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Akhilesh [1956-]. The abstract compositions of Akhilesh have freshness and a distinct ‘representational’ language of lines, color and tones that combines geometric and organic qualities that lends to his abstracts. Having grown up under the shadow of folk and tribal tradition of Madhya Pradesh, Akhilesh’s works subsumes the visual language of folk art signs and symbols. There is a strong indigenist feel in his abstracts, which do not sublimate feelings of meditation but its richness. What gets projected is the time-space intangibles worked through sensitively by the artist’s experiences. |
The dominant trope of life’s experiences, exposure and assimilation of his regional milieu, are rebelliously worked through implicating a cultural ethos. And this perhaps, allows for ‘reading’ of his abstracts as ‘landscapes’, ‘topography’, ‘birds eye view’ ‘grids’ ‘ritualistic sanctimony’, textile tradition, etc. and many similar evocations. His compositions nevertheless are a rich tapestry of colours and shapes interwoven intuitively and intelligently to elicit strange responses or direct endearing appeals. Cutting through various binds be it regional or otherwise, the colours of Akhileh make direct and dynamic statements imbued with rasa of tradition and modernity. |
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