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“During the early stages of my life and growth as an artist, dealing with the human form was my dominant concern. Each new figure on my canvas presented a new aesthetic problem, which I set out to solve. After a while, I found myself questioning the boundaries that an artist tends to impose on himself.”

Sachin Karne was born in Pune in 1965, where he received his first Diploma in drawing and painting from the Abhinav Kala...
“During the early stages of my life and growth as an artist, dealing with the human form was my dominant concern. Each new figure on my canvas presented a new aesthetic problem, which I set out to solve. After a while, I found myself questioning the boundaries that an artist tends to impose on himself.”

Sachin Karne was born in Pune in 1965, where he received his first Diploma in drawing and painting from the Abhinav Kala Mahavidyalaya in 1987. In 1988, Karne completed another Diploma in art education at the Sir J. J. School of Art, Mumbai. He then went on to complete a Post Diploma in creative painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts, M. S. University, Baroda, in 1982. Karne also has a course in graphic art to his credit, but painting and sculpture continue to be the focal points of his body of work. He joined his alma mater a year after he graduated as a lecturer.

Karne’s works, either oils or watercolors, reflect his concerns – the artist has been constantly dealing with, and struggling against the constraints he finds imposed on himself as an artist. “Why should I embroil myself in arguments like whether I should do figurative or non figurative paintings? Is it necessary to choose? I sought to free myself from these constraints,” he says.

So while his earlier works were mainly figurative, he has turned to abstract images in the recent years. His works deals with the powerful undercurrent that governs a man`s world. In his use of colors and symbols, that serve more like icons, you can imagine a human who refuses to be cowed down by terror. "My curiosity is piqued by the way certain objects are given a certain sanctity, while others remain ignored," he points out. Elements that form a part of daily existence are the same that creep into the corner and crevices of the canvas he paints. He uses colors that are strong and resilient.

Karne has exhibited widely in India, and has had solo exhibitions of his works at Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, in 2007, 2005, 2003 and 1999; Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, in 2003; and Gallery 7, Mumbai, in 1997. His works have also been featured in several group exhibitions at the Sans Tache Gallery, Mumbai, in 2008; the National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai and New Delhi, and Victoria Memorial Hall, Kolkata, in 2007; the Guild Gallery, Mumbai in 1998 and 1999; and Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, in 2007, 2003, 2002 and 2000. He was awarded a Junior Fellowship by the Human Resource Development Ministry, in 2000-02 and was an artist in residence at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, in 2002 -03. The artist lives and works in Baroda.

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