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Awadhesh Misra
 
 
About the Artist

The artist refuses any attempts for explanation for he feels it is a reductionism, a possible theoritical and imaginative incarceration. His work which he calls drawings has myriad tonal quality almost textured, almost like etchings almost reminiscent sometimes of Goya sometimes Munch sometimes the Russian masters and all the wonderful & myriad influences, philosophical and artistic which his mind has asmosed in Lucknow, Banaras & internationally.
Awadhesh's work is compelling. His work if can be discovered is discovered and slowly you find newer significance every time you see it.
"I have consistently tried not to fall into a mould" says Awadhesh. "My medium is painting and my instruments for execution have never been conventional, from roller to fingers to crushed napkins I use everything to give the fascinating textures which characterize much of my work."
Awadhesh Misra's drawings are lavished with great detail. There are no bold strokes of an ambitious flourishing mind but a pensive controlled _expression.
These drawings are remarkable for they have an ethereal smoke like quality yet there us a denseness and sense of protest in them, characteristic of his other work in painting & mixed media.
Awadhesh is a mild mannered smiling young man, deceptive, he is a rebel. He has as an artist, as an editor of an art journal, as a teacher, conducted himself with grace and responsibility but when his spirit is challanged he has protested and broken away.
The "Red Dot" in most of his drawing is a structural device to highlight, but this could also be a "liemotif" of a meditative 'angst'. The strings in some of his work holding the fragile forms are compelling.
Awadhesh's drawings like his paintings do not exceed the frame, they are disturbing but not judgemental. One cannot look at his work with "disinterested attention" for long. His work is not a symbolization as exemplification of a pre-existant though it stands on its own, unified but not cold and self contained. It is an invitation, an invitation to partake in a journey of self contruction.

- Dr Rakesh Chandra, Philosopher

 
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Composition_2_2006

2006
59x75 cm

Composition_2_2006

Composition_3_2006

2006
Oil on Canvas
88x95.5 cm

Composition_3_2006

Composition_11_2007

2007
Oil_on_Canvas
90x120 cm

Composition_11_2007

Composition_12_2007

2007
Oil_on_Canvas
90x120 cm

Composition_12_2007
 
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