Sam Kulavoor's A Man of the Crowd
at TARQ Gallery.
He has people in the city caught mid action across time and place put together in one place, a large plaza. We are familiar with images of large plazas in cities of Europe, Vatican?
But it left me wondering, are there places like this in Mumbai.
The only large rectangular space I can recollect is in front of Vashi station and another in CBD Belapur.
Kulavoor reminded me of the work of a Simon Roberts, a British photographer who has a good collection of photographs of people in his country that is looking inwards and into the past - white Britain. he in turn was impressed by classic paintings from Northern Europe that see the world from this distance and height. Check out his Urban Parks (opens in new window), We English.
What struck me in Kulavoor's painting is the colour of the skin of the people; brown.
This is our colour. Our people.
