Live show by Laxman Aelay

To mark the reopening of Link Cafe at Sheraton Hyderabad, artist Laxman Aelay is invited to do a live show on October 25. Laxman Aelay is known for his contemporary depictions of the rural Telangana imagery. Like many other artists, he too started his artistic journey as a sign board artist and illustrator before coming to the mainstream art. Laxman’s vibrant quasi-realistic paintings and arduously drawn imagery evoke a sense of apprehension and nostalgia. His men and women in typical Telangana attire proclaim their cultural identity. The representation of Telangana life in all its vitality and vigour become his personal visual idiom even in his recent one-man show, ‘Fellow Travellers’. ‘Fellow Travellers’ demonstrate highly skilful renditions of portraits layered with imagery taken from folk arts of Nakashi, Kalamkari, Paithan and others. These larger than life size hyper realistic images of street performers, itinerant bards and tantalising common people are built and rebuilt over multiple layers of motifs that burst from his subconscious memory revealing predicaments of oppressed communities.

His show will be at Sheraton today at 7pm.