Empty Spaces have the most energy fields than
anything else in the universe; and all the object, matter, particles we know,
constitute just ten percent of the universe....or even less. The fascination
for the dark matter and empty spaces…and more importantly the floating energy
fields within is what binds Ajay Narayan and Shridhar Iyer together. This
engagement allows me to curatorially put together two artists who are
stylistically poles apart. Yet, inspite of the stylistic difference, Shridhar
and Ajay have worked together in collaboration in terms of sharing of ideas and
space.
In a strict sense this is not a ‘two man
show’. Friendly Strangers is a essentially Ajay Narayan solo with Shridhar Iyer
giving it support. Shridhar has been celebrating a quiet journey of discovering
a new medium, and is seeding a very strong series. Ajay on the other hand is
maturing within his early style. One is more focused on matter one more on
energy. Yet together they are engaged in re-presenting the unknown. The unknown
that is falling out of fashion as the world becomes more material obsessed and
Man lands on Mars.
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| From the series Journey through Images and Objects (Yog Maya) Shridhar Iyer, Wood Straw and Fishing Net 32" x 36" . |
From within the gharana of
contemporary abstraction from Bharat Bhavan, Shridhar Iyer has been exploring the
unknown energy and force of the Universe primarily through the medium of
painting and drawing. Yet, even within the gharana
Iyer is a break…a self-taught burst of energy. Highly experimental in life and
work, Iyer has often made forays into installation based art practices, but it
is in the last one and a half month, working in NIV center's basement studio,
the artist has for the first time produced a body of work that shows a
sustained engagement with alternative mediums and new sculpture.
Using mediums like coconut tree, fishing nets,
cloth and wood straw, dye, Iyer continues his engagement with the vast unknown...this time
focusing on the energy fields that occupy the spaces between us and our known
objects. He combines this representational quest with the love for the organic
and the perishable. The artist has pledged himself to a spiritual connection
with the universe, for him all the energy fields surrounding us are eternal, omnipresent,
powerful, ethereal and friendly.In this series Journey through Images and Object (Yog Maya) we will get a first look at a new and very important body of work in the context of sculptural abstraction.
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| Ajay Narayan, Reflection of space on the surface of sea, |
| Acrylic on canvas |
Ajay Narayan has been painting to invoke concealed,
obscure descriptions of the visible world. His recent works are an engagement
with the vastness of space, the incomprehensible eternal dark matter within
which planets, stars and galaxies float. This series echo this inquiries
into the universe through gazing at the night sky and encountering its sublime.
His painted canvasses and fiberglass
sculptures capture this beauty...dwelling on the floating objects through the
gaze of friendship, and his love for colour and impasto.
There is a love for the edgy zone between the
decorative and the aesthetic/ synthetic and the eternally natural. Living inside an urban environment it becomes
more important to look at the great eternity.
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