Overview
thus they spoke thus i speak
No virtue, penance, knowledge, self-control
A doll to turn at other’s will – I danced whirled and fell. But he filled me in every limb, with love’s mad longing –
So that I might ascend from where there is no return.
He showed his beauty and made me his’ Ah me, when shall I go to him.
Works
V. Ramesh, Akka Mahadevi, 2012
84 x 55 inchesV. Ramesh, Andal, 2013
84 x 60 inchesV. Ramesh, Be Still, 2005
48 x 96 inchesV. Ramesh, Building Castles in the Air…, 2012
96 x 54 inchesV. Ramesh, Flood my heart with your tender mercy, 2010
96 x 72 inchesV. Ramesh, Keeping Faith, 2011
120 x 96 inchesV. Ramesh, Poet Karaikalamma , 2012
96 x 67 inchesV. Ramesh, Ramana Maharishi, 2006
96 x 72 inchesV. Ramesh, Remembering Lalla Moj, 2011
96 x 72 inchesV. Ramesh, A thousand and one desires, 2003
72 x 120 inchesV. Ramesh, Untitled (Diptych), 2012
96 x 144 inchesV. Ramesh, Untitled (Diptych), 2012
84 x 108 inchesV. Ramesh, Untitled (Diptych), 2012
84 x 60 inchesV. Ramesh, Untitled, 2012
84 x 60 inchesV. Ramesh, Untitled, 2006
96 x 72 inchesV. Ramesh, Untitled, 2012
96 x 77 inchesV. Ramesh, The Poet’s Passion, 2003
48 x 36 inchesV. Ramesh, The Poet’s Passion, 2013
48 x 36 inchesV. Ramesh, The Poet’s Passion, 2013
48 x 36 inchesV. Ramesh, The Poet’s Passion, 2013
48 x 36 inchesV. Ramesh, The Poet’s Passion, 2013
48 x 36 inchesV. Ramesh, The Poet’s Passion, 2013
48 x 36 inchesV. Ramesh, The Poet’s Passion, 2013
48 x 36 inchesV. Ramesh, The Poet’s Passion, 2013
48 x 36 inches
Notes
Curatorial Note
Threshold Art Gallery is privileged to present “Voices of Remembrances Past”, a collection of significant paintings by V. Ramesh spanning the last ten years at the National Gallery of Modern Art, Bangalore. This show comes as a firm endorsement of our belief in one of the more remarkable artists to have emerged in India in the recent past.
Ramesh articulates abstract ideas of faith, devotion and metaphysics much like a musician explores ragas, creating through paint and canvas compositions that are at the same time ephemeral and densely layered in meanings and metaphors. Each series comes from extensive research and scholarship, resonating ancient texts and myths.
Art that is received and appreciated by us and art that we are moved by is validated by V. Ramesh’s oils on canvas ; his images, drawn from a repository of cultural and philosophical traditions, are yet deeply personal and accessible even as they serve as documenters and influencers of an age.
Tunty Chauhan
