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Bengaluru:  Nature in Abstraction is the concept of Sushil I Tarbar's landscape cum abstract paintings exhibition, currently underway at Gallery No 1 in Karnataka Chitra Kala Parishat, here. An unusual combination:  Prof Babu Jattakar, former principal of the College of Fine Arts, Karnataka Chitra Kala Parishat and well-known artist, inaugurated the exhibition by lighting the lamp. He showered praises on the artworks on display and opined that, usually, you find neither landscape paintings nor abstract paintings. However, Sushil I Tarbar has given a different visual treat altogether by combining both landscape and abstract formats. To a different world of its own:  R Suri, veteran septuagenarian artist and Member of Karnataka Lalit Kala Akademi, another guest of the evening, was highly appreciative of the quality of works in the show. He felt the works take the viewers to a different world of their own. Aesthetic utility of white space: B G Gujjarappa, regarded as one o...

Nilanjan Guha recently held a three days exhibition titled My Bangalore Days at the Indian Institute of World Culture Art Gallery in Basavanagudi, Bengaluru. The exhibition evinced a good response in terms of visitors from the art field and the general public. Dr G Parameshwar, Home Minister who had come to the adjoining auditorium to release a book by the renowned author Dr Baraguru Ramachandrappa volunteered to have a glimpse of the exhibits. So did Dr CN Manjunath, Director of Jayadeva Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences and Research. A downpour of colours: Nilanjan Guha presented watercolour paintings made in the last four years while the exhibits pertained to the experiences of his day-to-day life in Bengaluru, Mysuru, Mangaluru and other locations of the state. Along with them he also displayed his plein air works which were painted on the spot. Most of the paintings indicate the nuance and rich diversity of the objects juxtaposed in attractive colours. In a way, you could say t...