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Working in several media, A. Balasubramaniam prefers not to be slotted as an installation artist, sculptor or printmaker. Fascinated by what lies beyond the visible and the immediate, in this artist's case, "…seeing and believing are two separate acts, depending on your discernment and perception. His prints, paintings, and sculptures, with their constant plays on the visible and invisible, illusion and certainty, challenge notions of the real... Working in several media, A. Balasubramaniam prefers not to be slotted as an installation artist, sculptor or printmaker. Fascinated by what lies beyond the visible and the immediate, in this artist's case, "…seeing and believing are two separate acts, depending on your discernment and perception. His prints, paintings, and sculptures, with their constant plays on the visible and invisible, illusion and certainty, challenge notions of the real and the unreal" (Minhazz Majumdar, "Uncharted Territories: Alwar Balasubramaniam", Sculptures, Vol. 27, No. 10, December 2008).

In the present lot, "…against a screen print of the sky, the artist invites the sun's own energy to burn through, filling the burnt space with a fiery red which appears to create a sun, filling up the space it consumes. Here the course of action and reaction, cause and effect, and finally destruction followed by construction, exemplify the artist's belief in the cyclical nature of things: in life there is death, and likewise in death, life. His restorative approach, replacing and renewing the apparent traces of consumption, is pushed further by working to integrate the cyclical process in a covert manner, oblivious to the eye" (Deepak Talwar, "Casting the Liminal, Searching the Real", A. Balasubramanian, Talwar Gallery exhibition catalogue, 2004, not paginated).

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