The Art by Dr Ved Prakash Bhardwaj - HTML preview

The Art

the human in every animal. In this sense, Jeram Patel seems to be searching for a kind of biological truth. His forms often resemble animated images floating in the air. There is no clearly defined surface or ground in his paintings; everything appears to be suspended in an empty space.

Those whom we regard as human beings,

and from whom we expect humane behaviour, can

suddenly appear before us as man-eaters. This does not merely expose the darker realities of Indian society; it also evokes the disturbing reality of the international political landscape, revealing a face that is often concealed beneath the surface of civilization.

In this way, Jeram Patel’s works open up possibilities for numerous discourses. One of the marks of a great artist is precisely this ability to allow viewers to generate multiple interpretations and conversations around the between the visible and invisible, between reality and work. Art can transform the viewer from an existing its illusion, into focus.

state of consciousness into another psychological and He refused to accept the limitations imposed

sensory state. Patel’s work possesses this quality in a by medium, fixed style, or easy simplification. His particularly powerful way.

desire to remain independent also liberates the forms One of the defining characteristics of his art

that emerge in his work. His figures often seem to float is the dynamism of his forms. Whatever kind of form or fly in space. Although they remain connected to one he creates—whether it evokes the human figure or the another, they retain their individual freedom.

shape of an animal or bird—it never appears lifeless.

There are also numerous motifs from folk art within his There is always a sense of life and movement within forms, but they do not appear in their original forms.

it. Many artists who work primarily in a figurative Patel reworked them through his own distinctive visual mode and create highly vivid, almost photographic language, giving them new identities that bring them representations are nevertheless unable to bring into closer to contemporary contexts.

their work the inner movement of life that Jeram Patel By bringing form and formlessness together,

achieves through remarkably minimal means.

Patel’s works also free the viewer from the constraints of Patel himself referred to his ink works on paper preconceived experience and predetermined meaning.

as “drawings.” Yet it does not seem entirely adequate to They do not impose a single interpretation. Instead, call them merely drawings, because they are complete they awaken the viewer and encourage movement and independent paintings in their own right. In his toward new experiences and new meanings. In this works—particularly those made with enamel paint on sense, Jeram Patel’s art is not merely an exploration of wood—we sometimes encounter forms resembling form; it is also a process of transforming the way we toy puzzles, while in the drawings, alongside puzzle-see and experience reality.

like structures, we also find images suggesting

This is perhaps the great strength of his art. With fragmentation or dismemberment of the human body.

minimal materials and limited visual means, Jeram Many forms in Patel’s work seem at one moment Patel creates a world in which the boundaries between completely familiar and at another as though they have form and formlessness, familiarity and unfamiliarity, emerged from an unknown world. His is a world of reality and illusion, stillness and movement, and familiarity and unfamiliarity, where imagination and human and animal remain constantly fluid. His art reality coexist. Reality is not merely what is visible.

does not end with a conclusion; it leaves the viewer What remains unseen can sometimes constitute a within an experience where meanings continue to larger and more profound reality. What appears before emerge and change.

our eyes may, in fact, be an illusion of reality rather Perhaps, therefore, Jeram Patel’s art does not exist than reality itself. Jeram Patel’s art brings this tension simply between form and formlessness. It exists at the point where the two become one.

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