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 His
paintings have surpassed the human psyche. They depict
the future with a nostalgic touch. His paintings haunt
you and take you often on a nostalgic trip where memories
mingle and present a colourful picture. His paintings
are not what he had seen but what glows from the memory
of what he had seen. The recent exhibition of Ramkumar
paintings are a fusion of history and memory.
It is really amazing that at a young age of 25,
he can delve so deeply into life. His paintings are
abstract. There are no prominent figures in his paintings
and yet they figurate as one sees them. The paintings
are from a remembrance that one visualizes. They are
like a dream and there is something disturbing about
them. The glowing grey and the patches of blue with
the luminous white patches amidst them, bring forth
the disturbing dream-like quality of the paintings.
Though the paintings are a sort of reflection from
the past, yet they present something shockingly new
in them.
 The
landscapes of his paintings are not chosen, rather
they seem to occur from a distant dream. These places
are somewhere in his memory and occur to him during
his painting not in a meticulous way but in a way
he cherishes them. These places are important not
because he has stayed there, but because they visit
him in his memory from time to time. This memory has
been very consciously depicted in the paintings. The
deep Blue sea of New Zealand, the huge
boulders, the silent grey hills of Andretta,
the slumberous of the Himalayan valley, have
all been captured in a retrospective way on the canvas.
In his paintings the sea, sand and the mountains,
exist with each other. There is some sort of visible
affinity between them.
 Ramkumar's
painting are not stagnant. They always seem to be
passing through phases. And all the phases have something
in common. There is a reflective quality about them.
They reflect the 'beyond' even in the stillness. The
paintings explore the depth of nature. It takes you
within the abstract world. The paintings always seem
to give a new meaning whenever you look at them.
His paintings are exhibited at Vadehra Art Gallery:
D-40, Defence Colony, New Delhi till March
12.
- Avni Sood
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