Arts_Illustrated_-_February-March_2016

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black gets illuminated as a lamp glowing in
the darkness,’ she says. The images in her
work guide Seema Kohli to the medium.
‘A certain image may demand to be a
sculpture,’ she says, ‘a certain concept only
as an installation and a certain emotion
as an experiential performance.’ She says
her style has not changed but evolved. ‘I
personally believe as an artist that I keep
flowing like a river, keep expanding as a
fragrance and keep evolving by breaking my
own boundaries.’
For Arpana, the evolution of her art is
a different story altogether. ‘Earlier, my
figures filled the canvas and were too

direct,’ she says. ‘Now I like more mystery.

I also like the eye to wander. I have done a

few installations too like “Painting is Not

Dead” in my Chennai solo in Gallery Veda,

I used a long canvas laid on a table, hospital

drips, blobs of colour from the syringe tip

and a blackboard on which visitors drew

with colour pastels to experience the joy of

drawing. But, primarily, I’m a painter and

the flat surface of the canvas calls me to

weave a world on it and I swim in colour.’

From darkness to light, Seema Kohli,

Mixed Media on Canvas with 24 kt

Gold & Silver leaf, 48'' x 72", 2016

Image Courtesy of

Gallerie Nvya and the Artist

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