A BALASUBRAMANIAM

NO : 1 Title : A. Balasubramaniyan SIZE :40x38 A Balasubramaniam,Balasubramaniam’s latest works are a play of shadows through which he questions the viewer’s belief in the unseen and the unknown – encouraging them to query their own consciousness. After stripping down a form to its bare minimum, Balasubramaniam allows it to grow again through a series of shadows – although seen, intangible to the sense of touch. Each form and its multiple shadows share their own camaraderie with the element of light.With some appearing darker and deeper than others,the notion of transcendental infinity is also established.“Despite the strong visual affirmation involved in witnessing Bala’s works, we are nevertheless challenged to believe what we see. Our sense of perception, of reality, is questioned and at times evokes a contradictory realization” says Deepak Talwar of Talwar Gallery, Delhi and New York.  expressive brush strokes constructed the forms. This technique also facilitated the advance his concepts namely faith, peace, terrorism, communal strife, political malpractices and corruption. Engaging with icons of historical significance as Gandhi or Christ or a metaphysical concept of the dancing Nataraja in its dual role as a creator and destroyer, and other ubiquitous ones as birds or lamp, visually marking his works as quasi realistic or mimetic but his abstraction is metaphorical communicating his engagement with these forms to have layered meaning. Said Alphonso, “my works are neither real nor abstract”, paradoxical indeed, but underpinning it is the essence of his concepts.