MURALI SIVARAMKRISHNAN (India)
S.MURALI has held solo exhibitions of his work in many parts of India and abroad. Although he is a noted academic specialized in theory and aesthetics, Murali has continued to be equally committed to and involved in his pursuit of art. His work is non-traditional and experimental. And because he is a self-taught artist he remains free from any school or region. His work is characterized by ceaseless experiment in the choice of medium as well as in the creation of texture and structure.
Murali apparently does not believe in depicting recognizable reality and resorting to conventional methods—yet there is a certain method in his experiment and a certain meaning that surfaces through his exploration of lines and forms. These are conveyed through his specific idiom and style. Abstract, no doubt, but at every point invoking nature and the natural.
For me each work of art is a discovery, and I believe that there is at the heart of every discovery a certain grace, something as yet undiscovered but nevertheless felt through the veins and felt through the heart—and this becomes the discovery.
Creation and discovery at the same time, at once.
But not everything is entirely without a certain reaching after, a sort of search.
S MURALI
