Art and Spaces
Is art for everyone?
Can a layman like me understand the nuance of the work an artist spent years or months creating enough to interpret and write about it and describe the feelings that were triggered as a response to it?
Art has never been my cup of tea, and to understand the story behind a white canvas with white paint or black sheets scribbled with silver pen poses a weird challenge. A challenge to create stories out of visions we don’t understand or know how to interpret and make them digestible by the masses.
Art is not for masses but the stories are. Whenever a wave of inspiration strikes a creative fellow, it leaves a flood of ideas and interpretations in the person’s mind. The person who decides to pour these visions on a canvas does it to hang it on a wall for other people to see and interpret.
Why does every artist aspire for the wall, or the room to hand their canvases (not specific to a white board) on?
There is always a deeper connection between an artist and his art, which is the spaces. Human brain is habitual to interpreting shapes and colors that surround us. And for an artist’s work to gain meaning, it is important for it to be displayed so that the thought process can happen.
Every art exhibition can be a similar experience but it never is, because the spaces that the art is set in allows different narratives. We relate art to the spaces it is displayed in and understand it simultaneously.
Triveni Kala Sangam gives you one such experience.it is not just any multi-storied house of art, its a house of artists expressing art in the spaces. Every corner of that place speaks, dances, and breathes art. It’s as if they are united and one is incomplete without the other. There is a very strong co-relation between the art and the space it is proudly presented in by the artist.
Art just as a paper, form or canvas is inaccessible to the public but spaces like these houses them for people to immerse themselves in the experience that it is. It is not just a gallery, it presents art as an experience for the visitors to soak it up as they travel along.
Interactive art is a new form of art which is being explored by multiple artists who wish to break the conventional barriers, something as liberating as art can have barriers that need to be broken.
Hosting multiple in house artists as well welcoming outsiders with open arms, Triveni breaks them free from societal norms and lets them express and spread the magic of their thoughts all across the city.
From huge canvases dripping in bright colors, to handmade books describing the artists tryst with his or her life, the aura of Triveni is captivating. Even the silences hymn there speaking highly of the artists that share their life stories with the decorated walls of the gallery.
For the old times sake and an ode to the newer times, spaces like Triveni does art proud and enhance the meaning of the artist and his work allowing laymen like me to experience art in a non-fancy and truer and deeper meaning while learning all there is to about life.
