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Mirage Solo Show India Habitet Center, Delhi

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Mirage Solo Show India Habitet Center, Delhi

July 29th, 2015 - New Delhi, Ncr, ha

The abstract in the everyday

Jayashree Narayanan, July 29, 2015, DHNS

Painting naturally

Mirage’ encapsulates a variety of meanings just as it captures different aspects of life on the canvas. Paintings ranging from the river Ganges to the unending ‘race for success’ and to the divinities of the Hindu religion, adorn the walls of the Convention Centre Foyer at India Habitat Centre.

The solo show depicts the everyday through abstract representations.

Punekar, 36, originally from Pune and settled in Faridabad is an art teacher by profession. He tells Metrolife, “I am painting since the last 10 years. But I started creating abstract paintings only for the last one-and-a-half years. It is my fifth or sixth solo show.”

Having procured a Masters degree in Fine Arts, he says, “Most of my work is inspired from and related to nature. But what I make is in the abstract form that we don’t generally notice.” he adds, “I have given the title, ‘Mirage’, which means seeming to be present but is not when you see it upfront. That is abstract, for me.”

The artist mentions that his dreams are the reason why he paints.

“While nobody believes that dreams can make me paint, but I do in fine colours, because I have colourful dreams that I try and justify on paper.” Punekar explains to Metrolife, “Take for instance, the Ganges painting. The hair of Ganga has been shown with the river flowing by and the cities that have developed near the banks. The polluted waters have also been depicted. This is our motherland, and we need to save it at any cost. Sometimes, things just click, from the view to the colours and I have tried to put it as much I could. I don’t repeat even the finest lines on my art and…I can’t.”

“I am a one-time painter as I draw by accident. I cannot draw the same painting again even if I want to,” he says, adding, that he believes that it is “god-gifted” and gives him an edge over the others.

Meanwhile, the centre of the exhibition, the four paintings combined into one showing the horses, sun, moon and human’s reflective form, stand as the highlight.

“I have tried to show the race for success by depicting a horse. Horse is powerful while the sun and moon are the ultimate symbols of everyday and the human’s perspective of his life. It is a layer by layer work which can also stand individually and yet signify completeness,” says a content Punekar.

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