Emotions play out on canvas
Art gallery at Jenneys Residency to get an insight into game painting
By : purnima sah
Update: 2015-05-16 06:57 GMT
COIMBATORE: Heard of game painting? Just look at the walls of the art gallery at Jenneys Residency to get an insight into game painting. “Game paintings are like a football court where we play the game of emotions, expectations and dreams. We are trapped by a lot of situation-based problems,” says artist Nijesh.
His paintings depict young minds tangled between games of life fraught with depression, disturbance and intolerance. In the paintings, the youth look for a moment of peace and tolerance but he fails in every attempt as his movements are restricted.
On an another canvas, there is a sportsman juxtaposed with a little orphan who wants to run free. A picture by another artist, Pradeep Unni, presents the feet of a girl taking careful steps - symbolically conveys the lack of security and sexual violence against women. “Every step of a girl is very tough, unsafe and her life has no surety.”
A series of hunter paintings brings out the similarities in behaviour of human beings and other animals. “On Earth, living and non-living organisms have an equal role. But aggressiveness, especially directed towards its own species, is making human beings our planet’s No. 1 enemy.”
Paintings of Nijesh have one thing in common - there is an aircraft hovering around every frame. Explaining the reason, he says, “Airplanes are symbols of heights and freedom and same goes with dragonflies. As a child, I have been always connected with these two things. But the incidents of hijacking of planes create panic among passengers.” The exhibition-cum-sale is open to the public from 11 am to 7 pm on all days. The price of paintings ranges from Rs 30,000 to Rs 3 lakh.