Vidhya Gouresan Nair
Co-Founder and Curatorial Director
Curator’s Sanctum
Vidhya Gouresan Nair
Co-Founder and Curatorial Director
curator’s pick
P. GNANA
‘Meenakshy’
from the ‘Revival’ series
Oil on Canvas
120 cm x 180 cm
2019
‘Meenakshy’ confronts you as the inaugural piece of P. Gnana’s recent series entitled ‘Revival’, whereby the leading painter-sculptor invokes the unique personality of his subject on canvas by honouring her with a beautiful and meaningful name, in an effort to revive the appreciation of the splendour and cultural value in traditional Indian names. It is intriguing to note that, in this respect, an image personifies a name, whereby its literal definition is not compelled to be epitomised as the subject matter in the painting. In other words, ‘Meenakshy’ is ‘alive’ in her own right, on her own terms, gorgeously and receptively.
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‘Heritage with Vidhya’ is Singapore-born Vidhya Gouresan Nair’s YouTube channel that features engaging and insightful interviews, tours and documentations of processes, personalities and perspectives in relation to art that is multi-dimensional, multi-cultural and multi–sensorial; and within the generic genre of human heritage and tendencies that lean towards the concepts of creativity, healing, love and well-being, while relentlessly summoning the courage to speak the truth of the moment.
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About Gnani Arts
Founded in early 2003, The Gallery of Gnani Arts has been a local and regional trend-setter within its area of research, curation and collection expertise – South Indian contemporary art by masters and international artists. Apart from curating and marketing its primary collection of art by masters and senior artists, the Gallery continues to launch the careers of a selective number of artists from Singapore (where it is based) and from other parts of the globe. Clients of The Gallery of Gnani Arts include the Singapore Art Museum of the National Heritage Board (Singapore) and numerous corporations and individuals in Europe and Southeast Asia.
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