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Vagrant recollections: A painting by artist Ambadas A retrospective art exhibition, “Sublime Encounters”, portraying the works of veteran artist Ambadas has been organised by Delhi Art Gallery in the Capital. The show is open for viewing up to February 10. Curated by Roobina Karode, the exhibition will showcase Ambadas’s oil paintings on canvas and ink-watercolour-mixed media creations on paper. Born in India, the artist has been living in Norway since 1972 and is also the founder-member of the much talked about “Group 1890”. Formed in 1962 by a group of artists in New Delhi, it was set up with the aim of getting artists to “see phenomena in their virginal state”. The group believed that Indian artists must not look either to “memories of a glorious past” nor try to “catch up with the times” in order to create context-relevant art. Ambadas’s chosen trajectory too dismisses the trappings of the external world. Primarily indulging in random wanderings and chance discoveries, he says: “I just begin with an outline of some kind and then it starts developing. Drawings are neither preliminary sketches of my paintings nor for retention of ideas. For me, the everyday ritual of drawing is a compulsive need, almost in the same way that personal diaries are written.” Delhi Art Gallery director Ashish Anand says: “This exhibition takes the viewer through the decades through which Ambadas engaged in his singular pursuit. He is among those art heroes who have been instrumental in contributing to the fashioning of Indian contemporary art as it exists now.” According to Roobina Karode, “Ambadas’s paintings are filled with a raw, explosive energy that occupies each and every corner of the pictorial space. He has precariously relocated himself in an in-between space, a buffer zone between India and Norway, two cultures and two world-views. The mysterious nature of his work, however, has been consistent over 50 years.” What is most intriguing is his sensitive dialogue with the medium and surface, resulting in microscopic veins and eruptions and a bubbly surface texture that is difficult to achieve purely by human skill. The artist continues to feel nomadic, wandering like a sage and all this reflects in his art. Often disoriented within his own spaces of everyday affairs, he lives secluded, almost reclusively, in an old Norwegian house. Kunal Diwan
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