A multi-faceted artist who worked across a range of mediums and scale, Satish Gujral was known for innovatively using material to create highly textural works. His exposure to Mexican art through training under Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros is evident in this work with its mural-like relief, a genre Gujral excelled in. In this Untitled work shaped like a circular disc, Gujral uses a modernist vocabulary with wood as the canvas, achieving tactility through raised terracotta elements of different elevations, and inserting scripts and popular images as a comment on contemporary times.
published references
Singh, Kishore, ed., Indian Abstracts: An Absence of Form (New Delhi: DAG, 2014), p. 181 Singh, Kishore, ed., A Visual History of Indian Modern Art, Volume VII: Alternate Sensibilities (New Delhi: DAG, 2015), p. 1339 Singh, Kishore, ed., Iconic Masterpieces of Indian Modern Art (New Delhi: DAG, 2021), pp. 437, 440
Satish Gujral
Untitled
1969
Acrylic and terracotta on wood
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Satish Gujral
Untitled
1969
Acrylic and terracotta on wood
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