, and multiplicity that renders each work unique. Finite and Infinite is also a mapping of deeper considerations of time, space, and movement and his love for transcending the linearity of the physical world within the web of his personal experience. Transitioning from prints to drawings in the late 1980s, Palaniappan concentrated on line as his visual tool describing the trajectories as a moving object or body that travels through space and time. His works are a play of visual aesthetics in slow time. They demonstrate a subtle yet highly sophisticated use of colour and a continued interest in diagrammatic notations and graphic strategies. A constant in his work is his lifelong fascination with the emotional impact of light within lines, light not as shimmer but as an iridescent reflection, and a radiant force associated with the resilient release of boundless energy that sifts and sieves. Palaniappan's family was involved with the commercial and graphic arts, his father being a distributor of calendar art and later his brothers owned printing and packaging companies. Palaniappan's artistic practice from the late 1970s (when he was in art college) to the early 2000s was entirely dedicated to printmaking, collages, and graphic works on paper. This history is retained in the paintings today, as the borders of each are demarcated with contrasting colours, numbers hover in the margins, and the target devices used for registration are still present. You recall the great Mark Rothko who said: ' Silence is so accurate.' (At Dhan Mill, Chattarpur ; Till June 8; 10am to 9pm) The writer is an art curator and critic
