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Solitude in My Cacophony LI

by Bhuwal Prasad
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Size: 36 x 30 inches
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Year: 2024

  • ABOUT Bhuwal Prasad

    Born in 1987 in the Azamgarh district of Uttar Pradesh, India, Bhuwal Prasad completed his B.F.A. from Banaras Hindu University in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh and M.F.A from the College of Art in Delhi. 
    From an early age, Bhuwal delved in drawing and painting, using broken lines and bright colours. During his studies, Bhuwal read several books on the Indus Valley Civilization, Indian Prehistoric Rock Art, Nazca Line in Peru, Mesopotamia Scrolls and Art, Egyptian Art and Indian Civilization and Murals. His interest deepened as he observed the broken lines, scattered colours, and faces and figures of humans, birds, animals and demons. He noted how closely related these were to his own practice. His ancestors, who belonged to tribal areas, were also known to practice this style of art.
    In the words of Johny ML, noted art curator, “Bhuwal’s works are expressionistic in nature. Bold strokes flow in automatic rhythms, capturing the mood and passion of the artist, and innumerable minute strokes and daubings are created as a part of the central image as well as that of the background. Seen from close quarters the paintings look completely abstract; they seem to be all about colours and the rhythms created by those colours. But seen from a distance, to the surprise of the viewers, figures and characters start evolving and it is interesting to see that Bhuwal does not paint any iconic and singular figures on his canvases. He pairs off people, faces, limbs, animals and birds. This is a composite world of co-existence and relationships. They are as real as reality is and as unreal as the story induced worlds.”
    “There is a fair amount of innocence in Bhuwal’s paintings. They are not directed and registered by the careful division of space or discreet application of colours. In the pictorial surface that Bhuwal considers as his cave wall, he plays with colours in a happy attempt to trace the contours of giants, beasts, demons, imps, animals and birds that he imagines to have manifested on those walls. It is, to certain extent, automatic, not so mediated by intellect but driven by the joy, fears, pangs and anxieties generated out of thoughts. However, on a deeper level, these reflections on the heard stories and assimilated narrations come out of his innate desire to find joy in whatever he depicts. Hence, these creatures of imagination do not look like fearful characters that could scare away the viewers. On the contrary, they invite the viewer to stand and stare, and indirectly the artist demands them to become once again those children who used to listen to their grandmothers’ tales in rapt attention,” writes Johny ML.

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