My art revolves around human conflict with his/her surroundings. Strife, discord, disunity provoke debate and argument with human maneuvers with nature. This forms the content of my art, in both my sculptures and paintings. The outcome would be an analogous psychological state of a sensitive human questioning the contemporary environment and its effects. Narrative stage is set where the many facets of human amidst his/her own doings are shown in realistic inflictions with tempered expressionistic undertones.

The take off of my works is an impressionistic idea triggered by a news report, and my own experiences, or the observations that provoke the meaning of human existence, in his/her own doings. Multifarious proportions are developed that express anger, agony which contrast with elemental responses of empathy, compassion and harmony with the surroundings. The mixture of this pictorial imagery of combative resistance and sensitive rejoinders give my imaginary art a distinct place, of juxtaposing opposed aesthetics of pain and pleasure.

Exploring the material has been my passion. My process involves building or layering with spontaneity or working with detailed sketches. I inquires into human psychological states in bits of found objects, pieces of twisted wire etc, which are adjusted, altered, revised into sculptures and installations or carefully molded fibre glass, steel and cement structures that embody aesthetic emotions. Thick layers of oil, acrylic paints explore my painterly skills as well as linear rendering.

Gigantic sizes of sculptures as well as paintings has been another passion, where the process of involvement with the material and the explorations of the emotional aspects of varied pictorial reach a peak in the vastness of the expanse, satisfying the artists adventurous spirit of discovering myself through forms. This temperament of exploring the material in huge proportions works, in terms of earnest exploration, were the fervent, the fiery, the warmth and the compassion are deal with exhaustive and embracing energies.

Ch.Manohar, MFA


 


 
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