Distorted Beauty
Artist Mukesh Yadav,who makes 3D paintings,is displaying his works in the city for the first time.
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When works of art are put up for public display,they usually have an accompanying board that reads: Please do not touch. Artist Mukesh Yadavs works,however,request viewers to engage with the art and even stepping on them for the perfect click. Yadav makes distorted paintings that create an illusion of being three-dimensional. So in the middle of a floor,suddenly one comes across a deep pit with only some precariously placed stepping stones to get across,or a tube gushing with water.
The Haryana-based artist describes it as 3D art,which is famous in the West but unexplored in India as yet. Very few people here know about 3D art. In fact,I know only two other artists in the country who make such paintings, says the 30-year-old,who is exhibiting four 3D paintings at Phoenix
Marketcity mall.
Learning the art from an American artist in 2010,Yadav says he was intrigued by its character. The art form is amazing if the viewer interacts with it correctly. It has to be seen from a certain angle for the illusion to work. Also,its best seen through a single convex lens,like that in a camera, says Yadav.
If viewing the art entails various specifics,creating it is even more calculated. I have to measure the area on which the painting has to be done,and take into consideration the height and distance from which it will be seen. Then the design that is to be painted is distorted and produced on paper according to the scale of the painting itself. Finally,a grid is drawn on this draft and then it is reproduced on the surface, explains Yadav.
The art form can be created on any surface,says the artist. While in the city,Yadav has painted directly on the floor,but has also previously painted on a wooden board and canvas. Depending on whether the work is meant to be temporary or permanent,I use chalk pastels,stainer colours,enamel or oil-based colours, he says.
Talking about the time each artwork takes,Yadav says it depends on how complex and big the piece is going to be. An average-sized piece requires about two or three days. But there are works that can take some weeks because of their complexity. In Pune,I took about two days for each work, he says.
The temporariness of most of his works does pinch him a little but Yadav says there is more to his art. Of course every artist wants his work to be permanent but people get bored seeing the same thing again and again. Though these 3D paintings are here only for a few days,I see people really having fun with it once they have understood the correct way to see it, he says,adding,I am not here to educate; I am here to display a certain art and allow people to enjoy it.
3D Art Fest is on till December 20
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