Jyothibasu
Jyothibasu |
The works of Jyothibasu have a special tone. They are full of sounds. Whether done on paper or on canvas, Jyothibasu in his pictorial surfaces explores the sounds from an inner scape. He harks to the inner voices and tries to translate them into visual images. These exteriorized monologues permit and limit the narrative nature, which was predominant in his works during his formative years.
Jyothibasu has found out a landscape in his works. In his canvases they look as if viewed from an even ground. When it comes to the paper works, they are viewed from a higher ground. One gets a bird’s eye view of the land, where minimal figures of human beings and objects transform into harmonious forms. He deliberately uses mutant minimal forms, both organic and inorganic, and they are charged up with an erotic feeling.
Some of the works look like totem poles and in actuality they are the dead trees, as if they are the decaying monuments of a glorious past, seen abundant in an abandoned landscape. In their silence they look like colourful ghosts, trying to tell stories to the onlooker. Jyothibasu gives them voice by incorporating Malayalam scripts and phrases in the ensemble of imageries.
Jyothibasu would like to call himself as a slow painter. The act of painting, for him is a part of an ongoing process, in which he reinvents himself by listening to music, undertaking rigorous traveling, meeting people and keeping a spiritual high. “Painting is a junction for me. I reach a junction. Then from there I decide to travel on. Each decision is very important and one has to listen to the inner voices than the outer pointers,” says Jyothibasu. |
