Saturday, January 26, 2008

Manjunath Kamath





"Usually I start my painting with one element, a small one that traces your mind. Sometimes it goes to childhood and takes elements from there as well. I keep on adding and eliminating these and ultimately the painting happens. For me the process is more important than the work. Often I work with an illusionist space and even an ordinary element sometimes becomes a fantasy for me. In my paintings, I try to portray emptiness."

5 comments:

  1. FANTASTIC work! I love the colours and the sense of space in his work

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  2. I love these - the fragments of the ordinary and the immense space gives a fantastic, surreal effect - ah, what I'd do for a print on my walls! Or to see the originals in the flesh!

    they remind me a bit of a novel I read recently by Raj Kamal Jha - If you are afraid of heights - something about these traces of very quiet, ordinary lives (I just love the couple in the second pic, and the row of chappals at the bottom) floating in this huge space of vibrant colour, feels like a memory of a dream, slightly unsettling, and resonating deeply with something...

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  3. Headmistress, I completely covet his art as well, out of curiosity I checked out a few galleries, most of his paintings were SOLD OUT !

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  4. Brilliant work, exceptional, unique.
    Where can I find your pictures?
    Gianpaolo - Italy
    gorlidra@gmail.com

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