When Leaves Rustle in Cool Breeze exhibition in Thiruvananthapuram is a homage to Fall

September marks the onset of autumn or Fall — an interval between spring’s bloom and winter’s gloom. Fall, because the identify suggests, is taken into account a interval of demise and decay, as leaves slowly lose their lushness, stripped of vitality. The artwork exhibition, When Leaves Rustle in Cool Breeze, on at Vylopilly Samskrithi Bhavan, is a homage to decay, a actuality in nature throughout species — from the crisp snap of a twig to hues of gray on an individual’s hair.

Organised by Cochin Art Cube and curated by O Sunder, the present options greater than 100 works by 30 artists. Paintings and installations by Bose Krishnamachari, Surendran Nair, Gigi Scaria, TV Santhosh, Rishin Zaman, Nithin Das, Dodsy Antony, Manoj Vyloor and many others are on show.

“The exhibition is an extension of the annual artwork showcase held in Kochi by Cochin Art Cube. This present is for artists exterior Kochi and budding artists who had been chosen on the idea of their work at diploma reveals in faculty. The younger artists are given a platform to showcase their work with skilled artists,” says Sunder.

An ode to decay

The curator says the exhibition’s theme is rooted in a liminal area between custom and modernity.

Sriya Srinivas’s Nest of Dreams, a watercolour portray, depicts a chicken making a nest out of dry leaves atop a department, which itself appears to have begun to shrivel. The dry leaves present padding for the nest, which is manufactured from twigs. Decay, on this context, results in one thing new.

Akhilesh DR’s oil on canvas portray, Jackfruit, depicts an ecosystem surrounding a jackfruit tree. The overripe fruits feasted on by squirrels and the leaves eaten by goats — all level to sustenance surrounding a single entity, and that at its varied levels of growth or decay, it has shoppers.

Surendran’s Pensive Treepie is from his critically-acclaimed collection Cuckoonebulopolis, a utopia talked about in Ornithes (Birds) by Aristophanes in 414 BC, situated between heaven and earth. The portrait incorporates a crying lady resembling the treepie, a chicken.

Bose has exhibited Stretched Bodies from his Human Bodies collection. The artist has used a squeezer and masks to realize the patterns. Red, inexperienced, blue, and yellow dominate the canvas. The strategy of including paint drops to the canvas to acquire a novel sample offers a three-dimensional nature.

Godfrey Das’s two work are based mostly on a scene on the Kozhikode seashore. The watercolour depictions of a vegetated space are 5 years aside. While one is a duplicate of the scene crammed with greenery, staying true to his imaginative and prescient, the second image options hermits in white robes, coming into the forest, leaving civilisation. The portray appears to be like at decay by the lens of self-acceptance.

Rishin’s woodcut set up’s distinctive design utilizing a number of colors is troublesome to realize. The piece, set within the backdrop of a family, is cautiously formed to mirror a mom and son working with coconut branches.

A metallic set up on the exhibition, Smile that Never Faded, by Sumesh BS, stands out with its portrayal of a lady surrounded by kitchen utensils evocative of a picture of a society steeped in misogyny. Mixers, grinders, a pulley used within the effectively, puttu kutti (a utensil used to make puttu)… the checklist of devices holding her down goes on.

The exhibition is on till September 20.