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2000
Viswanadhan
Painting
130 x 130
Viswanadhan’s paintings are spaces of tension between rigor and the circulation of energy. Inheritor of Western abstraction, particularly the modernist grid, he transforms the pictorial surface into a site of active meditation. Here, the surface is structured by a regular lattice of rectangular forms arranged in horizontal and vertical bands. The use of casein on canvas gives the artwork a matte, vibrating texture that absorbs light while allowing traces of the gesture to surface, where matter, rhythm, and temporality converge.
Graduate of the Madras College of Arts and based in Paris since the late 1960s, Viswanadhan has developed an abstract body of work informed by India’s philosophical and spiritual traditions, in dialogue with explorations of Western abstraction. His pictorial practice, grounded in gestures, repetition, and rigorous formal reduction, explores the dynamics between matter, energy, and spatiality. Through vibrating surfaces and elementary forms, his works unfold as sensitive fields of force in which time, breath, and the artist’s bodily engagement are condensed. Marked by a tension between formal rigor and a contemplative dimension, his work opens a space of meditation in which the act of painting becomes an experience that is both physical and metaphysical.
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Viswanadhan
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