Photograph of Artist PANKAJ KUMAR SINGH
PANKAJ KUMAR SINGH
New Delhi, - India



Original Artworks (3)

Pankaj Kumar Singh; Untitled 1, 2013, Original Mixed Media, 72 x 50 inches. Artwork description: 241    Nature has many hues both inside and out, the magic of its mysteries and fascinations unravelling marvellously as one probe. Though vehement in denying my woks to be abstract in their intent, my oeuvre may well be termed as non- figurative in its essence. Beginning with putting ...
Pankaj Kumar Singh
Original Mixed Media, 2013
72 x 50 inches (182.9 x 127.0 cm)
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Pankaj Kumar Singh; Untitled 11, 2015, Original Mixed Media, 66 x 36 inches. Artwork description: 241   Nature has many hues both inside and out, the magic of its mysteries and fascinations unravelling marvellously as one probe. Though vehement in denying my woks to be abstract in their intent, my oeuvre may well be termed as non- figurative in its essence. Beginning with putting ...
Pankaj Kumar Singh
Original Mixed Media, 2015
66 x 36 inches (167.6 x 91.4 cm)
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Pankaj Kumar Singh; Untitled 22, 2015, Original Mixed Media, 50 x 50 inches. Artwork description: 241  Nature has many hues both inside and out, the magic of its mysteries and fascinations unravelling marvellously as one probe. Though vehement in denying my woks to be abstract in their intent, my oeuvre may well be termed as non- figurative in its essence. Beginning with putting ...
Pankaj Kumar Singh
Original Mixed Media, 2015
50 x 50 inches (127.0 x 127.0 cm)
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Artist Statement

Nature has long served as an inspiration for, subject of or allegory to artistic depiction. So it is with myself. Born in a farming family, I carry inseparable memories of lush green cultivated land all around me, as also impressions of the layered imagery of nature that permeated my range of vision as a child. BFA and MFA at Varanasi taught me to translate these impressions into art.

Nature has many hues both inside and out, the magic of its mysteries and fascinations unravelling marvellously as one probe. Though vehement in denying my woks to be abstract in their intent, my oeuvre may well be termed as non-figurative in its essence.

Beginning with putting down a core idea or memory, of some particular layered perspective of nature, then I proceed to build it up layer by layer, cutting, stitching, pasting as I goes, the cutting and joining signifying the continuity of nature in destruction and growth.

Going through my canvasses one by one underlines the belief that aesthetic experience cannot be reduced to pleasure in the sense of mere distracting amusement. While at the artworks may provide a haven for the emotions, i do contain a certain realm of unbridled truth nevertheless., for clearly, my whole function of representing/interpreting nature seems to oscillate between its significance as a total realm of being outside or beyond human intentions and its status as a series of perceived environments outside the self, where particular entities evolve within explicit nonhuman contexts.

As was originally true of both European and American abstract arts, I makes evident, though perhaps not intentionally so, the basic unifying characteristic in my move towards eliminating representational subject matter from my formal concerns. In some cases, however, my pictorial strategies have retained variants or vestiges of recognisable imagery, as of flowers, buds, plants, and even certain animal and bird forms. So far my aim has remained to achieve a purely non-mimetic pictorial language, the recognisable used only as motifs to texture and fulfil a conceived design.

The visual potency of my compositions and the challenges my subjects myself to in the process of making them, manifest, and even go to exemplify, Schopenhauer’s notion of the expressive will. As the name implies, the relevant aesthetic virtue is expressive will, and its pictorial exposition functions to make public the realm of primal, non-conventional meanings hidden within the artistic psyche.

Works of art, even when imitating the beauty of nature foster spiritual progress. One makes such progress through acquaintance of beautiful things to beautiful acts and, then, to beauty itself as it shines through the pure primal soul. That power which makes the soul indivisible, touches things of nature too, suffusing all with beauty as light dispels the dark.
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