Liladhar Patil

Lives and works in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Artist statement

LILADHAR PATIL www.liladharpatil.com As an visual artist my earlier works mark my rigorous engagement with process of making drawings and fine relief sculptures, and vice versa. This makes my earlier work series often holding a two dimensional presence with a thin dividing line between drawings and fine reliefs. Both the processes have been deeply integrated with/in the re-use of metal industrial waste. I take intense long walks in the industrial areas of the peripheral city Mumbai to collect my materials. I have been employing the industrial metal cutouts in my works. Each detail of the industrial waste becomes a link to the languages lost and desiccated in our locales. My journey started from painting landscapes that had absence of emotions. Gradually going deep in relation to the core concept, I changed my mediums. Every work of art I made is a landscape of instincts we all go through, and are certain to lose, the actual reason we grew up for. My works emerge at the margins of consistent crisis wherein human language/s struggle and attempt to communicate and fail. Human/emotions cling together for survival without any motivation. Like, human identities hang out together with their survival-instincts without questioning their deeper existential needs. I work with ink (drawings) on photographic-prints, installations and environmental sculptures. My visual language could be viewed as a fragment of the transforming urban landscape, an alternative view to the so called...

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