Shantanu Lodh was born in Kolkata, India and he is currently living and working in New Delhi. His series titled ‘Drifters’ were shown at Gallery Beyond in Mumbai, 2010 and at Art Konsult in New Delhi, 2009. Anant Art Gallery in New Delhi showed his previous series ‘Classic Colonial Tales’ in 2009. ‘Classic Colonial Tales’ were mostly black and white, oil on canvas, and quite large in size, created by juxtaposing his family photographs and pictures of Queen Victoria downloaded from the internet.
He was inspired by Psychedelic Art, Buddhist Art and Chinese landscape painting. This on going series is not a critic as his earlier works but emphasises on the meditativ aspect of painting. He takes photographs for these and mirror them to produce an effect of near symmetry and near balance. He says
“I have intentionally removed color from the paintings to attain an essence closer to Chinese landscape painting, which reduced distraction and seduction, I have also removed linear narratives which were quite central to my earlier works to produce a kind of Now and Here, where the mind would not meander into the Past or Future. I am in a transition, as the ongoing experiments in art and sustained meditation in life will definitely lead to unknown quarters of the mind worth exploring as a newcomer to this zone of Mindfulness”.
Enjoy his work images!
‘Mask’, watercolour on paper, 26″ x 20″, 2009
‘Humpty Dumpty – II’, watercolour on paper, 26″ x 20″, 2009
‘Man eater’, watercolour on paper, 26″ x 20″, 2009
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I like his works! This reminds me of Rorschach Inkblot Test. Now I saw a girl enveloping black chador in pictures.
Thanks a lot for your comment! It’s amazing that how water colours are used intensively. I love his idea of mirror images.