Artists, corporate honchos hold charity art auction
New Delhi, Aug. 30: When Bose Krishnamachari asked Sachi Lalani to mix a few colours for a new art work for his “Stretched Bodies”, she said she did not want to use black. Wondering why an artist is taking suggestions from the owner of an advertising agency?
Well, the two, like many other artists and personalities from the corporate world have come together to create works of art for a charity auction on the 10th anniversary of ‘Khushi — India on Canvas (IOC)’.
“We want to reach out to every person we can, every child we can, in order to bring alive the joys in their lives...Because we strive and live to build a better tomorrow, and transform the society through education,” Kapil Dev, the Khushi chairperson said.
Mr Krishnamachari who believes that “extremities co-exist in life and art”, decided to create an experience of performing art work for the collaboration.
He did it with “rigour and energy, pleasure and passion, freshness and warmth and movements”. And Ms Sachi wanted to be part of making the work. We were walking around the canvas and I was looking at the space in it. So I suggested she mix a few
One of India’s leading contemporary artists, Anjolie Ela Menon has also teamed up with musician and entrepreneur Ananya Birla to add an artwork in her “Women and Child” series
colours in order to make her involved in our collaboration.”
“I usually make around 40 different shades of colours and Ms Sachi told me she didn’t want to incorporate the colour black, but only include vibrant and bright colours,” the artist said.
Ms Sachi also added some strokes of the base colours on top of which Mr Bose applied textures and layering. “This collaboration was not just about me painting with him. It was about me learning from him and learning about his art. To be in Mr Bose's studio and watching him create his art from scratch, was mesmerising indeed,” she said.
One of India’s leading contemporary artists, Anjolie Ela Menon has also teamed up with musician and entrepreneur Ananya Birla to add an artwork in her “Women and Child” series.
Ms Birla painted the birds in the sky, parts of the blouse and the blue textured background under the guidance of Ms Menon.
“While I was painting, I smudged a little bit of one part of the canvas and Ms Menon sweetly said some of the best works come from beautiful mistakes,” Ms Birla said.
Another duo participating in the initiative is that of artist Jayashri Burman and Shefali Munjal, the director of Hero Corporate Service Limited. The two have created a painting on ‘Hanuman’ — a subject close to both the participants.
“When Ms Munjal and I discussed and I got to know about her preference of subject, Hanuman, and I also got excited. You see, Hanuman’s presence has a form, a distinct character along with a surrealistic image,” Ms Burman said.
Ms Munjal’s contribution was to make the flowers in the painting and colour the temples.
Other artists who took part included GR Iranna, P. Maity, S. Bhattacharya, Seema Kohli, Satish Gupta, Kisalay Vohra, Nupur Kundu, Gayatri Sekhri, Vinita Karim and R. Kaleka.