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Do you remember...

8/12/2014

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... is the title I gave this collage I did sometime early this year. 
I needed to think of a concept for my art class. The lady in the picture happens to be Ulrike Meinhof (Credits: Photo cut out from the print version of the Berlin Daily "Tagesspiegel"I would like to give them and the photographer due credit for the photograph of Ulrike Meinhof and Charles Monroe Schulz for the Peanut Comic). 
The concept here is that these collages do not exist really and were put together for that moment only. All meaning that can be read into them come from the viewer: How would you have looked at these collages, if I had not told you that the lady in the picture is Ulrike Meinhof?

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Running into somebody...

1/12/2014

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... you never expected you would run into, makes your day. 

That's how it felt to run into Andreas Edelmann again. We were returning to Berlin from a trip to the southern part of Germany. We were feeling quite tired, having spent a large part of the dark cold winter afternoon in the train, when in walked this young musician at Braunschweig. The tiredness disappeared in a jiffy; just the thought of how adversity brings people who were earlier strangers, together, cheered me up so much. I had previously met him at the Airport in Abu Dhabi and we had missed our flight to Chennai, India. The shared misfortune quickly evaporated as we settled down at the Hotel Cafe´and munched our sandwiches. I thought we had parted ways at the Chennai Airport after a delay of over 12 hours. This time around the circumstances were different: the Deutsche Bahn contrary to its notoriuos reputation even made it to Berlin on time.

Hope to hear him play the Contrabass in Berlin soon.
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    Aruna Samivelu

    I am an artist. I live and work in Berlin.
    I started to paint colour fields (very much inspired by Mark Rothko and other American Abstract Expressionists) and now have evolved into an admirer of the Bauhaus Movement. I am still  a seeker: minimalist concrete art finds resonance in me, while the rich colours and traditional art forms of my home country that flow in me and breathe in me, also find expression in my work.
    My work, I believe is a synthesis of all these influences and seeming contradictions. I am now knocking a dent into concrete art, non objectively so to speak! I work serially and can endlessly look for emerging patterns in my work.
    This has been a wonderful journey, and as they say: the path is the destination.
    ​In my blog posts, I am letting you have a peek over my shoulder, into my sketch books and small works, which will someday flow into my big canvases and other works; works that I will actually display or exhibit (or may be not).
    My blog posts are more about my process and what motivates me to paint and create. 

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