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Art and Art History | Gouache | 30 x 40 cm |
1996 |
Courtesy.
Shirish Panchal Collection.
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As a critical post modern miniaturist,
Sheikh has been a member of the avant-garde who reinvented the idea of
narrative for Contemporary Indian Art. The title of the work reminds one of Binod Behari Mukherjee’s murals,
reflecting a continuity of thought around art, its history and its pedagogy.
Yet in the hands of Binod Behari’s student
this analogy of discipline and landscape becomes restless and radical. There
are hints of deep, yet almost untraceable shadows of surrealist iconography
that anticipates a dystopia. My eyes can see Beauty enshrined and protected,
yet being washed away by storm and inferno. Art and its history are man made,
yet the universe weeps when art dies. But it never dies, always survives the
storm.
The
handling of material is starling. Gouache as medium has defined by its opaque
character. Sheik transforms it, challenging gouache to become water colour.
These eclectic expectations from medium challenge our notions regarding
relationships between the physical and the conceptual.
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