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Creative Vision
He's no clairvoyant,
but you might think otherwise if you saw artist B.D. Jagadish's painting
in Bangalore last week. On display at Chitrakala Parishat was an oil painting
showing an aeroplane crashing into the twin towers of the World Trade
Centre (WTC), flashing fireballs, bodies hanging out of the buildings
and people watching the disturbing scenes. Wrong, it was not done after
September 11 this year.
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| REALITY BITES: Jagadish (above) at WTC;
(below) a painted "prediction"? |
Jagadish says he made this painting two years
after a 1995 visit to New York City. "While I was attending a conference
at WTC, I happened to see many planes and helicopters flying around the
twin towers," he recalls. "It made me wonder what would happen
if one of them crashed into the towers." Jagadish transferred his
thoughts on to canvas in an uncanny painting titled Tragedy Building.
The then-inconsequential picture was even featured in a book published
by the Karnataka Lalit Kala Akademi in 1998. "For me it was just
a creative instinct to paint that scenario," he says now. Knowing
the FBI, they might soon come calling.
-Stephen David
Not On The Cards
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| A GAME LOST: Merchant (left) with Vasunia |
Hosi (Vasunia) and I are together on stage after
nearly 25 years," Sabira Merchant let on. So? Despite a few engaging
moments, director Sam Khetrapal's The Rummy Game in Mumbai last week was
a bit of a disappointment. Adapted from D.L. Coburn's The Gin Game, the
play uses cards as a metaphor for the social maltreatment of the old.
Maybe it was Merchant's stiffness. Or Vasunia's over-the-top acting. Or
was it the lack of warmth that left the crowd cold?
-Himanshi Dhawan
Peace Offering
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| THINKING MAN: Model Ayesha Prem (right)
in an outfit by Dubal |
The US may have other ideas, but this man is
crying "Peace". Delhi designer Sonam Dubal held an exhibition
of clothes based on that theme "which is deeply embedded in Buddhism"
at Ogaan in Santushti complex last week. His clothes borrowed heavily
from fabrics, colours and silhouettes worn by the Tibetan laity and monks.
Body Talk
"Israel is very aggressive," says Amir Kolben, artistic director
of Israeli dance company Kombina. "It's always in the news for bad
news." Good news guys, Kolkata was
smitten by his troupe last week.
 Kombina,
which means innovations, lived up to its name on a visit to the city.
The audience was won over with a witty opening mime about the show rules
of the switch-off-your-cellphones kind. The finale was an interactive
session where the applause set the rhythm for the dance. In between came
an item on clockwork people set inside a toy cupboard, and a dance with
masks. "I wanted to talk to people about dance without explaining
every little bit," says Kolben. It's called body language.
-Labonita Ghosh
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