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Urban
Angst
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| Mayry
paints decay in pretty hues |
They're bright
and cheerful. But the names of Finnish painter Soile Yli Mayry's oils
- on view at Cymroza Art Gallery, Mumbai - are far from happy - (like
Burning Door and Asphalt Heart). Yet, it is alienation that is Mayry's
inspiration - of people from nature in an urban world. Point out the irony
and the 50-year-old Mayry has a ready answer: "I explain estrangement
with pretty colours. In spite of all the urban sadness, I am optimistic."
Mayry is
now planning some paintings on Mumbai based on the "millions of people
in the city". But why Mumbai? "The city is seeped in history.
Unlike the West, India and Mumbai are in touch with their past-to me that
is important, as we don't have much history in Finland." If the artist
in her is in danger of getting jaded - after 180 solo exhibitions around
the world in 35 years - Mumbai is just what the doctor ordered.
-Natasha
Israni
Culture Curry
Too many
cooks spoil the, well, curry. But the eclectic blend of poetry with pop,
rock, fusion and folk music dished out by the British Council Library
(BCL), Mumbai, and the Jindal Arts Creative Interaction Centre went down
well with the audience. "I cannot believe it worked out. It was one
of those in-the-air kind of ideas to mix poetry with music," Havovi
Kolsawalla, manager, English studies at BCL, confessed.
While Dolly
Thakore and Tom Alter read poetry by Eunice de Souza, Imtiaz Dharker,
Ranjit Hoskote and Tobias Hill, musicians Ravi Khote, Roy Venkatraman,
Austin Alphonso, Milind Chitnavis played their own soulful compositions.
Dwood, frontman for the New Music Collective band, too struck the right
note. The evening became true khichdi after Benjamin Zephaniah's Variety
is the Spice where the performers just didn't stop stringing.
-Himanshi
Dhawan
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