Important Notice

In Nataraj Sharma’s early figurative canvases, every moment is one of great discovery. Focused on urban life, and inspired by the city of Bangalore, these paintings are packed with city dwellers at work and at rest. Sharma’s project, however, is to dramatize the mundane and find the peace and delight in moments otherwise taken for granted. In these pieces, the artist pauses and magnifies transient moments of pleasure in the metropolis,... In Nataraj Sharma’s early figurative canvases, every moment is one of great discovery. Focused on urban life, and inspired by the city of Bangalore, these paintings are packed with city dwellers at work and at rest. Sharma’s project, however, is to dramatize the mundane and find the peace and delight in moments otherwise taken for granted. In these pieces, the artist pauses and magnifies transient moments of pleasure in the metropolis, transporting his subjects from their daily grind to an almost-magical plane of contentment. In the present lot, for example, Sharma paints one of the city’s most common rush-hour scenes: a bus chockfull of people either making their way to work, or returning from a full day at work. Yet, this is not a hot and bothered crowd. The artist does not capture the pushing and shoving, but instead focuses on the happy reveries into which the passengers have drifted.

Read More
Artist Profile
Other works of this artist in: this auction  |  entire site