Gulammohammed Sheikh and Geeta Kapur speak on the opening of the Jeram Patel retrospective at KNMA
by Gulammohammed Sheikh: How to speak about a person you have known for 60 years and have followed literally everything that is on display here. How do you speak about the man or the person behind those works, the friend who knew sometimes fell out with, sometimes patched up with and also had great
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by Critical Collective “When we burn something like this, or peel a colour pigment from the canvas, or scratch something on the paper or canvas, we are not destroying, but in the process of creating something.”
When Jeram Patel presented a blow torch on wood work at the inaugural exhibition of Group 1890, he made a powerful
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by Soumitra Das Published in The Telegraph, Saturday, February 5, 2011
It needs an artist of the stature of the Baroda-based artist, Jeram Patel, to reinvigorate abstract art, which is a spent force today. His exhibition, Recent Works of Jeram Patel (till February 26), at the Harrington
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by Nibha Joshi A strong atavistic current runs in a plenary manner through the drives of man, basically a creature of hard won evolutionary trends. These wicked histories in contrast to the pure space of the truly ideational burn into the work of Jeram Patel. How does such an artist express himself? This timely regret
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by Prayag Shukla Jeram Patel’s art has always been ‘against interpretation’, and by its very nature has constantly repulsed any attempt to define and describe it, in terms of locating it in any specific context. This, then, can be attributed to the very characteristics of his kind of art, where the verbal and visual
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by Prayag Shukla The edges sharp as a knife and the images fluid as water, enhance our perception while we look at these new and enchanting works of Jeram Patel. The colours such as reds, greens etc. Also appear in between or penetrate through the black masses only to heighten our perception further. In the works
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