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| comment | | "parent_author":"",<br>"parent_permlink":"art",<br>"author":"heroldius",<br>"permlink":"eye-of-art-6-bharti-kher",<br>"title":"Eye of Art #6 : Bharti Kher",<br>"body":"A weekly series to share my art discovery with first the work that caught my eye...\nLast week,<br> I went to see the exhibition **Points de D\u00e9part Points qui Lient** gathering the last works of **Bharti Kher**. Great exhibition in order to (re)discover this artist,<br> many works with sculptures,<br> collage with *bindis*,<br> plaster... It's difficult to choose one but the series of old maps with bindis are very interesting.\n\n![Ive seen more things than I dare to remember 4.jpg (https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/DQmULKebhFU2iaG7eVLHwaACFMvm3FV66TNfwNM9dzz4HTj\/Ive%20seen%20more%20things%20than%20I%20dare%20to%20remember%204.jpg)\n> I\u2019ve seen more things than I dare to remember 4,<br> Bindis on paper map,<br> 2015\n\n#### WHO\n\n![line_grey.jpg (https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/DQmfMhUaH3HF8siHj92SQNJ9uZgbspA1dssVg4E3NsPDr65\/line_grey.jpg)\n\nBorn in 1969 in London,<br> **Bharti Kher** is an Indian artist with a degree in painting at Newcatle Polytechnic in 1991. After her studies,<br> she flipped a coin,<br> heads New-Yotk,<br> tails New Delhi. And the destiny decided direction India in 1993 and her work will changed with the energy of the country,<br> a time of tensions between the old and the new. \n\nMany of her works shows the problems of Indian society like **Mother and Child** that came about after thee 2012 Delhi gang rape case. The artist tried to understand \"*Who are these boys and sons who then inflict such violence on other women ?\". And sadly,<br> still in the news in all around the world... Or with this plaster of **Six women**,<br> prostitutes of the red light district of Kolkata.\n\n![line_grey.jpg (https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/DQmfMhUaH3HF8siHj92SQNJ9uZgbspA1dssVg4E3NsPDr65\/line_grey.jpg)\n\n<div class=\"pull-left\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/DQmQHovAyPatE8KVvzCopMsAhoBiSPXb3CMpnVRbPqnS6vQ\/Mother%20and%20Child.jpg\" \/>\n\n> Mother and Child,<br> Resin wood and wax,<br> 014\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"pull-right\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/DQmUmtXf4YoD3rVy1W9mqHWCes8hwuSnJqYZtfmMhyWs8rj\/Six%20Women.jpg\" \/>\n\n> Six Women,<br> plaster and wood,<br> 2013-2015\n<\/div>\n\n![line_grey.jpg (https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/DQmfMhUaH3HF8siHj92SQNJ9uZgbspA1dssVg4E3NsPDr65\/line_grey.jpg)\n\n#### WHAT\n\n![line_grey.jpg (https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/DQmfMhUaH3HF8siHj92SQNJ9uZgbspA1dssVg4E3NsPDr65\/line_grey.jpg)\n\nShe works with Indian materials as sari fabric and especially *bindis*,<br> a word derived from the Sanskrit meaning point,<br> dot or small particle and rootedin in ritual traditions. The bindi evoled over time to become more fashionable with a lot of sizes,<br> colors and shapes. \n\n> \"My works becoma a text,<br> like a Morse code that I have created and,<br> through them,<br> I can actually speak in tongues,<br> I can speak in code,<br> I can speak in secret.\" - Bharti Kher in Conversation with Bathi Kher,<br> 2017\n\n![An Absence of Assignable Cause.jpg (https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/DQmRBLyhyhnw2zLD5qcmGn2HoAVrQJ3ZtoRAdzZQ3oDseRk\/An%20Absence%20of%20Assignable%20Cause.jpg)\n\n> An Absence of Assignable Cause,<br> fiberglass and bindis,<br> 2016\n\nThis sculpture is an imagining heart of the blue whale made in scale (173 x 300 x 116 cm) and covered full of bindis.\n\nGreat exhibition (and free :-)) at [DHC\/Art (dhc-art.org\/fr\/) to see the works of this artist with also her new series **Heroides** refering to the Ovid's The Heroines,<br> female voices of Greek and Roman mythology,<br> all made with bindis and automobile lacquer on board.\n\n![line_green.jpg (https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/DQmZPTieLt7Y6SzivSWqypyzqnMv5YSg9spLepEiMjTpEew\/line_green.jpg)\n\n<div class=\"pull-left\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/DQmYACMFjUKzswktwP1nySnFr4amusQQp1JiC8iztohivhC\/The%20Day%20they%20met.jpg\" \/>\n<\/div>\n\n#### Sources\n\n[Bharti Kher at Galerie Perrotin (www.perrotin.com\/fr\/artists\/Bharti_Kher\/39#news)\n[DHC\/Art Montreal (dhc-art.org\/fr\/)\n[Bharti Kher on Wiki (en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bharti_Kher)\n\n#### Old Post Eye of Art\n\n[Eye of Art #5 Luiz Zerbini (\n[Eye of Art #4 Jean Prouv\u00e9 (https:\/\/steemit.com\/art\/@heroldius\/eye-of-art-4-jean-prouve)\n[Eye of Art #3 Constance Guisset (https:\/\/steemit.com\/art\/@heroldius\/eye-of-art-3-constance-guisset)\n\n< The Day the met,<br> wooden staircases and sari,<br> 2011\n\n![line_green.jpg (https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/DQmZPTieLt7Y6SzivSWqypyzqnMv5YSg9spLepEiMjTpEew\/line_green.jpg)",<br>"json_metadata":" \"tags\":[\"art\",<br>\"design\",<br>\"painting\",<br>\"photography\" ,<br>\"image\":[\"https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/DQmULKebhFU2iaG7eVLHwaACFMvm3FV66TNfwNM9dzz4HTj\/Ive%20seen%20more%20things%20than%20I%20dare%20to%20remember%204.jpg\",<br>\"https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/DQmfMhUaH3HF8siHj92SQNJ9uZgbspA1dssVg4E3NsPDr65\/line_grey.jpg\",<br>\"https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/DQmQHovAyPatE8KVvzCopMsAhoBiSPXb3CMpnVRbPqnS6vQ\/Mother%20and%20Child.jpg\",<br>\"https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/DQmUmtXf4YoD3rVy1W9mqHWCes8hwuSnJqYZtfmMhyWs8rj\/Six%20Women.jpg\",<br>\"https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/DQmRBLyhyhnw2zLD5qcmGn2HoAVrQJ3ZtoRAdzZQ3oDseRk\/An%20Absence%20of%20Assignable%20Cause.jpg\",<br>\"https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/DQmZPTieLt7Y6SzivSWqypyzqnMv5YSg9spLepEiMjTpEew\/line_green.jpg\",<br>\"https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/DQmYACMFjUKzswktwP1nySnFr4amusQQp1JiC8iztohivhC\/The%20Day%20they%20met.jpg\" ,<br>\"links\":[\"dhc-art.org\/fr\/\",<br>\"www.perrotin.com\/fr\/artists\/Bharti_Kher\/39#news\",<br>\"en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bharti_Kher\",<br>\"https:\/\/steemit.com\/art\/@heroldius\/eye-of-art-4-jean-prouve\",<br>\"https:\/\/steemit.com\/art\/@heroldius\/eye-of-art-3-constance-guisset\" ,<br>\"app\":\"steemit\/0.1\",<br>\"format\":\"markdown\" " |
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