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Online edition of India's National Newspaper
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Metro Plus Chennai
Virtual canvases
| Eight-year-old Varuna showcases her digital art works |
“Her works say a lot of things. It’s a whole new philosophy”. After asking S.Varuna about her influences, cinematographer P. C. Sreeram acknowledged that he has learnt a lot from the eight-year-old.
He inaugurated Varuna’s ninth exhibition (incidentally, on National Technology Day, May 11) “Tiny Pixel” at the Adyar Boat Club. Varuna showcased her skill in digital art as mediapersons and personalities from the film industry watched.
The young artist has used the techniques she applies in manual arts in these digital works.
Ask her about her works ‘Swimming butterfly’ or ‘House in the sky’ and she replies that “artists are dreamers. Everything that is impossible, we will make possible.”
She grew up with her father’s paintings and then committed herself artistically and even socially, to spread the message of peace.
CELINE LEMAIRE
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Published in Chennai Times, Times Now on 18th May, 2009
Published in Indian Express on 14th May, 2009
Eight-and-a-half year old Varuna’s exhibition is a series of digital art pieces by the young artist SHE began at the age of two and a half and is now 8 exhibitions and 8 and a half years old; Varuna clearly has it in her genes. With an artist for a father and an encouraging mother, it is not so much surprise that the kid’s artistic streak has been honed and directed at a stage so early. Tiny Pixels, her latest solo exhibition was inaugurated at Boat Club on Monday by cinematographer P C Shriram.
The exhibition was a series of digital art pieces by the young artist. Also on display were the artists’ tools, a Mac, a graphics tablet and the Coral Paint software. Varuna took her seat and demonstrated the tools and let out the secrets of her trade. “She began painting early in her father’s studio and ever since we realised she needed the encouragement. She paints both manually and digitally”, says Kamala, Varuna’s mother.
“She also wants to try other technologies for the purpose of art”, she adds. The work is imaginative and to say the least, representative of a child’s world, where no real boundaries are kept to, where everything can be given wings and dreams don’t see a stop. There are also pieces with mosaic work and a few sketches using simple strokes like a Ganesha.
Varuna herself seemed quite delighted and proud of the collection she held for the display. Art it appears is close to her heart. “I paint whatever I am thinking. I usually spend at least an hour painting everyday”, she tells us. Sridhar, her father, himself says, “I have taught her the basic techniques, but I leave the rest to her and her imagination”.