Important Notice

"The landscape has no boundaries." - AKBAR PADAMSEE

The present lot is indicative of Akbar Padamsee's continuing exploration of the stillness and structure of the landscape, which he terms Metascapes. "Meta means 'beyond' and these landscapes transcend conventions and look beyond norms of reality and style." (Artist quoted in Dnyaneshwar Nadkarni, "The Mirror Never Lies," Mumbai: Times Of India, 18 November 1994)... "The landscape has no boundaries." - AKBAR PADAMSEE

The present lot is indicative of Akbar Padamsee's continuing exploration of the stillness and structure of the landscape, which he terms Metascapes. "Meta means 'beyond' and these landscapes transcend conventions and look beyond norms of reality and style." (Artist quoted in Dnyaneshwar Nadkarni, "The Mirror Never Lies," Mumbai: Times Of India, 18 November 1994) In the composition of the present lot, one can find the underlying structure and careful construction which defines Padamsee's methodical way of "observing" the landscape. He creates, through his favourite juxtapositions of cadmium and orange, complemented by browns and blues, a mountainous landscape that is at once real and surreal. Metascapes continue to be a distinct part of Padamsee's meticulously structured vocabulary. Constantly experimenting with colour, form and structure, these paintings are imbued with an almost hallucinatory calm. They offer no points for reference, making it deliberately difficult to understand scale or to locate the foreground. It is their luminosity which enables a transcendence of notions of time and space.

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