Niytee Shinde

Satish Wavare’s graphic portrayal in black ink and acrylic, of what seems crushing, surging orbs and planes remind me of an odyssey that grows lighter and even more meaningful as it settles on the canvas. These intriguing abstracts with a Zen-like vision seemingly born out of deceptively easy process encode sensuous messages through a graphic portrayal. They are mysterious and spiritual and celebrate the impulse of creativity. To the casual eye they seem a celebration of the banality of accidental couplings, intercoursing and merging of lines and splashes. Yet these fractal-like entitles hold and contain an affluence of sexual innuendoes. 

They create a landscape of desire in that infinite time zone. They remind me of what Aristotle said about seeking the inner significance of art. Undoubtedly Satish Wavare’s recent works celebrate the purity of minimalists. His work is a discovery of self. Individual responses are like a rhetoric in the confessional. Each disclosed or discovered form is a gauge to the destiny of the aesthetic lining that holds and lines our beings. It is in a way a test to our artistic sensitivities. 

Landscape of desire in tome holds manifold entries to Wavare’s work. While desire and time seem to be the key components- it is the landscape, the span of the stain on the canvas negotiating with the residual space that holds a valid truth. The reality of a pure uninhabited space in an uneven true time space brings together a sensuous idealism. 

This exhibition can literally be counted as Wavare’s first exhibition. His first not in a factual sense but  because it counts as one of his most important works counting him one among very serious painters who have trod a challenging path speaking volumes with the tremulousness of a mere line, a parsimonious dot or a quivering splash.

Lansdowne Gallery and Turmeric Earth are pleased to be associated with the exhibition. I thank Satish Wavare for the exhibition and Jai Bhandarkar and all at Lansdowne Gallery for believing and willingly collaborating. Thanks are also due to Ketanbhai at Reproscan for his patience and understanding.

Niytee Shinde -TURMERIC EARTH