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PARABLES OF PASSIONS
17-24 August 2005
Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
Innovative in his application of colours covering the surface
with frothing eddies and jewel-like coruscations of colour
Deepak Shinde with a certain restless energy tells us tales
of love and war, infatuation and regret, passion and intrigue.
He has for long been fascinated by the complex weave of human
relationships. For three decades, the play of the emotions
and the crossed textures of perception and misunderstanding
have provided him with the expressive content of his paintings.
As tight-lipped recorder, as vulnerable elegist, and also
as the curious narrator who is both participant and observer,
he has attended carefully to the attempts that individuals
make to reach one another, to share space and time.His works
reflect with a hint of satire an intense observation of associations
and interactions o life around him.
The forthcoming exhibition - The 25th solo show - at
the Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai,
brings together 21 of his recent paintings, which are cast
as fables or parables in the tradition of Vishnu Sharma, Aesop
and La Rochefoucauld: through these tableaux, Shinde assembles
for us a contemporary Panchatantra.
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