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| Oil on Canvas_24" x 36" |
“My paintings are not mere reflections of
the sacred Hindu practices but are my inspiration from divergent cultures and
from the memoirs of my travels. My paintings are an expression of the word AUM,”
informs Venus Sanghvi, Mumbai-based artist, waiting to making a mark.
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| Oil on Canvas_12" x 12" |
Having spent a large
part of her formative years in the US, Venus has been exposed to progressive
oeuvres of modern art and greatly influenced by global art trends. In her
recent series, she delicately incorporates the scripts of AUM into her language
of colours on canvas.
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| Oil on Canvas_12" x 12" |
Engaging in processes
like incising, burning, stencilling and scoring, Venus marks and alters the
surface of the canvas to fuse into it a medley of colours and materials that
include metal, paper, wood, even sindoor,
ink, soot, etc. A confluence of both
the processes offers a visual meditation of the energies, thoughts, feelings,
and culture.
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| Oil on Canvas_11" x 14" |
“In my
paintings, the shapes and structures begin to take form, which I reflect
through the layers of paint, drippings, brush strokes etc. The brush strokes on the canvas are inspired
from the studies of John Sargent’s masterpieces during my master’s degree. The
interplay of layers reflects the past and the present; colours are the
energies, the thick and thin brush strokes and textures express my
interactions,” explains the artist.
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| Oil on Canvas_24" x 24" |
The paintings express
the semantic of harmony, veiled or unveiled, in the esoteric layers of colours,
scripts and textures to form rhythmic patterns and designs. “In essence, my paintings are cue for our wonderful origin, the
delicate fragility of that gentle existence,” she concludes.