Satish Gujral
(1925 - 2020)
Untitled
During his time in Mexico on a scholarship, Satish Gujral came to a new understanding of medium while assisting Diego Rivera on his mural at Teatro de los Insurgentes, which Rivera made with the then new medium of acrylic and glass mosaic. The artist has said, “This experience influenced my later searches for material other than paint.” (Gayatri Sinha, “Satish Gujral: A Singular Journey”, Dipa Chaudhuri ed., Satish Gujral: An Artography, ...
During his time in Mexico on a scholarship, Satish Gujral came to a new understanding of medium while assisting Diego Rivera on his mural at Teatro de los Insurgentes, which Rivera made with the then new medium of acrylic and glass mosaic. The artist has said, “This experience influenced my later searches for material other than paint.” (Gayatri Sinha, “Satish Gujral: A Singular Journey”, Dipa Chaudhuri ed., Satish Gujral: An Artography, 2006, p. 14)A Brush with Life, he writes lucidly about the difficulty of reception that every change of material and form evoked, from painting to murals to sculpture to paper collages to architecture… He speaks of ‘the recurrence of those phases of depression’ that preceded each change of medium. If Gujral remained undaunted it was because of his eclectic training at the Mayo School and in Mexico, as well as his own conviction in his potential.” (Sinha, p. 14)
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Satish Gujral Untitled
Signed in Devnagari and dated '77' (faintly visible, centre right and lower left); bearing Dhoomimal Gallery label (on the stretcher bar on the reverse)
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EXHIBITEDOutliers, Rebels, Disruptors: Delhi Silpi Chakra, 70 Years On , New Delhi: Dhoomimal Gallery, 10 April - 31 July 202188 Years - 88 Masterpieces , New Delhi: Rabindra Bhavan, Lalit Kala Akademi in association with Dhoomimal Gallery, 25 January - 2 February 2024Confluence: Eighty Years of Artists and Their Art , New Delhi: Dhoomimal Gallery (illustrated)88 Years - 88 Masterpieces: Master’s Artworks , New Delhi: Dhoomimal Gallery, 2024, p. 36 (illustrated)
Category: Painting
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