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Artist's Statement
Rajesh Pullarwar is one of the most interesting talents to have emerged from the printmaking tradition in the last few years. Committed to forging ahead with new personalised printing techniques, the artist has created an utterly unique formulation of the silkscreen method. These one-off works are unique and use inks as their base. In this sense they become intertwined with a painting tradition.
In 2005 Pullarwar was awarded the most promising artist of the year award by the National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai. This is Pullarwar’s third solo show with Chatterjee & Lal and the first in their new gallery in Colaba.
For his present show, Pullarwar will exhibit works that have a dual existence. When seen from far the works are representational, all of them being self portraits. The closer one gets, the more the works dissolve into abstraction. Consequently the works function in the same manner as when one scrutinise a newspaper from close proximity: all one sees is a collection of dots. This opens up interesting questions revolving around the nature of the self.
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