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“Tyeb’s figures work themselves into a pattern of focal images: pared, stripped-down, even soundless, yet powerfully resonant, they embody an artist’s intuitions concerning his neighbours, his compatriots, his fellow prisoners in the nation-state and on the planet, people who must live and work, love and fight, agonise and enjoy themselves within the same habitus…Tyeb’s focal images are symptomatic of their lifeworld: they attest to the churning... “Tyeb’s figures work themselves into a pattern of focal images: pared, stripped-down, even soundless, yet powerfully resonant, they embody an artist’s intuitions concerning his neighbours, his compatriots, his fellow prisoners in the nation-state and on the planet, people who must live and work, love and fight, agonise and enjoy themselves within the same habitus…Tyeb’s focal images are symptomatic of their lifeworld: they attest to the churning chaos of Indian society, its antinomies of eroticism and violence, aggression and tenderness, helplessness and brute force. Magisterial as they are, dominating the spaces they occupy, these presences are nevertheless first and foremost figures of crisis” (Ranjit Hoskote, “Images of Transcendence: Towards a New Reading of Tyeb Mehta’s Art”, Tyeb Mehta: Ideas Images Exchanges, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, 2005, p. 15).

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