Acrylic, ply board, wood and string on canvas pasted on ply board
Featured in this Untitled work is an instance of the ‘Constructions’ that Eric Bowen became recognised for—an egg form suspended from a projected square punctuated with circular depressions. These were mixed-media installation-like ‘paintings’ with a strongly architectonic quality in the manner the elements—the geometric shapes of circle, rectangle, square, triangle, line—were composed and held together in balance. What is breathtakingly striking about these paintings are the stillness and the balance that they celebrate along with alignment and precision.
published references
Singh, Kishore, ed., Group 1890: India’s Indigenous Modernism (New Delhi: DAG, 2016), p. 458 Singh, Kishore, Memory & Identity: Indian Artists Abroad (New Delhi: DAG, 2016), p. 384
Eric Bowen
Untitled
1971
Acrylic, ply board, wood and string on canvas pasted on ply board
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Untitled
1971
Acrylic, ply board, wood and string on canvas pasted on ply board
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