11/25/2023 0 Comments Precious moments love drawings![]() See here, Kumkum Fernando, revisiting his own precious moments, holding our hand on the way.Ĭan you talk about what you collect, and as the son of an antique and curiosities collector, what purpose do you think small and random items serve throughout our lives? Do you think the urge to collect is innate with being human? Then I thought I should make figures with these patterns." One day, I was arranging objects, and they appeared to form a figure. I made a series of works completely out of window grills, another series from patterns from Persian rugs, and another from temple patterns. When I put them together, I often see unexpected things. “I have a library that I go through at different points in time. “Whenever I travel, I collect and document,” says Kumkum. ![]() His creative process begins by collecting objects, patterns, and items with different iconography that evolve into reinventing these materials as contemporary objects. Each figure has its own poetic story written by the artist entitled “The Flying ilo,” about his son Kai-ilo, “Lotus one,” and “The empress of the garden,” and in the evenings are illuminated by spotlights. Arranged in a row to create a colorful gathering space, Kumkum calls the 65 to 80-foot-tall monolithic figures his “idols” and pulls inspiration from the colors and architecture of South Asian art as well as the folk tales of gods and demons from his youth to execute his artistic vision. Because isn't that what our being consists of–the intimacies and intricacies of experience that lingers in every aspect of who we are.Īt this year's Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, Kumkum introduced one of his physically largest works, The Messengers which comprises of three towering entities that at first appear to be giant robots. Instead, artist Kumkum Fernando doesn’t measure life with something as insignificant as time, but rather with the many memories, dreams, and moments he collects. Maybe our concept of time is a trivial way for us to grasp at otherworldly powers we were never meant to have. Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival 2023 installation view of Kumkum Fernando, The Messengers, photo by Lance Gerber, courtesy Coachella
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