Pancha Mahabhuta


T. Venkanna

March 29 to July 13, 2013

Preview: March 28, 2013

Location: Gallery Maskara

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Panch Mahabhuta (Earth), 2012

Charcoal, ink, collage and dry pastel on rice paper pasted on canvas

96 x 144 inches (244 x 366 cm)


T. Venkanna’s “Panch Mahabhuta” takes each of the five elements – Earth, Sky, Air, Fire and Water and catalogues ways of seeing them through varied representation. The delicate fragments that detail each work include - archetypes, dreams, sexual fantasy, references from art history and primordial images, make up the collective unconscious. In most cases, the signs and signifiers used are removed/extracted from their established systems of meaning and employed as objects re-imagined to elaborate on the human condition - both psychological and political.