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10 April 2008 - The Nine Emotions Exhibition (Tara Publications)
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The Erotic. The Valorous. The Furious. The Terror-stricken. The Pathetic. The Comic. The Disgusting. The Marvellous. The Peaceful. Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery and Tara Publishing are delighted to announce the launch of an exhibition to be held at the new Conway Street gallery.
The huge specially-painted film hoardings that dominate city roads across much of
India rely on compelling renderings of character and emotion to advertise their
wares: heroic, virile men with swords and pistols on the draw; moustachioed faces
contorted with red rage; lovers swooning under a glistening yellow moon...
Tara Publishing have produced a book - The 9 Emotions of Indian Cinema Hoardings -
to accompany the exhibition.
Please contact James Green at the gallery for more information or images.According to a second-century Indian theory of aesthetics, there is a spectrum of nine emotions that
the superior work of art should evoke and represent. This exhibition focuses upon each of these distinct emotions through a startling contemporary visual context: the art of the Indian cinema billboard.
But as new methods of poster-printing and photo-reproduction become more readily
available, the hoarding-painter’s art is under threat. For The 9 Emotions exhibition the renowned South Indian hoarding-painter M.P. Dhakshna and his studio collaborators –
Balu, Raghunathan and Chandrakantha - have produced a vivid specially-commissioned series of large-scale images embodying the nine specific emotions celebrated in Indian art
and drama. Each one is fixed in an imagined but typical scenario – as though it were the star of its own film. They are paintings of arresting power, drama, and – emotion.
India rely on compelling renderings of character and emotion to advertise their
wares: heroic, virile men with swords and pistols on the draw; moustachioed faces
contorted with red rage; lovers swooning under a glistening yellow moon...
Tara Publishing have produced a book - The 9 Emotions of Indian Cinema Hoardings -
to accompany the exhibition.
Please contact James Green at the gallery for more information or images.According to a second-century Indian theory of aesthetics, there is a spectrum of nine emotions that
the superior work of art should evoke and represent. This exhibition focuses upon each of these distinct emotions through a startling contemporary visual context: the art of the Indian cinema billboard.
But as new methods of poster-printing and photo-reproduction become more readily
available, the hoarding-painter’s art is under threat. For The 9 Emotions exhibition the renowned South Indian hoarding-painter M.P. Dhakshna and his studio collaborators –
Balu, Raghunathan and Chandrakantha - have produced a vivid specially-commissioned series of large-scale images embodying the nine specific emotions celebrated in Indian art
and drama. Each one is fixed in an imagined but typical scenario – as though it were the star of its own film. They are paintings of arresting power, drama, and – emotion.