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| ashu |
Posted
on 15-Nov-03 08:46 AM
This afternoon artist Ashmina Ranjit's disturbing and thought-provoking works of installation art were on display on the premises of the Nepal Fine Arts Association in Naxal.
The picture below -- taken from Kantipuronline -- shows only the last piece of Ashmina's work. The show ended at 6 pm.
oohi
ashu
ktm,nepal
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| ashu |
Posted
on 15-Nov-03 08:48 AM
This
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| ashu |
Posted
on 15-Nov-03 08:51 AM
Caption:
Art lovers observing an Installation Art that pictures blaze, damage, smoke, hope and vigil inside Nepal's map at Kala Upaban, Naxal. Artist Ashmina Ranjeet performs the art in subject "?!" on Saturday. (Online Photo : DEEPEDNRA BAJRACAHRYA )
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| Qallu |
Posted
on 15-Nov-03 09:36 AM
Art for arts sake is not my cup of tea either, but I am always suspicious of art that seeks so emphatically to simply make a political point. Maybe it is just installation art...becasue it often seems to me as though all installation "artists" do is come up with a clever idea, collect a few unusual objects, stick them some place and call it art. Maybe I am a traditionalist, but it seems to me these artists rely way too much on easy imagery and metaphors and prey on the spectator's emotional/political predisposition, letting that do the work for them rather than really create art that expresses the artist's unique individual aestheics and maybe speaks to an experince that transcends the personal.
This is, in no way, direct commentatry on Ashmina Ranjeet or her work of course. Having never seen her art in real life, just through pictures (the last one was about Domestic Violence wasn't it?) I cannot speak to the effectiveness, the aesthics of her installations. Actually this Nepal on Fire installation sounded really intriguing. I would have liked to have witnessed it. However, again though, my general views on installation art applies to the description of Ashmina's two installations that I am aware of - both sounded very apt/very clever and just a bit obvious. Not that art has to be oblique, highly intellectual, and inaccessible, but being obvious is not particularly interesting either.
Actually would like to hear more from the folks who participated/witnessed the installations about their views... maybe I will be convinved otherwise.
Good luck to Ashmina and thanks to Ashu for sharing.
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| mack |
Posted
on 15-Nov-03 09:45 AM
I think her work is ground breaking.
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| Bhunte |
Posted
on 15-Nov-03 11:12 AM
The artist is giving a message to Nepali and world community the current situation of the country in devastation. Everyone should try to feel how one's position is when his/her house is gutted by a fire.
Hats off to Asmina Ranjeet!
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| suva chintak |
Posted
on 15-Nov-03 01:58 PM
So we have the case of art simply imitating life, no?
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| ashu |
Posted
on 15-Nov-03 05:15 PM
Qallu,
I'll alert Ashmina to read your posting.
Time- and interest-permitting, maybe she will contribute, maybe not.
Let's see.
oohi
ashu
ktm,nepal
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| arnico |
Posted
on 15-Nov-03 11:32 PM
mack, surely you must have meant ground-burning.
Ashmita ji. VERY INTERESTING art. Congratulations for widening art's spectrum in Kathmandu.
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