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White Clouds – the
finishing point
Om
Soorya
Reception with the artist : Saturday 19th April, 12.00 to
6.00 p.m
Exhibition continues until 5th May 2008
The Guild Art Gallery is pleased to present Om Soorya’s
solo show, White Clouds – The Finishing Point. Born in 1977
Om Soorya graduated from Calicut
University in History. He obtained a BFA in painting from College of
Fine Arts, Kerela University,
Thiruvananthapuram and a MFA in painting from the University of
Hyderabad.
White clouds- the
finishing point
Sun hasn’t set; but
the light is gone;
They flew, still as
in a relay
The white cloud,
the finishing point
Might have melted
into thin air;
Maybe that had
darkened to
One thunder and to
lightning;
In many drops as a
torrential rain
At last, through
the edge of a leaf
Like a sigh it
might have seeped into our sultriness.
Booming solid
silence;
Poor and pure birds
Above those
cracked, dry greenness
Between my
childhood and youth
Between the bloomed
chempakam and fallen flowers
Through the gravity
which hardens between me and you
They are flying
searching the white clouds.
When place is
broken or shrunken or is shaken
Those poor and pure
birds are flying and flying
In search of that
whiteness
- Om Soorya.
“I
use water colour to
intimately explore the freedom of rendering an idea.
I wish to bring in an experience of painting rather than create
imageries. Finally it becomes the combination of subjective and
objective surroundings, bringing together imagery from contradictory
or unexpected sources, historical, geographical and contemporary.
Through this process I enjoy the relationship between abstract and
figurative art, and it helps me to resist being categorized as
belonging to a certain school or thought. But still the total idea of
my painting is not far away from the conventional thoughts; it is
close to life and its existence. The recent visual language of my
works has evolved through my lived experience in urban and rural
spaces and also through the world of contradictions. It creates
a kind of ambiguity between reality and unreality, chaos of culture
and a spiritual quest.”
Om Soorya.
Om Soorya’s solo shows include 2007:
Random Mirrors in the City of Villagers at THE GUILD ART USA INC,New
York, 2007 : Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Mumbai.
2006: ‘Franklin Templeton Investments’
at State Gallery of Fine Arts.
2004 : ‘Earthworm a Prophet’ at
Hyderabad.
Amongst his
Group Shows are 2008, Interlude:
Venice/Kassel at Jehangir Nicholson Art Gallery, N.C.P.A by The Guild,
Mumbai
, 2007: ‘Linkages/Dialogues at The
Guild, Mumbai, 2007
: Nature Morte Art Gallery, New Delhi.
He received the Emerging Artist Award in 2007 given by Foundation for
Indian Contemporary Art (FICA). His participations in residencies
are, 2006: Artist in Residence at Kalakriti
Art Gallery, Hyderabad, 2003: Peers Khoj Residency in New Delhi, 2001:
National Workshop College of Art, New Delhi.
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