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The cycle of life
Double Helix’, an exhibition of paintings by Asma Menon and Rekha Rao is currently being held at Kalakriti Art Gallery. The literal meaning of ‘Double Helix’ is a pair of parallel helices intertwined about a common axis, especially in a structure of the DNA molecule. The exhibition will be open till December 10.
Artists Asma Menon and Rekha Rao have a similar meaning to their works and they talk about it...
‘Double Helix’, an exhibition of paintings by Asma Menon and Rekha Rao is currently being held at Kalakriti Art Gallery. The literal meaning of ‘Double Helix’ is a pair of parallel helices intertwined about a common axis, especially in a structure of the DNA molecule. The exhibition will be open till December 10.
Whereas Asma Menon’s work is multi-layered in conception, be it, painting, printmaking or drawing, all sport motifs of clairvoyance. One can find a labyrinthine of a maze of lines, enmeshed with a narrative, on a single plane.
Asma said, “I always manage to bridge the gap between the ancestral and contemporary with my cosmopolitan yet deeply Indian character. I focus on a unique life path that links the myth with everyday life and nature.”
One can see trees, animals, as well as human and divine figures in her paintings. She has tried to depict the past with the present, where you can see a cart and elephant riding, too. In another of her paintings, she showcases the birth of a child with the mother.
Rekha Rao, on the other hand, feels a sense of loss and sadness for a brutally battered environment. “For me, memory and experience has thrown up multiple images and perspectives from time to time. I have seen industry coming up in places where there were none.
Our economy is rising gradually and we are neglecting our environment. Our selfishness is leading us on this path of self-destruction,” she states. According to her, beyond the predicament of human experience there are elemental forces and areas of life that are accessible.
And it is this area that allows her to travel and delve out images. Colour is at the core of her paintings, and she hopes her paintings will communicate, energise and restore some semblance of equilibrium between man and nature and art that can bridge the chasm.
One of Rekha’s works shows a peepal tree around which one sees people worshipping and performing puja. They are shown praying to nature for nature, which was an interesting painting for that reason.
By:Askari Jaffer
