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V Ramesh’s Still Lifes

One of the themes that has occupied V Ramesh is the connectedness of mankind through a oneness of human experience or existence. He constantly questions the physicality of the body and tries to go beneath the skin in order to develop a plural idiom in his art practice. The idea of the sacred runs through his works as a muted melody. This still life series carries a strong emotional resonance and goes beyond the...
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One of the themes that has occupied V Ramesh is the connectedness of mankind through a oneness of human experience or existence. He constantly questions the physicality of the body and tries to go beneath the skin in order to develop a plural idiom in his art practice. The idea of the sacred runs through his works as a muted melody. This still life series carries a strong emotional resonance and goes beyond the physical objects that are represented as either memento mori or vanitas genres.

The various stations of Ramesh's quest reappear transformed into a fuller experience. The process of painting engaged him over the pandemic period in an intensive yet spontaneous quest to retrace his journey afresh by using watercolours and gouache. Ramesh looks for that transparency of being able to look through the membrane of a vessel and see whole worlds in its interior, almost like the doha of Kabir that invokes the image of transformed worlds in the inner space contained in the water vessel.

Ramesh’s watercolours have that same quality - of allowing the viewer to look through something that is impermeable and instilling or imbuing these images with poetic metaphors. This has been liberating for him as he has succeeded in the grounding of imagery in time and place by reimagining and even creating memory.

Artist V Ramesh was born in Andhra Pradesh in 1958. He received his education in the arts from M S University in Vadodara. He received the Junior Fellowship from the Department of Culture in 1990-93, the Sanskriti Award in 1993, and a Senior Fellowship from the Department of Culture in 1995-97.

V Ramesh is among the group of pioneering contemporary artists who were invited to exhibit at the National Gallery of Modern Art, Bengaluru in 2014. One of his most recent solo shows include Remembrances of Voices Past at the Katzen Arts Center in the American University Museum, Washington which took place in April and May 2015. Along with his career in the arts, he has been teaching in the Department of Fine Arts, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, since 1985.

The artist lives and works in Visakhapatnam.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2010 Gallery Threshold, New Delhi

2008 '....My Heart Would Be Enough', Gallery Threshold, New Delhi

2007 'Painted Hymns', Gallery Threshold, New Delhi

2005 Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai

2000 'A Thousand and One Desires', Gallery Threshold, New Delhi

2000 Nazar Art Gallery, Baroda

1998 Apparao Galleries, Chennai

1998 Gallery Threshold, Vishakapatnam

1993,97 Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai

1991 Sakshi Gallery, Bangalore

1990 Centre of contemporary Art, New Delhi

1988 Max Muller Bhavan, Hyderabad

1988 Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai
Selected Group Exhibitions

2019 'India Art Fair', presented by Gallery Threshold, New Delhi

2018 'Verdant Memory', Gallery Threshold, New Delhi

2016 'Revisiting Beatuty', Gallery Threshold, New Delhi

2012 'Rewind , Review ... ', Gallery Threshold, New Delhi

2012 'Works on Paper- 2012', Gallery Espace, New Delhi

2011-12 'Back to School: Baroda 1979-89', Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai

2011 'Back to School: Baroda 1979-89', Palette Art Gallery, New Delhi

2010 '10 x 10', Gallery Threshold, New Delhi

2010 '1.2.3.4.5...In the Line of Fire', Lemongrasshopper, Ahmedabad

2008 'Faces', Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai

2008 'Mapping Memories-2: Painted Travelogues of Bali and Burma', Gallery Threshold, New Delhi

2008 'Mapping Memories-1: Painted Travelogues of China and Greece', Gallery Threshold, New Delhi

2007 'Figurative Aesthetics', Hyderabad Art Gallery, Hyderabad

2005 'Mapping Memories: Painted Travelogues', Gallery Threshold, New Delhi

1995 'Recent Trends in Contemporary Indian Art', Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi

1992 Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai

1992 Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
Participations

2011 'The Intuitive: Logic Revisted', from the Osians Collection at The World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland

2010 'Evolve: 10th Anniversary Show', Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai

1988 Second Biennale, Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal

1982 Second Biennale, Havana, Cuba

1982 Natioanl Exhibition, New Delhi

1981 All India Graphic Exhibition, Chandigarh

Honours and Awards

1995-97 Senior Fellowship from Department of Culture

1993 Sanskrit Award

1990-93 Junior Fellowship from Department of Culture

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PAST AUCTIONS

Showing 2 of 2 works

Lot 115 Details

Art Rises for India: A Covid-19 Relief Fundraiser Auction by the Indian Art Community 19-20 May 2021

V Ramesh

Portrait of Ramana

Watercolour and gouache on paper

14.5 x 10.5 in

Winning bid
$1,108
Rs 79,750
(Inclusive of buyer's premium)

Lot 39 Details

COVID-19 Relief Fundraiser Online Auction 29-30 April 2020

V Ramesh

Painted Prayer

Oil on canvas

24 x 24 in

Winning bid
$1,348
Rs 99,760
(Inclusive of buyer's premium)

PAST StoryLTD AUCTIONS

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Lot 27 Details

FIAE Fundraiser Auction 10 November 2020

V Ramesh

The Poet's Passion

Watercolour on Canson paper

47 x 35.25 in

Winning bid
$1,233
Rs 89,393
(Inclusive of buyer's premium)

EXHIBITIONS

Showing 4 of 34 works

From the Ordinary to the Extraordinary: V... 21 Sep-21 Oct 2021

V Ramesh

Untitled

Watercolour on paper

36 x 36 in

From the Ordinary to the Extraordinary: V... 21 Sep-21 Oct 2021

V Ramesh

Untitled

Watercolour on paper

30 x 36 in

From the Ordinary to the Extraordinary: V... 21 Sep-21 Oct 2021

V Ramesh

Untitled

Watercolour on paper

46 x 36 in

From the Ordinary to the Extraordinary: V... 21 Sep-21 Oct 2021

V Ramesh

Untitled

Watercolour on paper

48 x 36 in

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