hemraj artist

Bear with me: Hemraj                                                                                                                          I have been exploring the realm of the abstract form the very beginning of my art career. Public recognition of my work came when I won a scholarship award at the first Ravi Jain Annual in 1993. That was straight after my academic career. But I never look back. Seeing progress in the realm of abstractionism, Dhoomimal Gallery gave an opening to me and my first solo show met with unexpected success. This propelled me to explore the realm of the abstract still further. Ever since then my path has been that of exploration and coming up with new equations of form and space. For form acquires meaning only in terms of space. Also, how imageries, with a number of abstract form, are structured in spatial terms and how they are inter – related and integrated. A lot goes into such structuring. For this happens without a prior design, without a theme

Envisioning the invisible Sometimes the kingdom of art would seem to have shrunk like the Vatican state, thanks to the culture of quantity of finer methods of mapping or dealing with the world of forms and substances. Serious art and actuality appearing to have almost parted company as far as the outer world were concerned. Artist will now set out to dredge independent existences, conceived in the inner recesses of their being and pray why? For despite the rigorous new world of weights and measures and the concomitant computation, the man within the man – the experience – remains as tantalizing a mystery as every, and as such sought after. Still, only a few artists really dive deep within to bring us some tokens of vibrations from the mainly unsounded depths – trying to incarnate them in lines of light. In this order of work an artist may have little use for what the outer says has to give. No birds or beasts, nothing but incand