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Artist, sculptor, potter and academician, Yeoh Jin Leng returns to NN Gallery for a mini retrospective show. This mini exhibition entitled "Dance of the Gopis" will feature works by Jin Leng from the last decade.
This series of paintings of the Dance of the Gopis are a personal exposition of the romantic emotion, the ‘raja rasa’ , the king of emotions, permeated with nuances and meanings within, of what it is to be human, also equally about the quest of the human soul seeking the sublime and the ultimate in the cosmic dance of life.
It is the romantic love-play of ‘shringara rasa’ promoting an endless and transcendent level of desire in mortal beings, represented by the Gopis, longing for the union with the Divine.
It is a celebration of the union of the male and female principles resplendent in Hindu mythology and it is a doctrine of the questing soul which is feminine. The symbolism is woven around the “Rasa Leela”, the springtime round-dance of the Gopis, the cowherd maidens, for the cowherd-god, Krishna. Esoterically, Krishna is the soul, the ‘shaktiman’, Radha the ‘sushumna’, the spinal column, Gopis the ‘nadis’, nerve points of the astral body.
Colours are explored as vibrating energy in a Mandala, also as a ‘sanjhi’ design, one enjoyed by the Gopis in sand-painting, to signify the sanctified space of the ‘rasa leela’ love dance in the garden of Vrindavan.
Jinleng
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