Yolanda de Sousa Kammermeier
YYolanda - cyclic ceramic
canvasses
Prof. Les Menezes,
Faculty Canberra University, Australia
Yolanda opens her heart in her paintings
and achieves a cathartic release of some pain pent up, deeply buried in
dark sunless measureless underground caves of her psyche. Her shafts of
perception emerge at white heat but do not pour out on her canvasses as
volcanic lava but rather burst out like rocks and boulders, panting, heaving
thrown up momently through cracks. She is possessed, consumed but the
total vision only takes shape when these intense fragments fit together
like pieces in a jigsaw on the canvass. Working at speed to transfer the
inspiration into the complex structure that captures the compelling inspiration,
she bypasses the basic steps of designing in miniature or laying down
a preliminary sketch or outline from which the larger work emerges. She
achieves sublime levels of artistic unconsciousness.
She goes to the heart of her creativity by outpouring her intense feelings
in one long burst of feverish expression sometimes on paper in watercolour
if the right materials are not available but usually on canvass. The inspiration
determines the size and shape of the work. Each work is finished when
it finds expression.
The content is never repeated.
Joy is significantly absent but in some paintings she preserves moments of the past, a world gone by and lost, wrapped lovingly with images of nostalgia. The pain is turned into joy through someone else's appreciation, involvement, sharing in the contrapuntal asymmetry. The ridges, valleys, textures of her surfaces project the deep-seated feeling and the creative process. The dominant monochrome colour captures the emotional consciousness and injects a central tonality. The ceramic glazed face "fixes" in time the deep seated inspiration flung up momently. The fire and ice bring about a release and the creative bursts plunge into lifelessness, stillness, a peace till the next outpouring. Her "fragments" burn like meteors so that the inspiration can see the light of day. Her satisfaction is seeing others interpreting and climbing into the unresolved emotion and finding answers and correspondences. There has to be a total burnout for complete release because her creativity is a cyclic process.
Born and brought up in Goa ,A Portuguese Territory until its liberation in 1961,Yolanda de Sousa Kammermeier holds a B.F.A.(painting) Degree from The University of Bombay.Yolanda's style of creating a ceramic like effect on canvas with relief and high gloss has become her trade mark She enjoys working with watercolours too .She selects her medium as per the feeling of the subject Her works are in collections in India and abroad.
- SOLO SHOWS:
2010 - Mundial 2010 Kala Academy- panaji
Small Format- water colours Indian Art Collectors - Online show
2009 - Destined Destiny Galerie Gora -Montreal,Canada
Apathy Galeria de Belas Artes
2007 - Recent works Castelo Vermelho, Goa
2006 - Yolanda 2006 Right Lines Bangalore
Recent works Kitab Mahal- Mumbai
2005 - Faces and Phases Castelo Vermelho, Goa
Yesterday Chirtrakala Parishad -Bangalore
2003 - Saudades Galeria Cidade, Goa
Korea FIFA W.C Art Chamber
2002 - World Cup Diary Art Chamber, Goa
1998 - Bayern im Februar Art Chamber, Goa
GROUP SHOWS
2010
Simply Watercolours Art Chamber-Galeria de Belas Artes
Carnival of Colours Ruchikas Art Gallery Goa
2009
Carnival of Colours Ruchikas Art Gallery Goa
2008
Biannale de Venizia Galleria d'arte Terzo Millenio ,Venice Italy
Carnival of Colours Ruchikas Art Gallery Goa
Celebration Right lines Bangalore
Group show Kynkyny Art Bangalore
Vernissage Kynkyny Art Gallery ,Bangalore
Different Strokes Mahua Art Gallery-Show at Delhi
Basha-Literature Gallerie Nvya -N.Delhi
Miniature Format Show Sanstache Art Gallery, Mumbai
Indian Surrealism Aakritti Art Gallery, Kolkata
2007
Mapping the Roots Portuguese Embassy Delhi & EU Cultural
Vismaya Mahua Art Gallery, Bangalore
Triptych Mahua Art Gallery, Bangalore
Roots & Shoots Corks Gallery, London
Aparantha G.T.D.C, Govt of Go a Centre
Contemporary Indian Art Kalahita Art Gallery Hyderbad
2006
Pedro no Coracao Art Chamber, Goa
48th National Exh. of Art Lalit Kala Akademi , New Delhi
2005
Portugal through the Eyes of Goans Portuguese Consulate, Goa
Festival of visual Art and Theatre Fundacao Oriente, Goa
2004:
Mind of a Women Art Chamber, Goa
Women on Women International Festival of Art Bangalore .
Women Artists on Amrita Sher Gil Moskow and at Tashkent
Women by Women ICCR Delhi
2003:
Daniel Pearl Memorial Festival Panjim, Goa
2002:
Women of Goa Art Chamber, Goa
2001:
International Exhibition of Art , - Korea
Contemporary Artists Lalit Kala Akademy, Delhi-kala academy Goa
Goa Art Regent Gallery-Mumbai
1997:
Contemporary Goan Artists Art Chamber- Galeria de Belas Artes-Goa
Camps
2006: Artists Camp organized by Samanvai
Art Gallery Jaipur
2007: Artists Camp organize by GTDC Govt.of Goa
2008: Artists Camp organized by Ruchikas Art Gallery Goa
2010: Artists Camp organized by Ravindra Bhavan Centre for Art
and Culture Govt.of Goa
2010: Artists Camp organized by Lalit Kala Academy Regional Centre
Chennai
UPCOMING SHOWS:
Nov.2010 HanseArt Fair 2010 in Breman Germany
Nov/Dec………..Jouney Beyond Time..Solo …..Wedding Art
Galery,Berlin
Dec.2010 ………Artists at Home and Abroad… Broadway
Art Gallery. New York
