The Seeing Eyes and colourful thoughts
Hallegua Hall-Palette People Gallery & Artists’ Studio in Mattancherry (Kochi) is a world of colors waiting to be explored. The show, ‘The Seeing Eyes’, presented by students from The Velammal International School (TVIS), Chennai, provides a unique visual experience, including decorative woodcuts, mono prints, rope knots, black Kirigami works, terracotta works, watercolor paintings, and above all the photographic representations of Raja Ravi Varma’s paintings. What sets this exhibition apart is the way it connects with art education and appreciation, encouraging students to think outside the box. An interesting segment of this exhibition is ‘Re-create/Re-Visit a work of Raja Ravi Varma - a modern Indian master painter’, in which they took their photographs in the costumes of the characters in the Ravi Varma paintings. This session was done while the lockdown period was on in the wake of COVID-19 and the students were lonely at home, and this aimed to rejuvenate their creative spiri