Video: Colonial-style carved wooden skateboards at the Final Cut exhibition
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
In late March - early April, the Final Cut exhibition was held in the Indian city of Mumbai, where amazing carvings from local craftsmen were presented, who in collaboration with a German artist Tobias Megerle created a series unique skateboards, made in a traditional colonial style. As they say, a matter of chance: Tobias Megerle, visiting Mumbai, became interested in the work of the local woodcarvers, who decorated the backs of beds and chairs, cabinet doors, frames for mirrors and paintings and other wooden trifles with traditional patterns. And so they would have remained unknown Indian carpenters, if not for the creative thinking of the German artist, who, having become acquainted with the technique of the traditional Indian technique of wood carving, decided to use it in more modern and popular products.
So these very products became the skateboards presented at the exhibition. Indian craftsmen carve them from solid pieces of wood, carefully working out every curl, every ring of ancient ornament, turning a faceless board into an art object, a real work of art.
Surely carved boards from Indian carvers will appeal to those people who believe that art should be not only beautiful, but also useful. And the people who visited the Final Cut exhibition were able to see this with their own eyes.
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