Primarily a figurative painter, Théodore Mesquita’s creations strive to elicit notions of identity constructed through specific representations of symbols, signs and the body in art. For him, signs and symbols manifest themselves, in a state of cultural pluralism, wherein the archetypal figuration is reflected, recognised and regained, through the environs of the imagined and real.
The images contained in his painting are soaked deep in faith, in the art and covenant of picture making, rooted in continuum, of the human, the singular, the communal, the one, the many; in the presence of its histories, in the presence of our lives.
His work records body culture, and its corroboration within the articulation of signs and symbols. It delves into the archetypal recognition of a broad psychological landscape, redefining the pluralistic cultures, which connect and discern the existence of the times and space of our lives, those having definite sounds and visions, pregnant with supernal meaning.
Elaborating on his artistic processes, the artist says, “In the foundation of my artistic endeavour, I have been consumed with the primal urge….to deliver and to sustain my expression, to achieve contemporary articulation, innovation, exploration and reflection - in the extended frame of time and space.”
Signs and symbols for him offer infinite possibilities to explore the inherent associations present in the animate and inanimate subjects of contention and thereby forms of expression and understanding, as the artist believes they cut across the worldwide cultural divide of confusion and acrimony – arriving and contributing into a profound and perceptive communion.
“As I evolve continuously from the meditative experiences that evoke my creativity…” the artist reveals, “I am beckoned into the realms of the absent navigator, who guides the motions of perception…The extinct traditions, that shelters the stream of consciousness…The recalled gesture, that defines the repository of images…The voice of the prophet, which sustains the cannons of manifestation…The rites of fertility, that invigorates the spirit of realization…All this and more as I rethread the motifs of birth and incantation, life and confinement, death and bewitchment…”
The images contained in his painting are soaked deep in faith, in the art and covenant of picture making, rooted in continuum, of the human, the singular, the communal, the one, the many; in the presence of its histories, in the presence of our lives.
His work records body culture, and its corroboration within the articulation of signs and symbols. It delves into the archetypal recognition of a broad psychological landscape, redefining the pluralistic cultures, which connect and discern the existence of the times and space of our lives, those having definite sounds and visions, pregnant with supernal meaning.
Elaborating on his artistic processes, the artist says, “In the foundation of my artistic endeavour, I have been consumed with the primal urge….to deliver and to sustain my expression, to achieve contemporary articulation, innovation, exploration and reflection - in the extended frame of time and space.”
Signs and symbols for him offer infinite possibilities to explore the inherent associations present in the animate and inanimate subjects of contention and thereby forms of expression and understanding, as the artist believes they cut across the worldwide cultural divide of confusion and acrimony – arriving and contributing into a profound and perceptive communion.
“As I evolve continuously from the meditative experiences that evoke my creativity…” the artist reveals, “I am beckoned into the realms of the absent navigator, who guides the motions of perception…The extinct traditions, that shelters the stream of consciousness…The recalled gesture, that defines the repository of images…The voice of the prophet, which sustains the cannons of manifestation…The rites of fertility, that invigorates the spirit of realization…All this and more as I rethread the motifs of birth and incantation, life and confinement, death and bewitchment…”
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