PAINTER
Vivek Tembe
"Vivek ventures in this mysterious territory."
Increasing atomization and fashioning of ever new categories, to come across something like Vivek’s paintings, where the lines between dreams and reality blur, is to encounter a mystery. Mystery in the sense, that his work, happen rather than painted. And in this, there is poetry. It is said if there is no mystery, there is no poetry. Living in such banal reality, only hope one can have is in this sense of poetry and mystery. Vivek ventures in this mysterious territory. A fascination for water pervades all his work, whether it’s the floating sensation of a child in the umbilical fluid, or the objects floating in water. The slow movements are also akin to the dream-state. This world of water, slow movements, and a kind of fluidity of dreams are present here also. We encounter these canvasses and a sense of deja-vu assails us: these are our dreams, too. Here the time is about to come in to being, the space is fluid, and forms are about to take shape. As the observer observes, form st...
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