“” Tradition and modernity I “, Tara Shakti’s painting is currently at the exhibition” Hybrid Identities » At Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello in Italy. The Malagasy, a graduate as a “consultant specialist in the art market” at the Drouot Paris school, in France, composes through this painting the Malagasy social and cultural dynamics.
The meeting of light, of an almost spiritual movement, and the face brings a harsh humanism to the painting ” Tradition and modernity I ». For the event ” Hybrid Identities “, This work by Tara Shakti was selected to be exhibited at the Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello, Venice in Italy from May 23 until June 6. On the other hand, the Malagasy painter to better bring back these women or the man whom she “stages” in a kind of presence in a quiet force, she makes little use of perspectives. Key to renewal. To undoubtedly not let the eye escape, the ” leakage point Ideological and idealized of his paintings therefore remains human.
In “ Tradition and modernity! “, The latter is a umbrella male, in a tie with vertical stripes, draped with a typical fabric of the Malagasy” peasants “in winter or in the evening. Raising fears of yet another folklorization ” woke », The habit acquired in certain contemporary designers and artists in Tananarivo in this case. Shortcut of laziness, present the tradition to the altar of modernity ” capitalist Looks down to reduce cultural features and identity symbols with an almost simplifier look. A work, however, complex, even if it seems reductive. But with Tara Shakti, simplicity takes over.
The man with the umbrella takes shape on a background with a “red/green” complementary color game, spotted with white, the Italian school of the first Renaissance. Flowers in profusion, oppressive, powerful and majestic. It goes without saying that nature has an important place in the artist’s works. Malagasy fauna and flora in this case. Tightness between the old and the new world therefore, in the memory of Van Gogh and his all black tree in the ” Starry », The balance of balance with the umbrella. And finally, this nature headed by its permanence, difficult to ignore to see its anchoring in the imagination of Tara Shakti.
This mastered profusion, hence a limpidity in nuances, forms, composition … reassures. Lack of a balance of balance on a stiff rope where only great masters like Raparivo or Andrianavoravelona dare to venture. From leaving or double. “” Through this canvas, Tara Shakti invites the spectator to reflect on how traditions can flourish and transform into the modern world, while preserving their essence. This dialogue between past and present, between cultural anchoring and innovation … », Encomes the press release from the exhibition” Hybrid Identities ».
Maminirina Rado
