Gallery Silver Scpaes
Canderous Times-II
Canderous Times-II
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Artist: Anurag Anand
Medium: Mixed media on Handmade Paper
Edition: Set of 2/9
Size: 6.5 x 9 inches (16.51 × 22.86 cm)
Year: 2024
In this quietly evocative mixed media work, Anurag Anand explores the profound intersection between memory, identity, and domestic space. A seated woman, calm, composed, and absorbed, reads from a book that subtly transforms into a cluster of houses. With this compelling visual metaphor, Anand blurs the boundaries between intellectual engagement and emotional grounding, suggesting that reading is not merely an act of comprehension, but one of construction: of memory, selfhood, and belonging. Executed on handmade paper, the work carries an organic tactility that mirrors its subject's intimacy. The earthy textures and muted palette root the composition in a quiet, grounded sensibility. The paper’s raw surface enhances the piece’s emotional tone, underscoring the deeply personal and contemplative nature of the scene. Anand's symbolic abstraction allows viewers to move beyond literal interpretation and access a more poetic, associative reading of the image.
The woman at the center of the composition is rendered with restraint and sensitivity. Her posture is introspective, her world inwardly expansive. As the book morphs into architectural forms, walls, roofs, windows, it suggests that the stories she reads are also the ones she inhabits. In Anand’s visual language, the page becomes a place, the narrative becomes shelter, and the act of reading becomes a mode of home-making. This interplay of the domestic and the cerebral reveals a broader commentary on how spaces are shaped, not just by bricks and mortar, but by memory, language, and imagination. Anand invites viewers to consider the invisible architecture of emotional life: how recollections, rituals, and stories construct the spaces we call home. It is an affirmation of the quiet power of the everyday, where ordinary acts such as reading hold transformative, even transcendent, potential.
The symbolic abstraction present throughout the work resists didacticism, leaving room for viewers to enter the narrative with their own associations. The blending of figuration with architectural suggestion allows for layered interpretations, personal, cultural, and emotional. Work exemplifies Anand’s lyrical approach to visual storytelling. Set of 9/9 in this series, it stands as a testament to the artist’s sensitivity toward the intersection of inner life and outer world. It is a tender homage to the spaces we carry within us, shaped as much by stories as by structure, where the act of reading becomes a gesture of remembering, building, and belonging.
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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.