By Ankita Mahendru Cows of different shapes, sizes and colours flock “Tri-angles, 3 Arts about India”, an exhibition by three French artists Mélanie Dornier, a photographer; Catherine Khosla, a sculptor; and Marie-Laure Hubert, a painter. Currently residents of Delhi, they portray their impressions of India through their individual art forms at the Galerie Romain Rolland, Alliance Francaise. “We decided to bring all our arts together in one exhibition and India was the obvious choice as a theme as this is where our eyes and minds opened up,” says Hubert. The exhibition, though themed on the different faces of India, leans towards rural landscapes than urban. Each of the artwork is arranged to portray continuity with similar paintings and photographs placed next to each other. Dornier’s focus is on the rural and lower middle-class India. Her photographs emphasize the details; many taken during her stay in Bangalore. In a quadriptych, there’s a photograph of the entrance to a house with a purple curtain and hand prints all around the wall, while a child waits to be dressed in a flowery dress in the panel next to it. Khosla has been living in Delhi for more than five years now and started sculpting with clay a few years ago. “The pieces are from daily lives of Indians, of the real India and not the urban city life,” she says. The face of a bride, a turbaned man, a veiled woman, a boy flying a kite, and a man resting are presented in fibreglass at this exhibition. The central attraction is a sculpture of a woman dancing, as Khosla captures her movement and her pose, rather than her face. Hubert has been in India since 2011 and fell in love with the richness of colours, smells and mostly the festivals here. Her oil paintings show India in different colours, the serenity portrayed in a girl dancing in a white sari, or the abundance of shades in the man coloured during holi or the darkness in the painting of old Delhi. The work that catches the eye is a quadriptych painting depicting two seasons which are visible through two different angles. The exhibition closes today at Alliance Francaise, Lodhi Estate. Timings: 9 am to 8 pm. Contact: 43500200 (The reporter is a student of EXIMS)
