Artist Kaveri Bharata’s art show adds ceramic, colors and memories to Chennai

Artist Kaveri Bharat’s ongoing exhibition, fifty -50, is an ODE for his visit as an artist and a ceramicist in collaboration with the fifty -50, Madras coalition frances. “Inspired by my grandfather’s sculpture, I always played in mud and soil as a child. The last 30 years of making, teaching and thinking through clay are shown in a mud vessel on performance here,” says Kaveri.

Chennai-born Cauvery grew up in a very non-traditional family, who encouraged her love to make her love with her hands. “For my parents, education was very important, but not necessarily schooling. The emphasis was not to go out and earn a lot of money.”

Kaveri Bharath | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

Still at school, he and four other students assured their principal to offer art as a main subject in high school and found him a good art teacher.

“One day, he saw that we were sitting under the trees, taking a turn to teach ourselves to sketch. He quickly found a teacher who became a big blessing.”

Ceramic Works | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

Clay

Ever since, he has adopted an unconventional path, working in the theater and trainees under artists, until he found calling him in soil work in 1995. She started learning the basics of the artist and her husband, Hans Kaushik, Madras, and then from Studio Alpha to Yelwal in Padma Rajagopal, Yelwal.

She went to join a full -time course at the Golden Bridge Pottery in Pondicherry, (GBP) under Clay Artists Re Meikar and Debora Smith, after which she began to assist.

A notable milestone was his six -week journey in Japan earlier this year, which greatly inspired his recent pieces, a Japanese Anagama kiln.

The exhibition has a city of a Japanese clay utensils in specific forms of some pieces of business, known for its rustic, unrelated surfaces; And other people use clay like people from the scigucky, which have fragments of feldes, which emerge during firing. Fire and natural soil interaction, creating effects like wooden ash and melting on soil, is an important inspiration.

There are pieces and sketches of water, something she raised during the epidemic, when a fellow artist, AV Dhanushkodi encouraged her to try her hand in the medium. “During that one year of guidance from him every week, I came to know how I forgot how much I love to sketch in school. So, I came back and I started doing these faces, which you can see in this exhibition too.”

Quilt made frame | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

Visitors, inspired by their grandmother’s quilt, can also find a quilt -made frame.

“In 2000, when I was banned from working in my studio due to health concerns after miscarriage, I learned to quilte with my grandmother and made a channel in my creative energy.

The inauguration of the exhibition on its 5th birthday and its title significance, “Fifty looked like an important milestone and was the reason for celebrating. Every aspect of this show is important for my life and work.”

FIFTI -50 is currently on the Alliance Frances of Madras till 22 August. (Closed on 15 August and 16 August) from 10.30 am to 6.30 pm.