PAINTER
"I saw this as a way of transporting the Idea of the living stones to Canada since you can’t really transport the physical reality. But then, in a creative moment, I had an exciting inspiration. Why not start with the photographs and enhance them, in a sense turning three-dimensional objects into two-dimensional artworks"
Indo-Canadian artist Panchal Mansaram has lived in Canada for over 30 years now. But he has kept in touch with his homeland by often visiting his native Rajasthan. During these visits, he imbibes pulsating energy its sites and sound. These formulate ideas for his works.
Artist Biodata
For the past six years, Mansaram has been intrigued by a group of natural rock formations on a family property in Mount Abu. He calls it "Mansaram's Art on the Rocks. Mansaram has used rock formations as a surface to create Mixed media. He draws and sketches strange hieroglyphs and figures on the massive boulders and outcroppings. The drawings on the rocks have been documented with photographs which were donated, a few years ago, to the Royal Ontario Museum's Department of Mineralogy.
using all of the advanced technology available to him - xerography, laser graph printing and digital manipulation, as well as traditional art practices such as collage, oil painting and drawing - Mansaram has transformed the photographs into elaborately reworked images. The astonishing artworks are as re-structured, layered, fragmented and colourful, as the complex civilization that forms their source. It also resulted in a two-man show on the same theme with American artist Arthur Secunda.
Artworks
The Dhoomimal name is now touching eighty-five years of promoting contemporary Indian art, in this capacity a flagship enterprise within the fraternity, having witnessed the evolution and growth of art and art institutions from their very inception within the country.