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follow the wind

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How would you like arrows for weathercocks – creating geometrical patterns on the outer walls of your house or your building!

This is Daikanyama Installation 2005 – Grand Prix Winning entry by Daisuke Ibano and Ryosuke Fujii –

“Blowin’in the wind”

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In order to perceive the traces of the wind, Daisuke Ibano and Ryosuke Fujii have filled a mesh screen installed on the wall of a building on the Sanno Institute of Management Daikanyama campus with a number of arrows. The arrows point in respective directions as the wind blows and rest in balance as the wind stops.

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out of box art

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                  environment (acrylic on wood)

Artist Sukhdev Sinh Rathod @ galleries

                            Chemould-Prescott Road and @ Guild India

A trained painter and ceramicist young Indian artist Sukhdev Sinh Rathod ‘s ongoing interest in illusions in daily life has made him create three dimensional wall-works and contradiction between eye and mind series. In the illusionistic mode he creates three dimensional spaces- wooden boxes using acrylics.

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contradiction between eye and mind-series

(watercolour on Arhes paper)

The tension between real and virtual space brings out multiple meaning out of simple objects in his art.

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third world (acrylic on wood)

Besides his installation – like piantings, I love his architectural work as these installations evoke ‘still in the cabinet-  but out of box feeling’!

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untitled (gouache on paper)

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contradiction between eye and mind-series

(watercolour on Arhes paper)

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superstition (mixed media)

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untitled (gouache on paper)

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anticipation (mixed media)

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dazzling art

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Artist Kirti Khatri @ Lemon Grasshopper Gallery

Indian artist Kirti Khatri is one of the very few people in India who practices the art of paper cutting. He works around religious themes as well as various floral designs.

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Paper cutting is a craft most of us must have indulged into at some time in our school life. May be in just small measure.It is simple yet vey exciting art and craft. The art of paper cutting originated in China. See the history here and here.

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There are two methods: scissor cutting and knife cutting. In scissor cuttings several sheets of paper, up to seven, are layered together. The motif is then cut with sharp, pointed scissors. Knife cuttings are fashioned by putting several layers of paper on a relatively soft foundation.

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This craft has developed in different countries with its distinctive flavour. See how here.

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See the modern paper cutting and traditional Chinese paper cutting and how  it is done here.

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CO2 and lotus

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Artsit Ng. B. Singha

A young artist based in Mumbai B. Singha’s these water colours on paper remain untitled and aptly so.

How do you describe global warming?

Or for that matter a peek into future where you would meet polluted world as well as aliens?

Who are looking like aliens-we or them?

But then hope, lotus and leaves are eternal!

Analyze your way, ask your questions and find your answers in these simple watercolours where fresh colours also tug at your heart.

Exhibited in February these year at Chatterjee & Lal art gallery the series was named ‘Breathe’.

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