JOIN USRumi once said, “In your light, I learn how to love. In your beauty, I learn how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.”
Curator Jitendra Padam Jain picks the extraordinary out of the morass in’L’amour’, an exhibition of paintings of artist Ankur Rana being held at the Visual Arts Gallery of India Habitat Centre from July 26 to 30.
Rana’s present series of work, the man and woman signify love. The elements and objects express romanticism. The expressions and gestures on the face of the woman and the man depict whether they are falling, or actually rising in love. He has attempted to capture or freeze that beautiful and rare feeling of love which comes in everybody’s life for a short span of time.
Jain says, “A very common connotation associated with love is ‘falling in love’. But it is an amazing paradox that when we ‘fall’ in love we actually ‘rise’ in life. Humans are flawed and imprison themselves in shackles. But when love takes over, the shackles unbind and the
spirit is emancipated.”
A painting on the same concept titled “ Chariots of Love” shows an “ancient aircraft
flying and spreading heart shaped elements”, is again carrying that old but beautiful message, “Make Love Not War”.
“I have shown ancient aircrafts with a theme of romanticism. When man invented aircraft to fly in the air, he spread love through this discovery by reducing travel time to reach his loved ones. It was the time when he discovered flying with machines and never used them to destroy humanity through bombarding on innocent people for the sake of war,” says Rana.