The conventional definitions and forms end, and a new sense and forms are born at the same time while experiencing these works. The sense of depth and forms autonomously stands with its gaiety and the beautiful pastel palette.
Sandeep Ghule’s art journey has come here in a certain way of certain developments. In his early career, he started from non-representative forms by working in abstraction. He again turned to the pictorial landscapes and started exploration and experimentation with it. Which has come to different visualitics, aesthetics and notable techniques. Sandeep has gained the characteristics and understanding that sagaciously takes his journey from landscape to ‘just a painting’. Observation, reconstruction, deconstruction are significant factors in this style that he has developed in this series. It is not just observing or studying the frames he has explored across the rural realm, but the visual outcomes that are crafted through the understanding and rites by him are unique.
Daedal and complex construction and deconstruction of forms significantly plays a pivotal role in recent works. Sandeep developed this form using paper and cutters. He began cutting sheets of paper, pre-painted with gouache, into shapes of varying colours and sizes and then arranged them to form vibrant and illusionistic compositions. ‘The sense of depth and forms’ is principally very delicate and fragile, but it is very firm and definitive. The idea of gluing something onto something else. The glued-on patches which Sandeep added to his surfaces offered a new perspective on painting when the patches collided with the surface plane of the painting. From this perspective, this style is a methodical reexamination of the relation between painting and murals.
This style resembles Collage and the Japanese art of Chigiri-e and the most famous decoupage work. It is also reminiscent of Papier collé (French: pasted paper or paper cut-outs), which is a type of collage and collaging technique in which paper is adhered to a flat mount. One can also imagine Pablo Picasso’s Head (Tête), cut and pasted on coloured paper, Matisse’s ‘Blue Nude II’ and Georges Braque’s ‘Fruit Dish and Glass’ in the early part of the 20th century.
Sandeep’s reminiscence of the landscape painting he painted in his past has now reached a distinct world. He has been triumphant in this journey on many levels. He has painted what he felt on his terms. At one time, he painted landscapes in the impasto method and multiple layers by using a knife; He has now congregated several layers of paper and entrusted to us the visuals he has come up with. While looking at his paintings, he regulates the incipient path, but once entered inside, his work invites us the opportunity to find our own connotation in various ways, and we continue to experience the visuals as if we were to solve a puzzle. He invites you to a discrete point of view because of his mastery of mediums and evokes a prosperous sensibility of memory, past, aroma, texture, ambience, depth, layers, and serenity.
Prabhakar Kamble
Anur, Maharashtra.
