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In The Garden of Sumeru by Amit Ambalal

In The Garden of Sumeru by Amit Ambalal

January 24, 2025 – March 1, 2025


Artworks in Exhibition


In the lush landscape of the imagination, Amit Ambalal’s expansive practice includes animals, birds and bees and of course humans. In inverse proportion to his earlier series, in the present works we have a plethora of animals including household ones like his pet dog Dusky. His paintings personify everyday characters with a diverse visual language which carry unusual and often quirky details and an underlying sense of play.

Ambalal’s colour palette is not necessarily naturalistic. Nor is his perspective, which is often aerial where the occupants are placed in a two dimensional manner. This has also emerged out of his minute observation of Nathdwara pichwai paintings with their colourful, joyous expressions. His compositions retain an individualistic viewpoint which root them in his environment.

For Ambalal the larger focus on animals is because their anatomy provides him more scope for the use of diverse colours. He is able to create various hues and shades and experiment with their spread on the surface. This according to him creates a bridge towards a move to abstraction. ‘The geometry of the work is my concern and it makes the canvas come to life.’ He adds, ‘The element of ashcharya [surprise] is what happens. My work is not conscious but it can conceal a message which one has to decipher.’

In this richly hued kingdom there seems to be humanism and foresight about conditions of existence which reveal themselves with a gradual uncovering. The artist’s well versed seizure of the moment with his skill of draughtsmanship brings about the alchemic transformation on the canvas which creates an alternative landscape of plural experiences. In doing so there seems to be a reflection of conditions which, while existing in the realm of possibilities, create a palette of obliterations and hopeful realizations. If there is a forecasting of a brighter time to come, it is also one, his works seem to suggest, which can be realized with strength and wisdom.

Yashodhara Dalmia


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