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The Art

Prabhakar Kolte

Experimentation and the evolving self are the main protagonists of Prabhakar Kolte’s art. For more than six decades, he has continually experimented with the possibilities of painting, moving from form to formlessness, from object to thought, and from sound to silence. His experiments have extended beyond the canvas to unconventional materials, processes, and methods. Today, he is admired as one of the foremost abstractionists of contemporary Indian art. His paintings often employ dripping colour, concealed layers, and partially exposed surfaces to create images that resist immediate recognition and interpretation. Kolte has continued to paint for more than sixty years without allowing prevailing opinions about art or his work to determine his artistic direction.

For a poet, poetry exists not only in words but also in the space between words. In a similar way, for a painter, a painting can exist in the spaces between colours and shapes on 83