Rajan Krishnan`s recent monochromatic works voice the artist`s disenchantment with urbanization and the environmental degradation that it has brought along with it. These paintings “are often, bleak, fragmentary visions of a dry, sterile landscape that seems to be an echo of a time which once buzzed with activity. `Instead of paddy, concrete and consumerist debris grow in these fields”. Once a sentimental painter of his native...
Rajan Krishnan`s recent monochromatic works voice the artist`s disenchantment with urbanization and the environmental degradation that it has brought along with it. These paintings “are often, bleak, fragmentary visions of a dry, sterile landscape that seems to be an echo of a time which once buzzed with activity. `Instead of paddy, concrete and consumerist debris grow in these fields”. Once a sentimental painter of his native Kerala`s agri-scapes, the artist`s present “hard hitting, cynicism…strives to document the sudden and overwhelming transitions occurring in his environment (that acts as a microcosm for the state of affairs in the country at large). These works make a clinical, examination, up close and unforgiving, at those `un-done landscapes` that he once held so dear” (Bodhi Art, 2006). In this work weeds have taken over the yard, and a thick, splotchy concrete wall blocks out all light and life, conveying the bleak realities of the urban landscape that the artist confronts everyday.