Good Ol’ Days

“We all work on memories,there’s nothing new about it. However,what we see in this exhibition is how artists have retrieved the past and put it in the current context. The artists were given full flexibility with the medium,so there are photographs,sculptures and even works in egg tempera,” says Sunaina Anand,owner of Art Alive,about the 58 works that form the show.

Panjim-based photographer Alex Fernandes focuses on tiatristes performers of Goa in his black-and-white portraits. Tiatre,like an urban folk opera,blends music,dance and drama and was developed by immigrating Goans who worked in 19th century Bombay.

Delhi-based artist GR Iranna presents a boat,titled Dragged Boat,reshaped in the form of horseshoe,thus alluding not to its speed but the “stilled movement”. His fibre glass sleeping Buddha in Peace and Pieces,foisted onto metal boxes,appears to be entering nirvana. The twin fiberglass bells in Silenced Sound symbolise the religious bells from Iranna’s native Karnataka.

Bangalore-based Tina Bopiah’s egg tempera works are awash with skeletal figures and distended heads,hinting at the turbulent present.

The exhibition is on at S-221 Panchsheel Park till December 2. Contact 41639000