The paintings here consist of a visual hold, an immediacy and enigmatic gripping presence. Both the artists work invite us, in the silence of meditation, in a state of inner peace, in a spirit of universality in the abstract forms on canvas.
The mixture of Indian roots and French culture is the hallmark of Akkitham’s artistic expression. He expresses his search for the divine and his spirituality through geometrical, abstract & yet clear forms. The warm shimmering tones of his paintings, sometimes highlighted discreetly with gold, communicates the mystery of an age old civilization. Sohan Qadri is an exception, he is a tantric painter. You can look at his paintings as yantras described in words like mantra. No matters what angle you choose to observe his paintings, it reveals ‘mysticism’
Celebrated by their contemporaries for their formal rigour and invention, both the artist have invented a language that provides unending possibilities for learned exegesis and decoding their gestural rhetoric. In Akkitham’s work one can witness regimes of colours, the relation between the regimes and the harmony f the tones. His language often evokes the potential of meditative enclosure. Sohan’s colour patterns are no more than spin offs, echoes & remembrances.
Through these works one realizes that the act of painting is travels of a pensive mind that adheres to humble submission of space and its infinite possibilities rather than to specificities of form and their impositions.
The exhibition is on at Art Konsult 23 Hauz khas Village, New delhi. Open from 18 nov-16 Dec’09 from 11 to 8pm.
