The Colors of Everyday

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Art is a semicolon for our life; on either side, the independent clause is related but a breathing connector, helps us ease our routine. You will still get irritated with the bump holes, changing government policies, changing socio-economics among other labyrinthine problems of life, but knowing that each of us go through the same and when captured on an easel, it relieves you. Look back, after five years, and you’ll realise your worries were in vain. Meanwhile, take a glance at the everyday trance.

Aptly named as Trance Everyday, Moshe Sayan, a self-taught Hyderabadi artist, uses vivid colors to capture the rainbow of colours in the sky. You may have captured from your cubicle at work, while sipping some chai or from your pantry or from your balcony but the watercolors carry their own charm. While oleographs, serigraphs are like nymphs and gods in heaven—beautiful but unattainable, watercolors and sketches are the shiny pebbles on earth—natural and attainable.


A woman dancing to some tune, wearing exquisite jewelry, and perfecting her pose; A chaiwala in the monsoon, straining tea leaves; a maiden carrying a steel pot and walking to a discrete location; a car stuck in the traffic; shades of sky and titled as Haiku. I loved Ilayaraaja’s portrait—it seemed lifelike. A portrait of a station, reminded me of Bijay Biswaal's Railway Paintings. The tones, the brushstrokes, the colors used to distinguish smoke, sky and the beauty of everyday, indeed makes it: Trance Everywhere.




The exhibition is on till October 21, 2019 at the Gallery Art CafĂ© and in the adjoining Kalakriti Gallery is a vibrant display of Glass Art by India's only Glass Sculptor, Sisir Sahana, that you mustn’t miss. The glass, molded by fire, and given a buffet of shapes, will mersmerise you. Here’s a peek:








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