Exhibition Of Contemporary Art At ABN Amro

 After a short interval, the art activity in Hyderabad is gradually brightening 
  up for the season. And this time around it's the corporate houses that are playing 
  host to art and the artists. After the impressive art camp and exhibition sponsored 
  by Dr. Reddy's Laboratories, it is now the new bank in town that's doing it 
  - the ABN-Amro Bank on Road No. 1, Banjara Hills.

  

  Although the plush reception area of the bank is an ideal showcase for the 5 
  participating artists, the display of works was a bit misplaced on the crowded 
  opening day on July 7. Inaugurated by Padmasri Jagdish Mittal, the show highlighted 
  a freshness of style and treatment.

  

  Srinivasa Chary and Sajid Bin Amar especially exhibited singularity in expression 
  and artistic process. Srinivasa Chary's works can be interpreted as instances 
  pertaining to the artist's personal experiences - his transcendence from the 
  material to the spiritual, attempting to maintain a balance between the elusive 
  reality and the abstract reality.

  

  His small portrait frames magnify his technical abilities to exploit his artistic 
  conceptions. In fact, his workmanship unfolds a duality; primarily a painting, 
  there is a concentrated treatment, a brilliance in application which generally 
  goes into frescos on walls. Such a result is due to his layers of egg-tempera.

  

  The most progressive among the group of five here is Sajid Bin Amar. His works 
  exhibit a passion - a passion for collecting and keenly studying the visual 
  pleasures in all sorts of designs available - glossy print adverts, design drafts 
  and packaging material - to reinvent a text and texture dormant in his collection 
  of media. His pleasure exudes in the sheer textural variations that he installs 
  upon his mount board which contest his insatiable appetite for living in the 
  'present' with a link with the past and a hope for a future.

  

  The only abstractionist in Hyderabad, L N V Srinivas, exhibited frames that 
  indicate his base in semi-figurative and pure abstraction. A meditative painter, 
  Srinivas is forever attempting to emancipate the artist in him from the existing 
  clich