Exhibition
RASA: Essence of India
13 Jan 2015 – 23 Jan 2015
Regular hours
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Monday
- 10:00 – 17:00
Cost of entry
Free entry to selling exhibition. For tickets to lecture on Thursday 22nd January contact 07779 590921
Address
- 1 Kensington Gore
- (Exhibition Road Entrance)
- London
- SW7 2AR
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Tube: South Kensington
Natasha Kumar will be exhibiting her Rasa Collection (original works on paper) will be alongside sculpture inspired by India by Paul Vanstone.
About
This selling exhibition celebrating the ancient Indian aesthetic of RASA is in collaboration with a lecture on 22nd January in conjunction with The Royal Geographical Society, Wexas Travel, British Airways and Creative Travel. The artists Natasha Kumar and Paul Vanstone will illustrate how they capture the essence of India in their works and how they have been captivated by this fascinating continent, both as artists and as travellers. The lecture will be held in the Ondaatje Theatre of The Royal Geographical Society.
This exhibition follows an show of Natasha Kumar’s RASA story that has been at the Southbank Centre in London for five months in 2014. The RASA story began ten years ago when Natasha Kumar first began sketching the chhatri, an essential element of Northern Indian architecture. Often ornate, intricately carved, with a dome and eaves that combine Hindu and Mughal design, this motif became the central theme in her work.
Expressing the moods evoked by the chhatris at different times of day, Natasha took the contrasting colours from Rajasthani life; the bold fluorescent pinks and oranges, dark red and turquoise. At was whilst at the Royal Chhatris at Bundi in Rajasthan that Natasha discovered the concentric circles carved on the inside of the chhatri dome and the RASA collection was born.
For online catalogue, price and further information contact:
info@natashakumar.co.uk
07779 590921