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Canderous Times-VI
Canderous Times-VI
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Artist: Anurag Anand
Medium: Mixed Media on Handmade Paper
Edition: Set of 6/9
Size: 9 × 6.5 inches (22.86 × 16.51 cm)
Year: 2024
Anurag Anand distills the essence of childhood joy and familial love into a simple yet powerful visual narrative. Set of 8/9 from his mixed media series on handmade paper, the composition features a child joyfully riding on his father’s back, an age-old gesture of play that becomes here a universal symbol of trust, affection, and carefree delight. Silhouetted against a village backdrop of scattered homes and blooming flowers, the figures take on both personal and archetypal resonance. Rendered with Anand’s signature earthy textures and a warm palette infused with golden light, the work exudes a quiet radiance. The handmade paper, with its organic surface and tactile depth, enriches the composition with a raw, unfiltered intimacy that mirrors the emotional tenor of the scene. The father and child are not detailed portraits but suggestive forms, allowing viewers to project their own memories and emotions onto the image.
What elevates this work beyond nostalgia is Anand’s ability to anchor sentiment in symbolism. The village homes in the background evoke place, tradition, and continuity, suggesting that such moments of familial connection are the building blocks of memory and identity. The blooming flowers scattered throughout the composition reinforce this idea, serving as gentle metaphors for innocence, vitality, and the natural blossoming of emotional bonds. Anand’s use of symbolic abstraction and minimalism resists overt sentimentality, offering instead a poised and poetic reflection on love in its most instinctive and enduring form. The joy of the child, the strength of the father, and the shared moment between them form a quiet narrative of belonging. It is a visual poem about the weightlessness of childhood and the strength of relationships that carry us, literally and metaphorically, through life. This work underscores Anand’s strength as a storyteller attuned to the emotional landscapes of everyday life. His ability to translate fleeting, intimate moments into visual narratives of universal appeal makes this piece both profoundly moving and artistically refined. It invites viewers to remember, to feel, and to reconnect with the quiet joys that shape who we are.
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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.