ARUNA SAMIVELU
  • Home
  • Work / Arbeiten
  • EVENTS / AUSSTELLUNGEN
    • PAST EVENTS
  • Blog
  • VITA
  • Press
  • CONTACT

Communication using Repetition and Patterns

29/11/2020

0 Comments

 
Picture
I am posting here after a gap of 4 weeks. I have been happily busy during this time and have a chance to look back my work with a little distance.
My work is conceptual. In this past year I used repeating angles, geometric shapes and I am able now to perceive a pattern. 
In today's post I show you a page from my sketch book, where I have just used repeating lines: consequent, straight, hand drawn. There is a rhythmic pattern that emerges, almost like a bar code. 
A bar code is used to communicate, classify, store information.
My sketch, in this case, just pretends to be that: a simulacrum.
One can actually communicate using other means available to an artist: the instruments used, the ground, the colours, the forms one uses.
More about that in my next post!
Much light! 
​Stay safe, stay healthy!
0 Comments

Celebrating six years of my blog!

25/10/2020

0 Comments

 
Picture
Picture
Picture
This week's post marks six years of my blog!
It has been a wonderful journey, full of opportunities to learn. I am truly grateful for that.
I would like to use this opportunity to point to upcoming events!
Would love to see as many of you as possible.
Much light!
0 Comments

Bauhaus weavers

18/10/2020

0 Comments

 
Picture
Picture
Picture Credit: Tate Modern
If one looks at my current work, the question that arises is: What lies behind these geometric patterns? What looks like a tapestry with geometric forms on it could bring a comparison with the weavers of the Bauhaus, Gunta Stölzl and Anni Albers, in viewers' minds. The women of the Bauhaus represent the embodiment of a new movement in art history. They investigated the properties of modern material, especially its feel and texture. They were looking at durability, lightness and experimenting with combinations of new materials. I, on the other hand, would like to point at our excesses and our non-mindful way of our lives.
Keeping in line with my concept, my works include repetitive geometric shapes and angles. For me, the repetitive geometric patterns are an extension of a tradition from my Indian homeland: "Kolams". You can read about this cultural expression here. Repetition, by itself, is a natural phenomenon and underlies life itself. There are thousands upon thousands of possibilities, but only one realization.
In this series, the repeating patterns bring the packaging materials (here used sackcloth) to life again. The burlap, which is normally disposed of after its long sea route, is designed with a very earthy, limited colour palette. The individual luminous stripes give the work a contemporary feel.
​Much light!
0 Comments

Introspection again

13/9/2020

0 Comments

 
Picture
I have decided to take some time off to introspect.
I will henceforth post in my blog as and when I feel the need to communicate.
I am now taking a break for myself. I am at present working on a series of patterns on burlap (jute bags, upcycled). 
In my post today for a while, I present to you the detail of my latest series.
​Much light! Stay well!
0 Comments

The power of humble lines

6/9/2020

0 Comments

 
Picture
Picture
This weeks post is a charcoal and graphite drawing on canvas (50 x 50 cm). This work is a rendition of sketches from my sketch book.
As I was browsing through my work last week, I was reminded of Nasreen Mohamedi, an Indian artist, whose powerful line drawings  were much ahead of their time. The image on the right resonates strongly within me. She did not date or give her work any titles. I would definitely like to see her work in person.
Much light!
0 Comments

Non Objective Art: Catching up with the past

30/8/2020

0 Comments

 
Picture
This week I post to you a new work I am adding to a series I did in 2018. 
This is done with pastel and charcoal on wood veneer (30 x 30 cm). I do these works at the kitchen table, when I have returned from my atelier.
This gives me a chance to browse through the many snap shots I have made and discover many interesting coincidences.
I was reminded of Nasreen Mohamedi, an Indian artist way ahead of her times and someone whose work I have not yet seen in person. I admire her grit very much. She stayed true to her calling.
​Much light!
0 Comments
<<Previous
Forward>>

    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. 

    Archives

    July 2022
    May 2021
    February 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014

Copyright: Aruna Samivelu
All texts and pictures on this website are copyrighted material.