Ever seen the deep blue sky through a 10-inch pipe? If you haven’t, visit the Vaishwik Art Environment exhibition in Aundh and allow artist Hetal Shukla to show you his pipe dream. An interior designer by training, the 30-year-old Mumbaikar is using a combination of 56 feet of PVC pipe, 40 digital images, one smoke machine and a 4-minute film to bring you face to face with the wide blue sky, without your having to step out in the open. Hetal has christened his exhibition the Sky Project. One end of the long pipe juts out of the window on the first floor of the art centre. The other end is firmly anchored on the ground floor. Hetal has placed seven mirrors, each at an angle of 45 degrees, in the seven joints of the pipe. Using the principle of the periscope, the first mirror captures an image of the sky and relays it via the multiple mirrors to the first mirror. However, Hetal’s art exhibition is not just about the pipe. It begins with a smoke room, where a smoke machine has been placed to create the feeling of a walk in the clouds! When you feel sufficiently light, you begin admiring 40-odd images of the blue sky that have been captured on glass prints. These are suspended artistically on the walls of the centre. Later, you take a peep into the pipe and see the sky. A walk up the staircase, along the complete length of the pipe, takes you to the first floor, where a 4-minute film on the magic of smoke is being played for visitors. The idea of depicting a piece of sky through a pipe struck Hetal when a total of three tall skyscrapers completely blanked out his view of the sky from his first floor apartment in congested Mumbai. “As a Mumbaikar, I thirst for a glimpse of the clear, blue sky and that is how the idea for this art exhibition was born,” admits Hetal. Scientist Arvind Gupta from the Children’s Science Centre at the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) says, “The use of pipes by Hetal is indeed a very innovative idea. It is a very strong medium and can be reused very easily.” The Sky project is open between 10.30 am and 7 pm every day till March 17 at the Vaishwik Art Environment, Aundh.
Artist Hetal Shukla prepares his ‘Sky Project’ exhibition
By Rahul Chandawarkar 12/3/2006 Times of India Pune
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An Eye In The Sky!
Ever seen the deep blue sky through a 10-inch pipe? If you haven’t, visit the Vaishwik Art Environment exhibition in Aundh and allow artist Hetal Shukla to show you his pipe dream. An interior designer by training, the 30-year-old Mumbaikar is using a combination of 56 feet of PVC pipe, 40 digital images, one smoke machine and a 4-minute film to bring you face to face with the wide blue sky, without your having to step out in the open. Hetal has christened his exhibition the Sky Project. One end of the long pipe juts out of the window on the first floor of the art centre. The other end is firmly anchored on the ground floor. Hetal has placed seven mirrors, each at an angle of 45 degrees, in the seven joints of the pipe. Using the principle of the periscope, the first mirror captures an image of the sky and relays it via the multiple mirrors to the first mirror. However, Hetal’s art exhibition is not just about the pipe. It begins with a smoke room, where a smoke machine has been placed to create the feeling of a walk in the clouds! When you feel sufficiently light, you begin admiring 40-odd images of the blue sky that have been captured on glass prints. These are suspended artistically on the walls of the centre. Later, you take a peep into the pipe and see the sky. A walk up the staircase, along the complete length of the pipe, takes you to the first floor, where a 4-minute film on the magic of smoke is being played for visitors. The idea of depicting a piece of sky through a pipe struck Hetal when a total of three tall skyscrapers completely blanked out his view of the sky from his first floor apartment in congested Mumbai. “As a Mumbaikar, I thirst for a glimpse of the clear, blue sky and that is how the idea for this art exhibition was born,” admits Hetal. Scientist Arvind Gupta from the Children’s Science Centre at the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) says, “The use of pipes by Hetal is indeed a very innovative idea. It is a very strong medium and can be reused very easily.” The Sky project is open between 10.30 am and 7 pm every day till March 17 at the Vaishwik Art Environment, Aundh.
Artist Hetal Shukla prepares his ‘Sky Project’ exhibition
By Rahul Chandawarkar 12/3/2006 Times of India Pune
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