Art show in Kochi supports print and paper (12 December 2014-29 March 2015)
13 found globes, manufactured between 1890 and 2011 scraped with international sandpaper hang over a table. It mirrors the flattening of differences and the natural process of reshaping of the contours of the world. We Are All Astronauts (2013) by Julian Charriere
Marie Velardi creates a 16.14x216.92 inch print display, Future Perfect, 21st Century (2006), a timeline of the 21st century culled from science fiction books and movies of the 20th century. The descriptions are sometimes eerily plausible, others funny but none dismissible.
A built-up library, Mary Wants to Read a Book, recognises the significance of Kerala’s literacy movement and library culture. It contains more than 2000 books made from recycled paper, each with text drawn from Navjot Altaf’s research.
Kader Attia explores the legacy of colonialism in Middle-East and Africa with a series of 26 oil paintings that depict the nations’ stamps Independence Disllusionment.
This pen and ink on printed maps, Routes AP (2003), is a playful mesh on maps found in in-flight magazines. The result resembles a complex map that disrupts national boundaries and liberates the landscape. Mona Hatoum, is a British artist of Palestinian descent.
Kaaba Pop-ups (2014), a series of 24 handmade sculptures, is created by folding paper into intricate Islamic stalactite patterns. Hamra Abbas explores the contrast between paper, a fragile medium, and the monument it seeks to evoke.
Naeem Mohaiemen’s Kazi in Nomansland (2008), chronicles the life of Kazi Nuzrul Islam, whose legacy is claimed and commemorated in postage stamps in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. These archival prints on paper form the core of Mohaeimen’s installation.
American poet Aram Saroyan’s minimalist poems are meant as much to be seen as to be read. His poster poem m holds the Guiness world record for the shortest poem ever written. It alludes the germination of one letter from another, giving birth to a four-legged creature.
She prints the captured moments. Her 1.9.2014 Dear Mr. Walter is an installation of 196 inkjet prints - a year’s work - placed in 11 teak wood pillars, which represents inter-connected movements in life and thought. Artist: Dayanita Singh
Hema Upadhyay channels personal memories of migration with Silence and Its Reflections (2014). The six panels are made of rice glued on Arches handmade paper. The scrapes carry miniscule fragments of handwritten text.
The monochrome photographs in Perpetual Stills (2014) tell the biography of Kerala’s cultural and political landscape as chronicled by Punaloor Rajan. His subjects include Vaikom Basheer, MT Nair, C Achutha Menon etc.
Akashathille bindu shunyakasham by Sachin George Sebastian is a largescale paper installation. On entering, one confronts a paper wall with thousand of holes that divides it into a lit ‘day side’ and a darkened ‘night side’.
Atlas des iles perdues, Edition 2107, a bound book of the reproductions of the “Lost Islands” drawings, stands in the middle of a gallery converted into an open globe by Marie Velardi. The walls have meridians plotted along its length.
Art show in Kochi supports print and paper (12 December 2014-29 March 2015)
Whorled Explorations, the second edition of the highly acclaimed Kochi-Muziris Biennale is anchored for 108 days in the water-bound regions of Fort Kochi. The 94 artists from 30 countries spread over eight sites, see a playful emphasis on the tactileness of paper and print.
Tanvi Parekh feels this is “a must see” for every single print lover in India, since it helps in rediscovering the beauty of print in a tongue-in-cheek and intuitive way