Monday, October 19, 2015

Poetry & Collage @ Merzbarn - Uk ( 27 September - 15 October - 2015)

 




Charlie Holt has curated a collaborative show at the Merzbarn ...Ambleside in the Lake District ...it was the last studio where German artist Kurt Schwitters worked...the Merzbarn is now owned by the Littoral trust who are trying to keep the legacy of Scwitters alive......he was one the most important and influential artists of the 20 th century...producing collages ..writing poetry and plays .....Charlie Holt has brought together two Keralan poets Kavitha Balakrishnan and Kuzhur Wilson.

Kavitha is presenting a series of illustrated poems and a recently published set of poems by Cycle Press in the form of a slightly oversized matchbox.
Kuzhur is showing a collaborative project with Charlie Holt .....Kuzhurs text with digital collages by Charlie.
We also have a recording of Kuzhur reading poetry in Malayalam....to create a sound collage at the event.
Charlie Holt is exhibiting a series of collages on canvas that are based on the surrealist notion of random and chance.He is also showing some small irregular collages on posters from the streets that have random text from books stuck to them ....they tell an unusual story.
The show also includes photos and text from the recent Trikana Festival.....a real link between art in a village in India and art in the countryside in the UK...art in the margins.
Charlie says he likes the idea of bringing cultures together to explore ideas.....this collaboration he feels is just the start and could be one of many.

Kuzhur Wilson

Born in 1975, Kerala, India, Kuzhur Wilson is one of the major voices of the new generation Malayalam poetry. His is the voice of dissent and the break off point from the generation that preceded the present. Wilson’s first book of poems was published at a young age of 24. A very prolific writer, he is active in poetry from 1990 till now. To him goes the credit of launching the first blog for Malayalam poetry.
'Kuzhur Vilsonte Kavithakal", his first collection by DC Books in 2012, got wide recognition. India Today selected it as one of the 10 best books in 2012. He has since published 5 volumes of poetry and a collection of essays. He is the recipient of N.M Viyyoth Smaraka Kavitha puraskaram and Arabian Sahithya puraskaram. He has visited 7 countries with his performing poetree. His poems have been translated into English, Arabic and Tamil. Thinthatoo is his first collection of translated poems. Now he is working for Temple Of Poetry, Varkala, India
www.kuzhur.com
0091 – 97 44 315 990
kuzhoor@gmail.com

Kavitha Balakrishnan
Dr. Kavitha Balakrishnan's artworks, her bilingual poetry and writings on art. Winning Soviet Land Nehru Award for painting (in 1989) she proved her talents as a painter right in the early teens. As an artist she is self-taught. But pursuing an MFA in Art History (M S University Baroda) in 1998 and later working as a lecturer in Art History (Govt. College of Fine Arts, Kerala, a premier institution of art education now celebrating its centenary in Kerala) her daily life is very much gathered around a shared environment of learning and teaching art.Poetry occured allthroughout and major weeklies publish them. She has two collections of poems. Since 2000, She has been researching on the practice of literature-oriented illustrations in Malayalam Periodicals. Produced a thesis for which a doctorate is recently awarded by Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam Kerala in 2009. She regularly writes on Indian contemporary art in general, and in particular responding to the immediate and intimate environment of contemporary art in Kerala......
Her most recent publication of poetry is by Cycle Press...poems in a matchbox.
Kavitha is the director of the Trikana festival
Email: balakrishnan.kavitha@gmail.com
Mobile: 09995197729

Charlie Holt
Charlie Holt is an English artist .....he was the Head of Fine Art at Liverpool Hope university College ....he has exhibited widely in the UK and Europe most recently in Fort Kochi at Kochi Books .....Kavitha Balakrishnan invited him to participate in the Trikana Festival with a series of digital collages....

Info on the Merzbarn UK
http://www.merzbarn.net


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