Olive Beach throws open its doors to art aficionados in the city to showcase  ‘Silence in Between Colours’. This is a series of paintings and sculptures by Italian-born artist Shola M Carletti. Carletti's first ever exhibition of paintings in Bangalore at Olive Beach, from November 4 - November 10, will be a tribute to this beauty of life and the power of silence. 

This special collection of paintings by Carletti is part of the series of events planned at Olive Beach to support arts and showcase interesting works and diverse talent of a cross section of artists.

On painting

Shola says painting is a “kind of meditation… a metaphor of life. When I get lost, either in colours or in life, I stop for a while and I touch my inner silence!

That is the moment I look for the balance between life’s turmoil and the abundance of colours and that white and silent gap in between. It is in that moment, in that gap that I reach my goal…"  

It is difficult to categorise Shola’s artworks as simple paintings as they appear much more like real installations, hiding a special component in their most intimate essence.

The main component of these works is gold, a powerful and dense colour, both physical and spiritual, that transpires lively, bright, transparent and fragile shades. Here the creative and human elements meet and run parallel until they separate.

They show the human will's relativity in the mainstream of life. From a technical point of view these artworks are original in their style as they represent a conceptual synthesis between the matter and the colour.

Sometimes the colour becomes antithetical, nearly paradoxical. It is thick, and doesn't allow the light to go through it and it is fluid, transparent and variable as the light's reflections on the glass.

The work

Carletti's paintings are like irregular energy conglomerates, entities in continuous being. They are like elements transforming emotions and experiences of everyday life into a different dimension that is immortal and artistic at the same time.

Works that are essential in the purity of their aesthetical shape and that tend to be high, just like entities to be discovered or vital force to interact with. These elegant and golden structures refer to the supreme essence of existence.

The artist thinks, creates and communicates of living entities that are in continuous evolution and regression. In a sense they are the proof that the natural living cycle is determined by mankind’s actions and that everyone’s destiny reacts to the rules of an unknown design.