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Chandigarh College of Architecture, Chandigarh
Swiss beauty prompted him to display works
The images belong to a man smitten but that can hardly be helped. Switzerland is a photographer’s delight and when the camera-wielding aficionado is Chandigarh College of Architecture’s Principal Rajnish Wattas, this European country turns ‘muse’ virtually performing for the camera.The result is 86 photographs, all part of an exhibition “Cityscapes of Switzerland: Images of Mendrisio, Lugano and Zurich” which was inaugurated by an eminent art historian, Dr B.N. Goswami, at Foyer Gallery at College of Architecture, Sector 12, today.
It was an official assignment, to represent the city at an architecture exhibition and to speak on Chandigarh at Accademia di Architettura at Mendrisio, Switzerland, that gave Wattas the chance to travel and click. The photographs capture the pristine beauty and quaintness of the Ticiono region which Wattas describes as “Swiss cool and Italian passion”.
Church steeples, cobbled streets, brightly painted buildings, picturesque trams, glorious blue skies and white downy snow are just some of the marvels captured.
Indeed, peach, yellow and blue buildings juxtapose with ancient tiled streets and modern sculptures adorn tiny railway stations. Old-world piazzas evoke ancient times gone by and lush landscapes where the green grass shines and the blue waters sparkle infuse a sense of wonder.
Light and shadow play adroit games on snow, narrow winding streets, on red-tiled roofs and even cast a glorious golden hue in the room for the royal banquet at a heritage hotel in Lugano.
Wattas is no stranger to photography having contributed articles and photographs to magazines and newspapers across the country and was also responsible for introducing the subject of architectural photography to the college nearly 20 years ago. But Switzerland prompted him to hold his first solo exhibition.
The exhibition can be viewed at Foyer Gallery, College of Architecture, Sector 12, between 9 am and 5 pm till April 24, including Saturday and Sunday.
