An exhibition of Chithrakarthi
paintings on Bharatha-k-Koothu titled “Inner Flow” by Indira Seshadri,
Meenakshi Madan, Rajasi Manikandan, V.Shanmughapriya, Shobha Rajagopalan,
S.Suresh, Vaishnavi Srikanth, with the Tamil poems of Shankararamasubramanian is
on at the Lalit Kala Akademi, Greams Road, Chennai till 16th September
2012 from 11 am to 7 pm.
A informative and detailed inaugural
address was rendered by Dr.M.D.Muthukumaraswamy, Director, National Folklore
Support Center, Chennai.Passing on stories can be done in different ways.
But
when it is done with pictorial illustrations or enacted to stage they register
in the mind easily and firmly, Oral transmission of Mahabharata was
artistically channelized through the forms of Chithrakathi and shadow Puppet
Theater in the border areas between Maharashtra and Karnataka and pockets of
Andhra Pradesh. Chithrakathi is one of those traditions practiced in Pinguli, a
small village near Kudal in the Sindhudurg District of Maharashtra, dating back
to the 17th century. The exhibition ‘Inner Flow’ experiments to
infuse both these folk arts by merging the two.
The ‘Bharatha-k-koothu’ scenes
are depicted in Chithrakathi style of painting by using more modern materials;
seven different artists have painted the different episodes of
Bharatha-k-koothu in the visual idiom of Chithrakathi making the flow of light
and life illuminate both the arts, one dying and another vibrant.
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