User:Vivekrao

I am a painter, sculptor and an assemblage artist, I am a gleaner a clairvoyant ,I find my treasures in alleyways and flea markets, in remnants of wood and metal, books, boxes, old paintings, all that have been discarded are interesting to me.

My Unique mixed media works tells stories of passion and anger, strength and weakness, love, hate and fear of sense and senselessness  of opaqueness and transparency ,past present and  future ,of days gone by and days in contemplation and the days beyond.

Each found object has out-lived its time and has therefore been scrapped. Dead! Perhaps!? ....But I rescue those objects and assemble them with collected items from my own present, past and for my future.

Every one of my assemblages is One Of A Kind I work with obsolescence. Mostly, there is not another of its kind. Each found piece has out-lived its time and has therefore been thrown out by someone. Because I rescue them, they live again in my art. I often let the materials that I’ve very carefully chosen and collected dictate and guide my creation, so I always incorporate ‘chance’ finds into the ongoing and organic process that is my art.

I continue to pick them up whenever I see one. I am still collecting them. I paint on them with great passion as they are transporters holding great energy and excitement for me... What is interesting is this idea of the personal found object rather than the simple random selection of the mundane or utilitarian. Recycling is the way to go for our materialistic civilization! I love the idea of incorporating our environment into the work. There is beauty in everything and I put it together so that the viewer can see it. I think that’s what makes art compelling… it’s about showing something that is very human and vulnerable in all of us, and not having (too much) fear about exposing it.

The significance of the work lies both in the creative process itself as well as in the final piece. It’s the cycle that involves recycling, recovery (or discovery), manipulation, and the alteration of found objects. Modifications and transformations can affect a thing over time, and this is the celebration of the “found” object in My art.

But... this is all a GREAT SEDUCTION.... This is art.... ...And ART IS THE CONSCIENCE OF HUMANITY. It is the responsibility of the artist to PROVOKE... and ENGAGE!

My works are a personal vision of self-discovery and recognition of the continual reinvention of myself. It is the shaping of the self through the creation of art and the development of the art through self-construction. This ongoing and evolving cycle is the essence of my work. Each painting is unique. No two can be the same because I use "found" objects that I incorporate, and many times these are one-of-a-kind items that have been either found (on the streets) or given to me. My metal, plastic and wood constructions are densely worked pieces, built up by steady accretion of various sorts of motifs on the one hand and found objects around us.

What results is a complex structure of varied surfaces and local masses, together creating a shallow but tightly or loosely calibrated structure of sculptural voids and volumes. The whole thing is painted over with layers of paint and add-on textures.

I would describe my work in these terms—

Surface and volume, mass and void - that is because I am trained as a sculptor, but my works are a culmination of SPIRITUAL and Sculptural elements. In fact one way to look at it would be as relief’s to begin with and then to see the painting-over and the measuring-out of volume and void as at once pushing the work in opposite directions: towards painting on the one hand and sculpture proper on the other. The formal tension that then results should in a definite way, modulate plastic rhythm; by which I define the structured movement of Sensuous Attention visual and tactile – here across the body of the work. There in a deliberate attempt at masking the degree of recognizeability of the objects used on the surface by painting it over.

Identifications effects rhythm of looking in two distinct ways; either by speeding the eye on its way when it returns to an already identified object or by holding it there for longer than usual as one tries to look past its ‘everyday’ identity to its formal presence, and its during this arresting of attention that my works simultaneously project a fusion of painting and sculpture and that’s what’s is so unique and arresting about my works.