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Pyne has always painted dream worlds, a world that 'is only half articulate and leaves the rest to a strange eloquent silence'. Using images from his childhood, religious iconography and the stories of the Bengali epics, he has created an oeuvre that is deeply private, resonant with myth and full of complexity. The enchanted space -- the Private world of Ganesh Pyne is being published on the occasion of one of the major solos of this seminal artist. The last book ...
There are recurrent motifs that appear in Paresh's images. The boats are patent in almost all his work. To him, they are hypnotic in character. They are not only symbols of movement and journey but are also evocative of his boyhood memories. Then there are the old buildings with their moldering surfaces, water bodies, the nayak and the nayika, the archetypal man and woman, who reenact the drama of life without which the world would cease to continue. There is a ...