ArtistPavankumar'ssurroundingshavebeenmajorinspirationand its reflections have transformed into his works. His studio is surroundedbyalotofcarpentryshopsandthisconstantexposure
to the left over wooden blocks attracted him to juggle with them and create a few paper weights in a playful process. It was the starting of a new medium- to explore and now it's been his journey of 18 years enjoying every bit of it. The challenges of selecting, assembling, engraving and the painting the unknown geometric into known organic forms, in process incorporating the corporate societyhasaltogetherbeenveryadventurousforhim.
Since then, the works have grown and transformed into refined structures .The possibility of enhancing the natural reeds or grains of the wood induces an aesthetic value and adds a distinct character to the individual forms .As they are foundforms,theartisthasthefreedomtoidentifyandexploreeachforminanew way without any preconception in a spontaneous process. With time text, icons and motifs have become an integral part of his works. Text is a powerful tool and no one understands that better than artist who thoughtfully utilizes text to communicate their artistic expression. The artist primary concern is the form and ideation and he pushes forth letters and words as his secondary means to project his message. He also introduced subdued coloursalongwiththeideation-withplayofforms.Hisworksgobeyondbeingjustapaperweightoramere pieceofart.Thetextondifferentphasesoftheassemblageunfoldsinambiguityleavinganopenendtothe viewerstointerprettheformsdifferentlyeverytimetheyseeit.Hisartpracticeisabreakthroughinnotionof cravingsculptures-toretainingthefoundtexturesorformandreinterpretingitbyminimalexecution.
Artist passion of creating these assemblages was to bring art close to common man and sensitize the world around.As, the world we live in today is made up of concrete or plastic ,the artist aims at bringing backthevaluesofbeingclosetonaturethroughhishandyexpressionofart.
Pavankumarisaversatileartist
SWETACHANDRA,ArtistHyderabad andhassimultaneouslyworkedonbothrealisticandonobjectsthat are used in everyday life. Talking about his inclination towards realistic depiction from being abstract in his style of expression, Pavan elaborates, “Actually, my themes still remains ordinary but are executed in a contemporary style.” While his abstract works create an essence of harmony in the forms and thought process. The realistic works bring forth the forms in their known and well-defined attributes. His use of texture, text and form in transparent layers brings in a visual tactile quality. Through his play of the realistic approachandabstractrenderingheconnectsdirectlyandinstantlywiththeviewers.
IconcludebyquotingLeonardoDaVinci--“Theartistseeswhatothersonlycatchaglimpseof”. AndartistPavankumartrulyjustifiesthisquote.
SURVIVOR 'Pavan Kumar D' & his artistic devices
Triggered by nature simulations, heuristic affects, intuitive praxis, and visual primers, artist educatorPavan'sframeofreferenceisloadedwithmemorytracesintimeandspace.Inthe
process of marking drawings for the current series, he pays deliberate attention to the appearance of human interference in his chain of thought and patterns getting raptured by interventions, dismissals, and presence transferred to lines, compositional proximity, and tonal textures. In a coalescence of circularity with nonlinear occurrences of mundane. His art renders and registers contradictions, dismissal, and corporeality with sensual and profane. He feels and celebrateshisfamilyritualsof Brahmanicallineageasinformantsintohisshadeofartisticwilland creative attitude for combining, joining, and gathering assemblies as well as diving into an approach for searching add-ons to the ordinary. While dictating his narrative-building methods, branching off his art making process, he admits to producing fragments from a grandeur. To an outsideritcomesacrossassomesortofholismforthephenomenologyofananthropocenecalled man,initsprocessofbeing—'abeingofself-awareness.'
He consciously operates as craftily as possible to not reduce, subtract, or carve out a sculpture but assemble conjoined pieces and found shapes, glued or fitted together and refined as per his personal aesthetic parameter. In my view, Pawan Kumar D has successfully demonstrated through this recent exposition of his select drawings and table sculptures a conformity for how lucid the barriers of artistic modes and medium become for an art practitioner of his calibre. His table pieces for corporate settings are some painted objects meant for holding, cuddling, or kissing, or, to be precise, for fulfilling personal intimacies. His drawing bridges over the gap between taking impressions (often confined to printed images in popular understanding) and surface paints of children's toys of folk origins. In his journey, he breaks mental barriers and favoursvisualsaviourswhilechallengingnorms,taboos,andstandardsinvisuality.
Believinghimselfasastorymaker,hisvisualnarrativebuildsitselfupontexturesrendered through obtaining impressions from a range of objects varying from award shields in his custody, craft objects from his collection, or anything that appeals to his eyes—from natural surfaces of things he happens to encounter or deliberately peek through. These impressions thus get embedded and transform into short visual tales and narrative blinks, much of which is encoded withsignalsandsignifiersofvariablesuggestions—advertisinglanguagebeingoneofthem.This open-threaded mesh of 'attention' networks into symbolic tributes to the divine guidance and unseen support that help him glide through the immense pool of information. This support structure personifies, through his pen and ink and wooden blocks into figures embodying
elongated limbs and distorted eyes, allowing him clarity in vision, translating "possible" from impossibilityandunwanted—acommonality(inhiswords)whichheattributestohumanstruggle andsurvival.
Allow yourself to immerse in this encapsulating amalgamation of daydreaming, glitches, andpixelsofgestaltianproximity,continuity,andvisualframesfromaSURVIVOR'svisualdiary.A conscious departure from reality into other planes of existence—a well-planned and wellexecutedexcursion.
08 January 2025
