Mahirwan Mamtani born in Nawabshah, 1935, identifies himself with constructivism. He studied fine art at the Delhi Polytechnic and in 1966 shifted to Munich to study art as part of the DAAD German artistic exchange agency. Coining the idea of the ‘Centro vision’ where the gaze is attributed through multiple dimensions of the microcosm and the macrocosm, built through the doctrines of ‘Tantra’, the spiritual dimension of the mask envelops a plane that is geometric and human. The masks masque our multiple lives, consciousness and visions of the world from our elements.

Mamtani is eccentric with his love for classical music and the experimental genre that he composes and animates his paintings with language, philosophy and literature. His paintings contain the desires of modern life in words, watercolour and other media. He talks of the numerous masques we hold in front of those who view us. His Centro vision paintings aren’t abstract but are rather portraits; poignant, comic and happy. Art History intersects Science and Geometry in the memory of a forever exiled soul.

The artist lives and works in Munich, Germany.