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Meeting the maker now

Koushal Choudhry's acrylics are a whirr of colours and patterns

SOUL CALL Koushal Choudhry strives for the `ultimate power'

Remember the schoolboy trick of putting an inked thread between pages in a pattern like 8 and pulling it out slowly to get whorled, shaded patterns and inked hands? Well, Koushal Choudhry's paintings evoke some elements of those simplistic patterns, but are more intricately executed in acrylics and with a much vaster palette. On display at the State Gallery of Art were 18 of Koushal's works, and three of them have been lapped up within two days of the show's opening.

To feel the magic of the art, one has to stand at a distance and see the broad, long, confident strokes of the brush. At the entrance is the huge Rebirth-III (5ft by 4ft). Out of the darker background emerges the illuminescence. A few other paintings follow the pattern with greater darkness and light emerging out with greater intricacy. Koushal calls the show Soul - The inner power. In Ecstasy-I, a riot of blue/white/yellow, a feminine face emerges out in the middle.

Koushal is a busy artist. So, snatches from a conversation, he is having on a cellphone. "When did you start?"

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"I started when I was 12. I didn't go to a regular art school but dabbled in it as it was my passion. Now, I am 38,"

"You are from Kolkata?"

"No. I am from Jaipur, Rajasthan."

"What are your paintings about?"

"My paintings are about mystery. They also have a message: When we can achieve moksha in this birth itself why wait for a re-birth. My paintings are also about the urge to meet the ultimate power (thus explaining the titles of the paintings)."

The standout piece in the show is titled Murlidhar: A twist, twirl and whorl that has the pattern of peacock feathers with a flautist in the middle.

SERISH NANISETTI

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