Saturday, January 19, 2013

‘The Morning’ & ‘Yellow River’

Renowned Contemporary Indian artist, Paresh Maity, presents 12 watercolors plus a bronze sculpture-installation work he has recently executed at a solo during the prestigious event, Singapore's Art Stage courtesy Sumukha Gallery.

The world’s renowned artists such as at Art Stage China's Ai WeiWei, UK's Damien Hirst, Anish Kapoor and Pablo Picasso have figured there. This is Maity's third solo showcase at Art Stage and incidentally his sixty-first solo worldwide, including those held in the home country, an achievement of sorts for this talented artist in his late forties.

Two of his watercolor works mirror the facets of Chinese modern art. According to him, his installation work is largely about the sounds as well as the perceived impact of the force of water on human life. He has made use of brass along with a mirror to build the idea of several reflections within our minds .He has had an instinctive attraction for the power and reflections of water and the boat employed in coastal areas across the world.

The artist looks at it as an instrument or a tool – vital in the livelihood or even survival of fishermen apart from serving as a means of transportation. He has drawn boats right through his artistic career – those from Tamluk, Kerala’s old rice boats, boats from China, from Venice and from the holy city of Benares.

In his couple of Chinese watercolors, the artist refers to Chinese art and combines both the classic & the modern. The undertaking of mixing watercolor with the inkwash method gives way to pristine lines, colors even as minimal strokes bring to life these paintings, fundamental in linking the future and past of China’s modern art. He offers a fascinating flashback in the Piccadilly & St. Paul’s Square, blending in the surreal with the impressionist. His technique looks to recall historical trends in the mode of abstraction. The Western artists like Piet Mondrian, Wassily Kandinsky etc during the 20th Century demonstrated the very purity of art in its amazing abstract forms.

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