Heart on Art | About Us PRESS RELEASE AGATHE SOREL Rang – Colours of India Nehru Centre Mayfair , London 10 to 20 March 2009 HeartonART, The Art Expo India and the Nehru Centre are delighted to announce an exciting exhibition of watercolours, by London based artist Agathe Sorel from the 10 to 20 March 2009 with an exclusive opening on the 10 th March 2009. This exhibition presents a collection of watercolours inspired by Agathe's trip to India two years ago when she participated in an Art camp organized by The Arts Trust ,which brought together established artists from India and the Royal Water Colour Society. Vickram Sethi , founder of The Arts Trust comments: “The combination of tradition and modernism sets the tone of Agathe's works which is evident in her Indian landscapes …in her sculptures she creates a symbolic language that is her own…She summons the viewer to wander into her pictures and the viewer helplessly surrenders to her diktat's”. Mel Gooding , art critic, writer and curator of this exhibition writes: “With these mixed-media watercolour paintings of Indian scenes, Agathe Sorel breaks new ground once more in a long career that has always been marked by experiment and diversity in many media… An idiosyncratic modernist sensibility has engaged, to startling effect, with a vital culture in its present place and time…we are presented with a vividly personal; celebration of certain Indian realities”. Of the work presented in this exhibition Agathe Sorel says, “My experience in India was a thrill. There was so much to be inspired by. I worked on many sketch watercolours directly from the motif, but I feel that it is in the large watercolours painted in my studio, that I have managed to achieve a sense of the transparency of line engravings on three dimensional form, combined with the brilliant colour of the landscapes and figures”. About Agathe Sorel: Agathe escaped from Hungary after the failure of the 1956 anti-Soviet revolution and came to England . In 1956 she enrolled at the Camberwell School of Art and later won the Gulbenkian scholarship to study with S.W. Hayter at the Atelier 17 in Paris . This world famous engraver worked with artists from both the surrealist and abstract expressionist groups including Marc Chagall, Max Ernst, Alberto Giacometti, Juan Miro and Jackson Pollock. Agathe Sorel's experience at the Atelier 17 has influenced her entire career and in 1966-67 she was awarded a Churchill fellowship to work in the United States and Mexico . There she became interested in the possibilities of working with transparent materials like Perspex, combining the properties of line engraving with three dimensional form, following experiments of Naum Gabo and Lászlo Moholy-Nagy. The artist's work is represented in 43 museums and public collections worldwide including the Tate Gallery and the British Museum Full details can be found at www.heartonart.com or contact Priyanka Sethi, priyanka@hearonart.com , Tel: 077 6523 7290 Heart on Art

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