GANESH HALOI

Ganesh Haloi’s style cannot be defined by a single quintessential style, a wide range of pictorial variants and strategies, mediums and techniques mark his oeuvre. He neither claims to be a landscape painter nor a pure abstractionist. Alluding to the impulses of the environment—flood, breeze, or maybe the act of crossing the river, are all captured through a visual poetics in his early works. Over the years Haloi’s artistic preoccupations have concreted around re-composing land, reinterpreting nature through the unspoken verses of the sky and the water, through interchangeability of form and space.

In his minimalistic works, one can register an orchestration of formal elements laid out not for simple delectation but for posing new problems. Interpretation of colour pigment on paper with the complex methods of layering them on the surface, appear as explorations he made in a playfully decentred world. With more than hundred artworks on display, this exhibition is a curatorial weave, evoking Haloi’s inscape of shifting configurations and vantage points not limited to his engrossment in capturing the untranslatability of experience, which ceaselessly gains forms within the flow of time. Renowned for his gouache on paper colour terrains, Haloi’s command on Chinese ink drawings on Japanese scroll paper along with linear minimalistic drawings with ink, tempera works on board, and works on Ajanta will embellish the exhibition.