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Lot 73

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... 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 exhibition catalogue, 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 every day.

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