Green Fingers

For Delhi-based artist Anjum Singh,the deconstruction is as fascinating as the creation itself.

For Delhi-based artist Anjum Singh,the deconstruction is as fascinating as the creation itself. Her show All That Glitters is Litter at Vadhera Art Gallery an assortment of 16 paintings,sculptures and installations hints at her overriding concern for the environment,with the changing Delhi skyline as a backdrop.

If the edginess is palpable in Minim a room full of eerie tall stubs of trees,made of perspex and aluminium Singh,41,further jolts the consciousness with a heap of garbage,also titled All That Glitters is Litter,in silk screen on perspex. Her oil canvases are equally anxiety-ridden,with a cigarette stub splashed across the canvas in Stub.

Singh,who trained in oil painting in Shantiniketan,later learnt print making from Concoran School of Art,Washington DC,and has given an unmistakable Indian vocabulary to installations,an entirely western concept,in which themes such as globalisation reflect the dishevelled state of city. Its not just my concerns that are being expressed. It is everybodys concern. Its hard not to miss the city where I was brought up,in a perpetual state of change,being dishevelled for a better tomorrow. Thats what is reflected in the works, says Singh,who has been working on the project since 2007. The material used in the creations is industrial and all the images are organic,so the trees in Minim look aloof and brooding. The canvases begin at Rs 7.5 lakh while installations begin at Rs 1.5 lakh.

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Singh next plans to articulate the palpable insecurity in the city after the terror attacks. The though occurred to me when I saw a cow passing through a metal detector one day and it struck me as being very ironic, she smiles. (EFS)

The exhibition is on till February 9 at Vadehra Art Gallery,D 178 Okhla Industrial Area,Phase 1.

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