Gulam Mohammed Sheikh

Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day 
Gulam Mohammed Sheikh
Title: Story Aziz & Aziza
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 66" x 48"
Year: 1989

Gulam Mohammed Sheikh as been instrumental in initiating and theorizing the Narrative-Figurative tendency in contemporary art. His early work may be seen to be occupied with an investigation of the subliminal reaches of human existence. His work from the 1960s and 1970s can be seen to be informed with a consciousness of the surreal in the seemingly mundane. An undercurrent of the erotic seems to animate the landscape. An extreme organicity of forms in vibrant psychedelic color falls in with this concern. His interest in several traditions of world art and the search for a linguistic-theoretical bedrock that could support an indigenous practice that did nor become insular have since led to the formulation of a practice that resists monolithic constructs of identity or tradition, and moves back and forth in time and space

to construct memory plays that do not remain restricted to the autobiographical. Though the autobiographical reference has been an important part of his practice, Sheikh has found it possible to reach for reflections on the historical and the civilizational through the device of the autobiography. Musings on place, on the cultural environment of the individual are of importance, to him; the physical and the transcendental meet in his work.
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