Ganga Spiritual Sojourn : Sidharth

Uma Nair

A SOLO SHOW BY SIDHARTH AT
GALLERY ART KONSULT –INDIA ART FAIR 2015
CURATED BY UMA NAIR

Uma Nair explores the spiritual, classical and the cotemporary elements that are juxtaposed skillfully by Sidharth in his epic work Ganga.

Ganga-Spiritual Sojourn is an epic work by artist-poetthinker- writer and song maker Sidharth who has toiled for four decades understanding the rudiments of art specially the miniature techniques of the Thangkas and the realist idiom in art. This monumental canvas that measures 65” x 210” is a panoramic painting that is made from silver leaf and mineral pigments created by the artist himself. “My work is about the journey from without and within,” says Sidharth. My journey is about the destination as well as the many metaphorical moments and moods and memories that are attached with the river that enfolds both the living and the dead,’ he affirms.” Ganga is more than a holy river. It is a collection of contradictions and commentaries-it is the divination of great histories and legends and the music of civilizations that lived and died on its banks. For me the psyche of the Ganga lives in the people I met, in the birds I watched, in the animals I observed. For me every living thing had its own poetry-it shared the lyrical flow of the river. It shared the same linguistic and imagistic preoccupations of the lives led along its journey.