FROM CRASS TO CLASS

NAGUESH RAO SARDESSAI

Carla, Jose and Shamoli have once again put up an exhibition of lamps and embroidered paintings at the Goa Kala Academy’s Art Gallery, Panaji.

After the critical and commercial success of their previous show, both Carla and Shamoli worked on their core competence to produce works with far more improved vigor and quality.

Carla has been producing lamps of varied genres. Table lamps, floor lamps, ceiling lamps and wall mounted lamps come out of her ‘Plush Art & Décor’ studio with a complete makeover. Each piece stands out for its independent identity. Right from the crass rustic to elegant and completely whimsical to abstract – Carla and Jose doles out the best to suit and match your décor style and artistic taste.

Shamoli’s unique embroidered paintings are a curious marriage of traditional craft, rural designs and modern media and techniques. Her works have the vibrancy and sheer innocence associated with the folk art. Warli paintings’ simplicity - to take an example - blends with the meticulous thread work of embroidery and fuses with the pigment, beads, sequences etc. to stand out on its own.

Each work does exhibit the passionate involvement of the artists in the making of the same. Carla’s transformation of the innocuous, mundane lamps into a work of art and Shamoli’s efforts in elevating the obvious into something artistry deserves commendation.