Vivan Sundaram | Biography | Life | Artworks
This gave birth to the idea that a work of art must project the artistic reflection of reality in its specific form. It was not the artistic semblance which is reality, but a special form of the reflection of reality.
To question the dominant in whatever artistic way one does and to always continuously position oneself from what has become ossified or static in some way. And that sparks my creativity till date.
The works of Vivan Sundaram executed in the mid-and late 1980s—such as his series of paintings Signs of Fire, Long Night-Drawings in Charcoal and Engine Oil and Charcoal, Works on Paper, and now his sculptural installations—apparently conform to this concept and depict such reflections of reality which he has sensed in relation to recent events and social environment.
The images interpreting catastrophic happenings in past and present times, and those threatening the future, are rendered in a highly expressive manner.
I am a great believer in responding to the environment, to changed aesthetic, even a new political situation.
The Long Night is a comment on the failure of modern civilization, which, with its doubts, agonies, and anxieties, has reached a point of the prolonged crisis resulting in man’s indifference, both to nature and to his own kind.
His series Engine Oil and Charcoal bears a similarity to Long Night, not because of the use of charcoal, but because it would seem the ‘long night’ had not ended.
There are ghostly effects in the squiggles created by charcoal on the white and oil-splashed surface. He has arranged these effects to depict the chaos of man’s doing. I
He continues to make severe comments on social events and violence in his installations.
For instance, his Memorial and Mausoleum were prompted by the cruelty man is perpetrating on man, the destruction of the innocent and the defenseless.
His installations basically possess a sculptural tension.
In one of his more recent ones, River Carries its Past, he breaks down the traditional difference between painting and sculpture with an innovative and highly sophisticated rendering of the wall- sculpture.
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