Upcoming exhibition themed on climate change

New Delhi, Dec 12 (IANS) At a time when the world is dealing with pressing issues like climate change and global warming, artist Simran K.S. Lambas new body of work tends to set a new domain for sculptures in highlighting such vexatious issues that bothers researchers, scientists as well as humanity at large.

Titled "Chainsaw Bread", Lamba's show is set to begin at Lalit Kala Akademi in February 2018. A series of six copper and wood sculptures that tends to engage the viewer with artist's imagination of "external elements that tends to change so much in different environments," the exhibition is billed as one of the most anticipated art shows in the coming year.

"My work is based on my responses to everyday Living-I often think about how small things change so much in different environments. For me painting is really about how it can absorb the world around it. I don't think that painting has to be purified in order to become itself," said Lamba.

The artworks in the show includes an arena of mixed media that incorporates a subtle use of coal tar, metals, copper wires, mirrors and wood. The artist has created tree roots of copper embedded with convex mirrors, carved wooden trunk remnants with protruding copper tendrils metamorphosing into the violence faced by the flora and fauna while depicting 'scars' that are reminiscent of destruction done to the victimized trees.

Lamba says, that by using coal tar, wires and different media, he is harnessing the notion that painting absorbs everything around itself. He is also reinventing the idea of mixed media to echo the truth that painting especially links and blends with other media.

"It's great that a canvas can absorb other media and tar becomes a vital material because it is more than just a fusion agent," he added.

The artist's work also explores the subjects of 'rampant deforestation' and its impact on our individual psyches by posing questions of 'anonymity' and 'causality'. At the exhibition, the artist will also showcase artworks from his collection, "Nouveau" wherein he treats coal tar in various forms, layering it with diverse media through his vision resulting in a striking confluence of aesthetics and innate natural elemental beauty.

Over the last decade, the artist has expressed himself freely using complex media. The same is reflective in this present body of work that is not only significant for the choice of material which he has used but also the subject that he has chosen to bring to the fore.

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