Autodidact since1970. It was after my first journey to Auroville in 1973, in a quest for the future, that inspiration emerged freely. I returned to France and despite all the social and familial difficulties, the decision to paint daily imposed itself. After experimenting with different materials and mediums in an original and non-academic way, I […]
I have this passion to create images… again and again… Video, 3D, collage, painting, photography, I like exploring all the possibilities of expression. My latest discovery: macrophotography. These macrophotographs have been taken in a little evergreen forest near the Bay of Bengal in South India called Auroville. Thanks to an amazing macro lens, the Canon […]
I am Italian. I expressed myself as an expressionist painter and explored painting from the mid-sixties to the mid-eighties. Since then I turned to ceramic sculpture, I try to express the plasticity of faces and dynamic movement of bodies. contact:e-mail: kratu2007 [at] gmail.comlandline: 2622336,cell phone: 9443045386 work:
I usually season wood 2 to 3 years. After that I plane the surface of the plank. This is the moment I can see the face of the tree. Then we = the wood and myself = decide what the wood wants to become…. When I work, I feel calm and so much joy comes […]
Starting painting young, Jyoti kept on nurturing herself over years relying on her inner guide. Only when people started calling her an artist did she realize how much space art had already taken in her life. She still sees it as a passion that helps her to relax, enjoy and go deeper within herself. contact:e-mail: […]
Having been involved in the world of art and painting goes back to a time before I decided to come and live in Auroville in 1973. My involvement with painting in Auroville is relatively recent, developing and changing rapidly. Presently I am mainly working on abstract works, which I find quite fascinating and spiritually inspiring. […]
I have lived in Auroville since 1969, and wrote the only non fiction novel about the beginning of Auroville, Antithesis of Yoga. In 1998 I began working with master Ganessan from Thanjavur and other artists here at Janaka House Ravena on a research in spiritual art using traditional Thanjavur techniques and materials and acrylics, and […]
Hufreesh Dumasia is an intuitive abstract artist. She has been painting ever since she was old enough to hold a brush. To become an artist wasn’t a conscious choice, but a natural expression of her being. Growing up in Sri Aurobindo Centre of International education in South of India and then later joining the Universal […]
Depth and lightness, density and humor reveal themselves in Emanuele’s work through the «brush engravings on stone» created in the privacy of his atelier – a meeting with the stone and its telling features; and the illustrations of «Papui and Something Else», created in lively India. contact:address: Sukhavati, Aurovillephone : (91) 413 2623407e-mail: lele [at] auroville.org.in […]
Edoardo Grassi’s fundamental focus is on documentary, travel and portraiture photography. Over the years, he grew fond of National Geographic images which encouraged him to learn basics of photography. Photojournalism and documentary taught him about hidden charms of light and bluntness of reality. Truth and beauty are his goals. contact:e-mail: eddie.grassi [at] gmail.comaddress: Citadyn, Auroville […]
Bachelor in Fine Arts. Painting and engraving specialties. Currently writing her doctoral thesis on Indian aesthetics and contemporary art, on the way to understand the deepest significance of the aesthetic experience and the place of Art and Beauty in current life. contact:e-mail: claramsev [at] gmail.comtel: +91 9843183057 (India) +34 649503042 (Spain) work:
I AM ART, Being Myself. Knowing the fact WASTE IS ONLY GOLD and ONLY GOD HIMSELF, Year 2,000 recycling at Celestial Art and Cultural Research Center, Prarthana, Auroville, resulted as Art Installation at various places within Auroville. Year 2011, not and not need wanting to be a mere ARTIST (art outside myself), rebelled as I AM […]
Charudatta Ram Prabhudesai is from Goa. He has a MFA from the MS University, Baroda. He has participated in many group shows and three one man shows. Charudatta also does caricatures. He is a theater actor. He has acted in many plays in India and since moving to Auroville, he has acted is many Auroville […]
Christoph studied media technology engineering and worked in video and film postproduction in Hamburg and Berlin before moving to Auroville in 2008. He established brainfever media productions in Auroville in 2011, realized various video and multimedia art projects and worked as Technical Director for the Auroville Film Festival 2011 – 2017. He is passionate about […]
French painter and director of TV movies and experimental cinema, Basil has lived and worked in Auroville for the past thirteen years, traveling and filming. He has produced documentaries such as: – Auroville Towards a Sustainable Future– Sur les Traces d’Hanuman– Retour à Pondy– Made in India– Bénares Saree Factory– Tributs du Kutch … and many other […]
After painting professionally for years, now my work has become an exploration into what illuminates my spiritual path. I am constantly surprised by the space, images and colors that want to appear. After several years of paying no attention to a consistency of image, meaning just letting what comes come, now, in the latter part […]
Ange Peter came to India with her parents when she was two years old. She grew up in Auroville and completed her studies at the Sri Aurobindo’s International Center of Education in Pondicherry. Her first teachers in pottery were Ray Meeker and Deborah Smith from the Golden Bridge Pottery, Pondicherry. Since then she has extensively […]
