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Sakti Burman’s surrealist, vibrant paintings draw from a wide variety of sources, including the artist’s own dreams and memories, the French Impressionists, as well as the poetry of Rabindranath Tagore and Charles Baudelaire.

His figurative canvases bring together a range of individually recognisable motifs which collectively create realities that are anything but recognisable. This is evident in the present lot which brings together... Sakti Burman’s surrealist, vibrant paintings draw from a wide variety of sources, including the artist’s own dreams and memories, the French Impressionists, as well as the poetry of Rabindranath Tagore and Charles Baudelaire.

His figurative canvases bring together a range of individually recognisable motifs which collectively create realities that are anything but recognisable. This is evident in the present lot which brings together three figures including that of Hanuman and a centaur in a vivid composition. Frequently referred to as an ‘alchemist of dreams’, the images on Burman’s complex, otherworldly canvases are condensed through both experience and fantasy. “Each of Sakti’s canvases looks as finished as a meticulous filigree work. He creates a chequered chromatic surface of visual splendour by means of a dense network of varied tones and textures charged in every detail with strong but disciplined aesthetic stimulation.” (Manasij Majumder, Sakti Burman: Dreamer on the Ark, Mumbai: Pundole Art Gallery, 2001, p. 10)

“Mine is an eternal quest for the line, in my search for the indefinable the line is what keeps me living. Hanuman and the Centaur, the East and the West, it becomes a confluence of many conversations. My drawings are about a practice that revolves around recreating and recasting my idea of the existence of humanity at different spaces, places and times.” - SAKTI BURMAN

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