Art & music show charms audience at Bharat Bhavan

BHOPAL: An international ceramic exhibition was inaugurated at Bharat Bhavan as part of its foundation day celebrations. Artists spoke about their work and their inspiration for ceramic art. Artists gave presentations about their sculpture styles, followed by live demonstrations.
Shulamit Millar from Israel, Lise Jegat Zambelli from France, Antony Merino from USA and Ve'ena Singh from India presented their artworks on the first day of the ceramic exhibition.
Martin McWilliam organized a two-hour live demonstration workshop where he elaborated on chisel sculptures made out of fired ceramic. The process McWilliam uses to create his work is a planned excavation. Solid chunks of clay are formed, scored with a design, and fired. "Prepared surfaces are struck off after the firing with a hammer and a chisel to reveal an archeological-looking core," McWilliam said, while revealing his images of pottery as well as abstract geometric patterns.
Documenting the changing trend of forest inhabitants through global phenomena will be a key theme in this exhibition. An interesting exhibit was put up by an artist from France Lise Zambelli, who elaborated on her work, saying, "Response of wild animals to global climate change trends caught my attention and I wanted to document it through my art. Coming to India is a fulfilling creative experience as I witness the deep influence of tribal forest life on the traditional artforms, which makes this a very rich culture."
Cultural musical performances wrapped up the day. The first performance was by Children Theatre Academy in which 25 artistes presented a musical symphony of songs used in the plays directed by them.
This was followed by a performance by Pt Tejendra Narayan on sarod and Pt Purvayan Chaterjee on sitar who presented soulful renditions of Hindustani classical music, beginning with Raag 'Bihaag' in Bilaval thaat.