Gallery Silver Scpaes
Searching for the Divine- II
Searching for the Divine- II
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Artist: Anurag Anand
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 33 × 24 inches (83.82 × 60.96 cm)
Year: 2024
Anurag Anand’s Searching for the Divine – II immerses the viewer in a contemplative nocturnal landscape, where architecture, earth, and sky converge in quiet conversation. Executed in acrylic on canvas, the work presents a deeply expressive interpretation of rural life at night, blending folk-art influences with a painterly introspection that evokes themes of solitude, spirituality, and timeless human yearning.
The scene unfolds under a deep indigo-blue sky, dominated by a luminous crescent moon in the upper right quadrant. This celestial presence serves not only as a compositional anchor but also as a potent symbol, hinting at the spiritual undercurrents embedded in the mundane. Beneath its watchful gaze, the landscape is rendered in a palette of muted earth tones: the browns, ochres, and grays of timeworn buildings contrast against the cool blues and shadowed greens of the surrounding terrain, cultivating an atmosphere of hushed reverence.
Composition lies a larger, central structure, perhaps a temple, home, or community space, its weathered façade and broken geometry suggesting both age and mystery. This architectural nucleus, depicted in faded mustard yellows and cool grays, holds an ambiguous spiritual resonance. Whether abandoned or sanctified, it becomes a metaphor for the eternal human quest for meaning, stability, and connection. Surrounding this focal point are modest dwellings, their sloped roofs and simple forms portrayed with a folk-inspired clarity. These buildings are nestled among low vegetation and patches of rough grass, while a sinuous path weaves through them, implying both literal and metaphorical passage. The viewer is invited to journey inward, not just through the landscape, but into the emotional terrain of longing, rootedness, and search.
Bare, spindly trees rise like silent sentinels, their leafless branches reaching into the vast night sky. These silhouettes accentuate the stark beauty of the landscape while reinforcing the spiritual void that the title implies. The use of expressive brushwork and subtle textural layers adds a tactile intimacy to the surface, enhancing the emotional gravity of the composition. Searching for the Divine – II is not merely a nocturnal scene; it is a meditative inquiry into the human condition. Through its symbolic imagery, muted palette, and emotive stillness, Anurag Anand crafts a visual elegy for the sacred hidden in everyday spaces, urging viewers to consider the elusive intersections of the material and the metaphysical.
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Mrs Mayor was walked into the art world by the legendary modernist Bimal Das Gupta, one of whose biggest collections remains with Gallery Silver Scapes. In the 1980s, as head and first curator of the Habiart Gallery founded by Mrs Rekha Modi — a childhood friend — Mrs Mayor worked closely with and curated shows for renowned artists such as A Ramachandran, GR Santosh, Rameshwar Broota, Sakti Burman, MK Bardhan, Dhiraj Chaudhury, M Sivanesan, and Arup Das among others.
Besides modern masters, she also worked with young contemporaries such as Sudip Roy, Paresh Maity, Subroto Kundu, Vinod Sharma, and many more. Artworks commissioned by her are now part of prestigious collections, such as those of the India Habitat Centre, Ranbaxy, Pepsi, Hotel Lalit, Bank of America, and many more private and public collections.