Bela Mardia unveiled her collection, ‘The Palette Knife’ at
her debut solo art show. Her paintings reflect her experimental approach to
materials and surfaces.
Mehmood Curmally (Owner, Rhythm House) inaugurated Bela
Mardia’s solo art show. Actress, Mahima Choudhary graced the occasion to lend
support to her beloved friend. Also seen were, Vikram and Jeeya Sethi, Mr Bahl
with daughter Sanjana amongst others
Mahima shares, “It astonishes me how one can create a
beautiful piece of work by just playing with the knife, Bela’s art work is
going to do wonders to my empty walls”
Dense oil and encaustic portraits from Bela’s artwork evoke
the effects of time on memory and representation. The figures sometimes dissolve
or disintegrate into their surroundings, occasionally into the material of the
painting itself. Exhibited alongside these new portraits are several large
scale works, including landscapes – not the pastoral environments of an
idealized natural world; but a reckoning of their own, impacted by crisis and
activated by abstraction. In a departure from traditional modes of
representational painting,Bela uses figures and landscapes to negotiate inner
and outer states. In these paintings an inventive approach to paint handling,
where the knife dissolve images, and darkness is built up in layers, creates
moments where the mechanism of painting is its own subject.
With rare integrity, has developed her oeuvre based on
abstract painting but gradually stepping into the spatial dimension. Her
artwork engages spectators in a way that it makes them both onlookers and
participators on a stage.
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