Unknown Artist
91 x 213 cm; 36 x 60 in
Harsh Vardhana is an abstract artist who is different, he is not recognized for being an artist in the full Wagnerian sense of a master creator, a generator like Michelaneglo of `divine concepts ?but for being a thinker and a feeler of a nether world. The pleasures and frustrations of this feeling, entirely embrace the world of colour and all that is there within. In Harsh Vardhana?s work he gives us Bhava-the experience of treading water beyond the surf, riding the troughs and swells of sound, each working another wave. Swept along by an unseen current, you are towed into deeper water, until you find yourself amid a flotsam of old routines and rifts,half remembered snatches of things, the wreckage of worlds and words. Harsha Vardhana plays that sojourn calmly as if the listener might hear some secret, just like old spools of memories. But the overall effect becomes intesenly spatial. You can celebrate on the power of the overlap-original meanings and contexts of inidvidual works in order to reinforce their musicality and emotional content.This is Bhava the emotive experience that swells-but it is understated, softly textured and more evanescent because it brings back, it spews forward, it is art that is all of apiece. Uma Nair, Bhava, Bodhi Art Singapore-2004.