Your shopping cart is empty

Register

CARBON SERIES - UNO Canvas Print
CARBON SERIES - UNO Canvas Print
CARBON SERIES - UNO Canvas Print
  • Description

    Our desire for certainly and excesses will not make us happy. Being confronted with too many options and a desire for perfection will make you miserable. More is always not better. As an extreme example of choice, if you wanted to go for dinner and asked my opinion, you will go nuts if I gave you fifty options. "Logic suggests that having options allows people to select precisely what makes them happiest. But, as studies show, abundant choice often makes for misery". The Tyranny of Choice: - Scientific American Mind December 2004

    This CARBON COLLECTION started as an experiment to depart from my usual style of vibrant colours and brown monochromes. Many of my artworks have a black background. With this series I want to challenge my viewers' perspective by choosing an unusual composition with elimination of colours.

    “Autonomy and Freedom of choice are critical to our well-being, and choice is critical to freedom and autonomy. Nonetheless, though modern Americans have more choice than any group of people ever has before, and thus, presumably, more freedom and autonomy, we don't seem to be benefiting from it psychologically.”

    — quoted from Ch.5, The Paradox of Choice, 2004 by American psychologist Barry Schwartz

    "I’ve been 40 years discovering that the queen of all colors was black," said Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Today we are surrounded by black objects. Almost of printed text is black. Display devices (mobiles, TVs, computers, etc) almost always use black text Black helps in bringing out the contrasts, makes differentiation so easy. Its provocative and powerful and at often times sweet. Remember Audrey Hepburn’s minimalist black Givenchy dress, worn in the movie Breakfast at Tiffany’s.


    Black was one of the earliest colours used in art. Also used in the majority of sketches. Was one of the first colours used in art. Prehistoric artists natural materials to create a black pigment that they then used to paint on cave walls. This steer from the Lascaux Caves in France was painted more than 17,000 years ago and in black. Greeks painted black silhouettes on clay pottery. Later, they modified the technique to paint red figures on black backgrounds. These “red figure” and “black figure” vases were signed by their makers, making them the first signed pieces of art in history. Ink painting, silhouettes, etc are all predominantly black. The list goes on.

    I have endeavoured to show the joys of simplicity and how much calmness it can give you. To look at objects at its singularity and dive deep to get the inner meaning. Here the choices were eliminated and my work is presented in its singularity with it perceived meaning. One colour? Just black. But is black a colour? – or is it actually the absence of colour? Here the message is truly with a singular colour with patterns. The art work is gloss varnished to bring out the textured patters. The artwork is best viewed when placed against a non- white background. Cool colours bring out the details of the textures and warm colours show the contrast of the art work in its totality.

    I have had mixed reactions to this collection which are extremely polarised. Artists, photographers, collectors and creative folks had a lot to see in these works and it got their attention. Very glad with the response. Others did not care much and both reactions are important for me. This has been the boldest and most adventurous work I have attempted. The CARBON COLLECTION has been a result of deliberate planning, introspection and dollops of reckless thinking.

 

img

Added to cart successfully!