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The artist as a young man

Seeing Sunil Lohar’s paintings at the Kalakriti Art Gallery is like revisiting the old masters and seeing their works through his eyes. A student of history of art, the influence is obvious. Instead of duplicating their works, he uses the image s like motifs and scatters them across his canvases in an irreverent way.

Son of an artist, hailing from a community of blacksmiths, Sunil focuses on subject rather than style. There is this canvas that looks like a post-apocalypse vision with scattered objects in a vast landscape. “We search for our identity. We want to know who we are. Just as our archaeology and history is searching for objects through which we reconstruct history, I want to use these objects from our minds for our search,” says Sunil. Another canvas shows his obsession with the old masters. A blue canvas with images fleshed out in the black show the Biblical David as he has been sculpted/painted across the ages by Bernini, Michelangelo, Donatello and Andrea del Verrocchio. And in front of these iconic images, walking past, his eyes lowered to the ground, in cargoes and a satchel is a colourful Sunil Lohar walking past.

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