Kathmandu:

If sculptor Gopal Kalakarmi’s statues, what he calls ‘formless forms’, signify time in some way, Metamorphosis a collective exhibition of sculptures and paintings that began at Siddhartha Art Gallery on January13, has detailed the supremacy of time.

Now and Then, Historical Pain Still Lives in the Future, Here and Gone — paintings by Saroj Bajracharya unmistakably speak of time. His square forms symbolises time and the figures confined within these squares depicts the plight of human being.

“We often react to the situation one lives in and such situations are the creation of time and space,” says Bajracharya. His works on acrylic and mixed media are symbolic expression of truth of existence.

One can draw many meanings from the statutes and porcelain works of different shapes and (human) facial distortions. Sculptor Gopal Kalapremi believes naming the shapes and figures is restricting the meaning of the forms. “If I have to tell you the meaning of these figures, I have to concoct a reference story to back it up. These figures are just the creation of my mind,” Kalapremi says.

The original shapes and figure have been executed in exquisite composition with elegance.

Pokhareli Sunil Sigdel’s paintings have been another attraction at the exhibition. Female figures, outlined skeleton have occupied all his canvases. The artist has been able to reveal intrinsic human characteristics through deformed female figures. He consistently relates them with time. Use of vibrant colours has made the paintings more impressive.

(The exhibition is on till January 31)