Uday Mondal

Born 1976 | Kolkata, West Bengal
1999 BFA, Indian Art College, Kolkata
2002 MFA, Painting, MS University, Baroda

Stylistically, my works aim to maintain parity between the abstract and the real world. They document the life around. The subjects portrayed depict the metro culture that we live in; comprising the people―in their natural poses and moods surrounded by objects of routine life. These elements together, which are components of the natural and the man-made world, along with the synchronic relationship that burgeons between them, remains the focal point of all my works.

In the process of creation of a painting, the canvases get slathered in frenzied layers of colours about 18-20 times. The images are worked and reworked in multiple layers, sometimes erased and sometimes retained with a never ending zest to capture the essence of reality. Here playful application of colours which appears as mark, suggests the play between abstraction and reality. Colour is poured on to the canvas directly from mugs and buckets; and spread with the help of rollers, scrapers, mops, combs and hands, which act as tools for ‘mark making’ that lends a sense of vibrancy to the surface which is essentially painterly. Where the process of creation of a work of art is a never ending process, a point of culmination is decided and the painting is left over to be interpreted by the viewer.

Untitled
Acrylic on paper
30 x 15 inches