Spandan
80 x 40 cm; 31 x 16 in
Syed Haider Raza Known as the creator of the primordial Bindu, Syed Haider Raza?s Bindu belongs to his own gestation of a period of 55 years in Paris.It is the iconic rendition of the story of the seed of (Prakriti )nature woven around transformation; control and release; material; form; and space. It is about watching and experiencing the evanescent forms in nature and congealing them into the geometric concentrics of creation . It is about understanding the difference between pearls and ambergris, and between the confines of an Indian puja room and the expanse of the sea that mirrors and embraces the Panchatatva: the five elements.While his work straddles the Indian concept of cosmos and creation,the evolution of the Universe that arises out of the Pancha Mahabhutas or Five Great Elements: Fire, Earth, Water, Air and Ether all coalesce to form brilliant syncopations in the lyrical moods of an Indianesque sonata . Raza remains rooted to the philosophy of the creation of the being that exalts all.These five categories delineate the five densities of all visible and invisible matter, and have physiological as well as psychological correspondences with the five senses as well as with states of mind and emotions.Over the years he has called his search a result `of a parallel inquiry?. A cohesive ,cerebral, colourist who has moved from dense vibrancy to soft ethereality, Raza?s painting resonate the passionate hot colours of India with all their symbolic, emotive value. While drawing from memories of childhood spent in the forests he has also been inspired by Indian metaphysical thought.Early Raza works position a slash of red, a blotch of blue,and a grinding orchestration of greens. Brimming with angles and horizons, lightning flat zones and awkward arcing profusion it could well contain a grid, a spiky bit, a blurry thing or just a stroke-now 50 years hence Raza?s works are a hallmark of concentric coloured rings. There?s altogether a silence in the shapes, the colours rippling into one another.And now you can recall to mind that a work by Raza will be an affair with auras, the essence of ethereal matter, sounds and vibrations, perhaps ecleciastical and theosophical stuff born out of the shlokas of the Vedas. Raza, Aryan Art Gallery, Delhi 2006