Within the frame of a hollow face, are drawn shades of birds and animals, placed in colourful rows and columns. The picture depicts man’s tenuous connection with Nature and animals losing their space for the human greed for development that is aggressive, yet unstable. For artist Satyajit Haldal, the situation is ‘alarming’.Themes like this found a place in ‘Radius’ by The Beez - a group of painters, sculptors, printmakers and applied artists of the B K College of Art and Craft. Close to Haldal’s was another painting of a vase with some ‘unusual’ flowers in it. For, the petals did not have shades of pink, red or white but they resembled animal hides. “Not every animal is loved by human beings. Here, I wanted to show that life is interconnected. Even behind growth of a beautiful flower, there is contribution of animals, micro-organisms in some or the other way,” said the artist Madhab Mandal. With discerning eye of an artist, Ruby Chaurasia captured the ‘childhood in an old man’ that portrayed the need for love and care for elderly persons in a family. Kumari Swati’s simple white painting of a girl with shades of pink and green and motifs of flowers, boats, kites and butterflies, was a presentation of ‘her childhood’.Young artist Amiya Behera, is disturbed at the increasing violence against women in the society. In his work ‘Duhita’, he painted a nude injured woman who is unable to bear the miseries that have befallen on her. Likewise, Bichismita Pany’s ‘Luck’ had a face drawn with a paper cutting, which is chained and locked. “I wanted to show that however high the aspirations of people are, there is always a luck factor involved,” she said. Another interesting work was created by Survalekha Mohanty who made a collage of colours to depict the ‘Need of Colour in Life’.While landscapes, nature and still-life ruled the show, there were also some abstracts and scenes from daily life. Apart from paintings, some excellent photographs on various aspects of life were showcased by Sabyasachi Pattanayak, Nilima Behera, Sudhanshu Sekhar Sahu, Madhusmita Routray, Sunita Mohanty and Biplab Kumar Bhesera. Interesting sculptures on themes of ‘Human Relations’ by Mohini Ranasingh, freedom by Susanta Kumar Dali, ‘Man and animal’ by Baldev Prasad Sahoo and ‘Impossible’ by Basanta Prusty were also on show.The exhibition concluded on Monday evening at the Lalit Kala Akademi.
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