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Making visible the invisible...Mahirwan Mamtani

by Mamtani

MAKING VISIBLE THE INVISIBLE….Mahirwan Mamtani

The 1935-born Mahirwan Mamtani migrated to live in Delhi post Partition, acquiring his diploma in art from the Delhi Polytechnic after a BA in political science. Mamtani lives and works from Munich.

The artist has exhibited in India with artists like Biren De, GR Santosh, Om Prakash Sharma, Sohan Qadri, Profulla Mohanti, Haridasan and Viswanathan. Showing at the Dhoomimal Art Centre, Mamtani explains his art. He has been painting the four-faced geometric Mandala faces for the last four years. Way back in the sixties, he was influenced by constructivism, and with his Indian background, by Tantra art. Out of these origins arose his `Centrovision´ series of more than 3000 acrylic paintings. They began to appear spontaneously about twenty years ago, and then he did them on wood.

These Mandala faces represent “Wholeness”. In the Centrovision paintings four circles meet in the centre, the zero point – our true Self.

About the use of his luminous colours, he explains black as representing the void with all potential colours contained in it. Blue to him is the colour of a higher frequency, and spiritual, like Krishna. Yellow is the colour of light with the potential for both positive and negative change.

The septuagenarian associates various colours with the notes of various musical instruments, too. Thus while the drums sound red and brown, the cello sounds blue. Like a scientist, he says, he wants to make visible the invisible, and known the unknown.

ARUNA BHOWMICK
Art Critic
THE STATESMAN

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Making visible the invisible...Mahirwan Mamtani