Article from exhibition brochure written by Neeta Om Prakash
It’s a challenge for an artist to work in an unusual medium and overcome the limitations of it. There are many mediums and techniques traditionally used by craftsmen, like terracotta (pottery); repou’sse (embossing on metal sheets) used for making idols, ritualistic objects for doors of temples; metal casting by cire – perdue process (lost wax process)...
MEMOIRS SENSUAL & SUBLIME BY NIYATEE SHINDE
Querozito DeSouza’s recent works continue to be an effortless coalescence of the mythical and the real. By every standard he now has a uniquely definable style; a style that he has now perfected. Poignant with layers of suggestion and meaning, this body of work defines a new energetic reality and unique to this new energetic reality is a sense of weightlessness.
‘The Mythical and the Real’
Beyond the seemingly real world of appearances and the domain of intellect or reason, which comply with the confirmatory rationale of what is sensed and perceived, there lies a plane of subtle reality of an archetypal nature, as through pre – ordained to affect the surface reality. This archetypal reality is what may be called a ‘mythic – world’.
The physical...
Verses from Yesteryears
What if the painted surface is reality? A question that perturbs and raises an eyebrow. The answer to this lies within the realms of the painting. The painting reveals a pictorial reality that transmits the truth in a living body interpreted by the devouring and probing eyes of the artist.
The process of painting for me is unrevealing myself and rendering nuances from...
NEETA OM PRAKASH 1997
Ever since man started giving tangible forms to his ideas female figure got a significant role to play. Whether man wanted to offer his obeisance to the fertility aspect either of nature or of man; or the creative faculty personified, a female figure has always been an universal symbol of motherhood. Female figure whether nude or clothed has also been the representation of...