Narendra Thakare

Being an observer, the artist, gives meaningful, concrete forms into the speculations, which arise from visual and tactile sense impressions he receives, thereby supplying the viewer with new concepts upon which he can organize and speculate within his own immediate and stored sense impressions. Responding to symbols of history, myth and materiality of the socio-political and cultural reality, the artist engages thematically with his works alongside his exploration of the antitheses of its inherent dualities. These symbols and forms seem to be limited to boundaries drawn upon them, thus losing their true meaning. Narendra Thakare attempts to describe his existence and its conflicts, the origin of these conflicts and the anticipations of overcoming them through his works.Narendra?s works are like living space, space permeated by our raced, gendered selves. It is representative of his very existence. There are spaces of belonging, emptiness, of ?tting in, of confrontation, of forgetting, spaces that can be measured and analysed. One of the features of our being, Heidegger says, is that we ?make room,? ?give space,? and ?let entities within the world be encountered.? In other words, we ourselves are spatial. Thus, the artist feels, we cannot talk of space without talking about us and we cannot talk about us without talking about space. Our space is a lived and multi-sensory space saturated and structured by memories and intentions. We keep projecting meanings and signification to everything we encounter.His forms are constructed, collaged out of materials that are in their actual use, meant for celebratory purpose. However, the world the artist creates out of them is not about celebration ' it is filled with shadows and like fragments of paper suggesting a relationship to a fragment of a memory. His work is laden with rationality and multiple layers of interpretation although apparently simple in expression. The urban claustrophobia, cultural plurality coupled with architectural elements of cityscape are metaphorically externalised in of his works. Urbanization, its beneficiaries and victims, its virtues and iniquities are some of the concerns he explores.?