Exhibition
Sadaanandan
Exhibition of paintings
by
SADAANANDAN
5th Feb. to 3rd March, 2010
at
GALLERIE GANESHA
E-557 Greater Kailash - II
New Delhi - 110048
Phone : 011-29217306, 011-29226043
After having learnt the fine techniques of Kerala Murals he has created a series that focus on the. environment in exquisite colors. His works exude his love for nature and fascination for birds. With the stroke of his brush he brings to life the voyage of the birds on the boughs and dwells on their offspring’s enjoying the comfort of their nest. Shut your eyes and you can hear the twitter of the birds as they move from branch to branch. The stylized depictions of nature evokes the light and sensation of wandering in an ornamental garden providing a unique visual experience. The autumn colors seize the senses as it brings to life the rhythm and colors ssociated with the highly acclaimed mural art of Kerala. The artist invites you to view the world through color in his unique style, technique and subtle lyricism. - Uma Prakash | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Born : 1965 (Trichur, Kerala) Qualifications SoloExhibitions Group Exhibitions 2009 : Concern India foundation, Mumbai Works acquired by private collectors in India and Abroad | ||||||||||||||||||||
The aesthetic-imaginary dynamics, revealed in the nascent "Bird series" of adanandan will indubitably be astounding even to a sceptic in pursuit of the creative evolution of this artist. Of course, earlier phases of his career too bear testimony to the incendiary radicalism with which this painter, schooled in the ideal hereditary mural art of Kerala, recycled its "raison d'etre" in the wake of historically changing sensibilities in visual media. Not only could Sadanandan, first ever, transplant the legacy of mural painting from the walls of temples and Palaces over to the canvas and display it in modern art galleries but he did change the very logic of narrative structure that ruled this distinct genre of art from time immemorial without however compromising the purity and specificity of its style. The mythological themes and celestial characters in his mural gradually yielded place to down-to-earth human concerns as well as secular motives and signs. After this nostalgic journey into the undying river scenes of the rural child hood through the "Bathing Women" series Sadaanandan now enters ostensibly a fresh locus of self inventive eco-aesthetics with his latest serial venture based on "Birds". The winged souls he traditionally depicts in the murals as metaphors of mirth and merriment, descend to Sadaanandan’s canvases pensively as if fallen from the grace of the sheltering sky. Perching on boughs and branches, among thinning foliage or drooping flowers or swinging on lops or tendrils or floating over water waves these tiny droplets of beauty seem to ruminate over their lost heaven of freedom in which they floated once with full stretched wings. The merciless images of folded wings in these paintings throw the viewer to the stunning awareness of the hellish schism between grand ideals of human freedom and its actualization on earth. The bird series is a long pace in the creative life of the artist. Even while keeping abreast the disciplined lyricism and the delicate spatial management of the traditional mural style Sadartandan stubbornly dissents with the ideological restraint attributed to it by visually re-presenting the life and times he lives. The "Bird", for Sadaanandan, is a totem that abstracts the lineage of multitudes. It defines the artist in a thousand ways. – K.A. Mohandas | ||||||||||||||||||||
