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Ma茂t茅 Delteil & Sakti Burman: In a Grain of Sand
Art Musings presents a rare treat for art lovers in the city of Mumbai, with their next exhibition 鈥榠n a Grain of Sand鈥�, featuring recent works of Ma茂t茅 Delteil and Sakti Burman, accomplished artists whose long trajectories have taken them across continents and cultures, and who continue to dedicate themselves to their image-making practice, both of them well into their tenth decade.
Delicate and fragile, these luminous works by Ma茂t茅 and Sakti hold us enthralled with their exquisite attention to detail. Subjects that have fascinated both the artists throughout their career are rendered once again 鈥� but 鈥� this time in miniature; paintings hardly an inch or three in size.
To quote from the catalogue essay by cultural theorist Ranjit Hoskote,
鈥淲hat jewels are these? What scintillations animate these miniature surfaces?
Ma茂t茅 relays the radiant fecundity of her groves and orchards into the smallest of frames here, and yet these trees and shrubs compel and amaze us as though they were much larger in the spread of their foliage and fruit. We join, with Ma茂t茅, both in a nostalgia for the lost landscapes of childhood and an elegy to the ecologies being violated by our rapacity.
Sakti invokes the dramatis personae that have long played their part on the stage of his painterly imagination. Here the harlequin, the boy-god, the denizens of Noah鈥檚 Ark, summon our attention even though they may well be stamp-sized. With their childlike expressiveness, the eyes of Sakti鈥檚 protagonists convey, even in these brief strokes, that elusive combination of sensual delight and pensive repose which is his emotional forte.
Look with love and admiration on these paintings, dear viewer. Each of these artists offers us the experience and insight, the wry wisdom and perennially renewed energy of nearly a century. These are gifts that Ma茂t茅 and Sakti have distilled for us from the turbulent flux of time, and we are blessed, illuminated and revitalised in the act of receiving them.鈥�
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Art Musings presents a rare treat for art lovers in the city of Mumbai, with their next exhibition 鈥榠n a Grain of Sand鈥�, featuring recent works of Ma茂t茅 Delteil and Sakti Burman, accomplished artists whose long trajectories have taken them across continents and cultures, and who continue to dedicate themselves to their image-making practice, both of them well into their tenth decade.
Delicate and fragile, these luminous works by Ma茂t茅 and Sakti hold us enthralled with their exquisite attention to detail. Subjects that have fascinated both the artists throughout their career are rendered once again 鈥� but 鈥� this time in miniature; paintings hardly an inch or three in size.
To quote from the catalogue essay by cultural theorist Ranjit Hoskote,
鈥淲hat jewels are these? What scintillations animate these miniature surfaces?
Ma茂t茅 relays the radiant fecundity of her groves and orchards into the smallest of frames here, and yet these trees and shrubs compel and amaze us as though they were much larger in the spread of their foliage and fruit. We join, with Ma茂t茅, both in a nostalgia for the lost landscapes of childhood and an elegy to the ecologies being violated by our rapacity.
Sakti invokes the dramatis personae that have long played their part on the stage of his painterly imagination. Here the harlequin, the boy-god, the denizens of Noah鈥檚 Ark, summon our attention even though they may well be stamp-sized. With their childlike expressiveness, the eyes of Sakti鈥檚 protagonists convey, even in these brief strokes, that elusive combination of sensual delight and pensive repose which is his emotional forte.
Look with love and admiration on these paintings, dear viewer. Each of these artists offers us the experience and insight, the wry wisdom and perennially renewed energy of nearly a century. These are gifts that Ma茂t茅 and Sakti have distilled for us from the turbulent flux of time, and we are blessed, illuminated and revitalised in the act of receiving them.鈥�
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