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Mathematical Proportions

When one looks at German artist Peter Ruehle’s painting from a distance,more often than not,it could be mistaken for a simple canvas divided by a thick line. As one moves closer,the lines metamorphose into intricately painted cityscape as imagined from the horizon. Titled Berlin,Roma,and Venezia,based on the cities he visited,Ruehle’s works indicate a peculiar sense of proportion and style as he sets his cityscape against stark white or black backgrounds. Look closer,and one might recognise a landmark or two (see inset).

Mean Machine

A rugged Maruti 800,morphed into an exagerrated shape,with eccentric industrial parts attached to the roof was Ram Rahman’s discovery,as it stood parked near his back gate. Titled Self Defence by Delhi-based artist Badal Chitrakar,“that it had been done on a working car and on such a scale,and never intending to be exhibited,makes it fall into ‘outsider art’,” reads Rahman’s note. Chitrakar adds how dogs bark at him whenever the car passes by.

Faith Connection

In Mother Rachel,censored faces of soldiers appears against the backdrop of a war field. By 33-year-old Israeli artist Ayelet Albeuda,this work goes back to the 2009 war at the Gaza where several Israeli soldiers claimed to have been rescued by a “Mother Rachel”,who,according to a Biblical reference,“saves her sons”. Her works comprise snapshots of videos of these soldiers with a white light blanking their faces. This is Albeuda’s first exhibit in India,made specially for UAF.