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23rd Dec '24
28th Feb '25
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Kara, Parade Ground, Fort Kochi
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Gayatri Gamuz
&
Supriya Menon Meneghetti
A
moment of
stillness can
reveal the clarity
of a thousand
thoughts.
Gayatri Gamuz and Supriya Menon Meneghetti's artworks feature the common thread of being influenced by nature, balance and the understanding that a moment of stillness can reveal the clarity of a thousand thoughts. There is an emphasis on the act of creation itself, which allows for interpretation and invites the viewer to experience the work in a deeply personal way.

Gayatri’s paintings blend bold, spontaneous brushstrokes and negative space, much like Zen calligraphy, emphasizing the silence and meditative aspect of the brushstroke with abstract sweeping curves and a direct involvement with the medium and its natural flow. Her artwork seeks to create a dialogue between form and formlessness, between the artist's mind and the viewer's perception. She paints with a patience of an artisan, a silence of a tree, a love of a mother and the calmness of the mountain.

Supriya’s sculptures deeply resonate with creation and destruction. Working with intuition and personal experiences, she explores the relationship between nature and the self. The "creation" works are crafted from a mold of her pregnant belly, from which various forms emerge. Using clay slabs, the walls grow and finally develop into enclosed forms of life — creating a sacred space, a sacred void.

The "destruction" works draw inspiration from a threefold weapon — a spear, dagger, and axe — housed in the Pondicherry Museum. These forms, both independent and interconnected with memories of her childhood growing up in a military family, are the tools of nonjudgmental nature. Here we ponder our present state of war, a thought we constantly live with.

Through these contrasting bodies of work — creation and destruction, emptiness and fullness, peace and conflict — Supriya evokes the balance between opposing forces.

In summary, both Gayatri’s and Supriya’s lifestyles and, hence, their artwork honor the natural world, encourage mindfulness and reflection, and the search for harmony and balance between the self and the larger universe.
Gayatri Gamuz
Gayatri Gamuz was born in Spain in 1966. In 1989, while still an art student, she travelled for the first time to India.

In 1992 she started to live and work in India. In the first years she travelled widely and stayed for periods in different places like Dharamshala, Varanasi, Vrindavan, Pushkar and Coorg.

In Kerala, together with her husband, Kochi-born writer at Ananda Surya, she was in the forefront of the art and cultural movement from the 90s, a period when contemporary visual art flourished and Kochi started gaining a place on the art map of the world. She played a key role and took part in the vibrant social and cultural discourse of Kerala; Mayalokam art collective, Kashi Art Cafe, the five annual Tree Festivals and in Encounter, 1st contemporary art festival in Kochi.

In 2008 she moved to Thiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu, and started to live in her organic farm together with Ananda and their two sons. The new synergy she encountered in a more reclusive life close to nature at the foot of the sacred mountain of Arunachala created a pronounced shift in her work. In 2017 her art transited from the figurative to the abstract spaceof silence.
Ink on Archival Paper / 59 cm x 57 cm
Ink on Archival Paper / 114 cm x 89 cm
Watercolour on Archival Paper / 28 cm x 22 cm
Ink on Archival Paper / 114 cm x 89 cm
Watercolour on Archival Paper / 54 cm x 38 cm
Watercolour on Archival Paper / 28 cm x 18 cm
Ink on Archival Paper / 27 cm x 17 cm
Watercolour on Archival Paper / 28 cm x 18 cm
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Supriya Menon Meneghetti
Supriya Menon Meneghetti is a multidisciplinary artist based in Auroville. She has been in the field of ceramics for the last 30 years: as a student at the Golden Bridge Pottery in Pondicherry, an independent artist, a teacher, and a curator of multiple exhibitions in India and abroad. Since 1994, she has worked with various artists globally, developing a deepened skill set while experimenting with new styles in order to create her own unique pieces.

Her work is personal to her life and experiences, deeply intertwined with femininity and nature. This interplay reflects her life as a woman and the spaces in which she creates her art.

Through the years she has also studied the Japanese art of flower arrangement, Ikebana. This too has been incorporated into her styles and art.

Today, Supriya heads the ceramic studio at Maroma in Auroville, as well as curating and taking part in exhibitions in India and abroad.
Her Tools: Gopuram / Stoneware / 84 cm H x 44 cm W x 21 cm
Her Tools: White Spear/ Stoneware / 84 cm H x 45 cm W x 21 cm
Her Tools: Axe of Light / Stoneware / 60 cm H x 45 cm W x 18 cm
Her Tools: Axe with Flowers / Stoneware / 51 cm H x 34 cm W x 8 cm
Study in Black / Stoneware / 45cm H x 45cm W x 10cm
Largeness / Stoneware / 35 cm H x 40 cm
Trinity / Stoneware / 36cm H x 21cm D + 35cm H x 21cm D + 35cm H x 21cm
Womb 1 / Buncheong Stoneware with Gold / 26 cm H x 23 cm W x 12 cm
Womb 2 / Buncheong Stoneware with Gold / 26 cm H x 23 cm W x 12 cm
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Art at Kara. Art and history are cozy comrades within the walls of Fort Kochi. Step into Kara, our contemporary art gallery that is part colonial, part new - age expressions.

Kara is more than just an art gallery. It is housed within an 8-room hotel that can be best described as an art hotel. The former headquarters of the Dutch East India Company, the art deco heritage wing is filled with iconic work by modern masters. And the modern, minimalist wing where the gallery resides,has artworks by renowned contemporary artists from Kerala.

Connoisseurs of art can begin at the gallery and stroll through the café, common spaces and living areas of Kara to discover their favourites. Each room also comes with a masterpiece.

Come visit our gallery to see and buy art, or stay at our hotel to spend more time with our masterpieces.
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