DIGITAL COPY ON MAGZTERlike providing refined pictures of atoms. And
Parvathi has embraced technology to unravel
facets of matter to the last atom and more.
‘It is there in my deliberate and considered
appropriation of images that are at the
cutting edge of knowledge and science and
technology; images that arise, for example,
from space probes and scanning tunnelling
electron microscopes. It is a way of talking
about the here and now in which we live,’
says Parvathi. It is this attraction towards
abstraction that took her to Pierre’s works.
She admires the tactility and universality in
Pierre’s work apart from the sense of having a
spiritual centre out of which his works evolve
and grow. ‘Art,’ she says, ‘has always been
an engagement that reflects the emotional/
intellectual and physical geographies of
where I am, and it’s been an evolving process.
It is phenomenological, an examination
of experience that arises from my role as
a sentient being in the world; the art is an
intervention into the flow of life as it unfolds,
sometimes a rupture, sometimes a translated
experience.’ As far as Pierre is concerned, he
wishes to be a tribal artist far away from the
reach of technology. ‘I am after something
simple, joyful, light, porous and transparent,’
he says, ‘because I deeply believe that despite
everything life is ultimately like that. That
potential is undercurrent beneath the visible
current of chaos. So all these years I have
shunned all that is heavy, pompous, formal
or intimidating. For example, from the very
beginning I did away with frames, working
on free canvas, then on mosquito net and
now I am happy to work with fiberglass mesh
or sunscreen mesh. I also keep some portions
of the support untouched, to keep the sense
of floating in space or of “going through.”’elsewhere and everywhere, Parvathi
Nayar, Handdrawn Graphite, Mixed
Media and 3D Components on
Wooden Panel,
24 3/4'' x 36 1/2'' x 1 1/2''.,Image
Courtesy the ArtistIAF - Delhi Connecting Art/ FEB 2016 - MAR 2016 / ARTS ILLUSTRATED /^59