Artist of the Week is a special category that recognises and highlights the works of talented artists. New artists are featured each week, showcasing their unique styles, techniques, and themes. From emerging artists to established veterans, the Artist of the Week category celebrates creativity and diversity in the art world and provides a platform for artists to share their vision and voice with a wider audience.
The artist whose works we explore is a master with unlimited power who gets his ideas from the ancient history and modern culture life of Vadodara. The artist has successfully merged architectural aspects, construction patterns and detailed maps into their amazing art pieces with the end result being a fantastic reflection of old Rome.
However, while navigating through his artistic journey, an extraordinary talent of obtaining different kind of materials from various sources prevail with a strong imprint from an exceptional piece of mappings by Srinathji Nathdwara. This blending of various components in their creations makes their design a mirror of the city’s vibrant history.
This is really a great polymath and an artist who is not just successful with his painting but also has highly educated family ancestors in technically skilled works. This emphasises their utmost care in the restoration and repair of their 118 years old traditionally built house, a proof of their resolute dedication to safeguarding their roots.
The artist’s inventiveness also translates into designing Tazias (funerary effigies) for Moharram—which are often extremely complex and stunningly executed. Such multitalented can prove to be good at combining engineering and artistry.
It captures and expresses the visual meaning of Vadodara and its symbols of the artist’s main interest. Space as modernity in contemporary architecture they desire to rethink and refresh conventional approach to this city of changing urban environment.
Their portfolio includes the “Vadodara Series”, “Makan ki kheti”, “Prakash in shodh”, the “Black series” as well as the “Chiristhayi”. Each piece presents a deep sense of connection with the environment of the artist.In the last instance, this artist wants to reassess city planning with consideration of different aspects of culture, society, politics and economy, since the cities grow on and only forests shrank… Indeed, such is the artwork that remains as witness to the preservation of Vadodara’s heritage and reinventing it for new times in an area of constant changing landscapes.
Shiv Kumar Swami is the Master of Exaggeration and Reflection
Iftikar Ahmed is a New Delhi-based art writer & researcher.
