Ram Singh Urveti
Urveti recalls how when he first painted on canvas, on Jangarh Singh Shyam’s impetus in the early ’90s, the colours spread in all directions as the artist had no previous experience in the medium. To calm him, Shyam’s mother said, “The way the colours have spread over this canvas, your work will also spread all over the world.” Years later, his works have travelled across the world, from Japan to France, Russia to Brazil. “Orally passed on from one generation to another, our folktales are not written anywhere and by painting them we want to share them with the world,” says Urveti, 49. Best known for his amoebic forms and the small arrow heads that fill his figures at this exhibition, he has, among others, the acrylic titled Bada Dev, with the main deity of the Pradhan Gond community invoked by the Saja tree that surrounds it in a circular maze. In Dudh, Dahi aur Mahi ka Ped (pictured), he tells the story of a king who planted three trees of the same name and resolved that only someone who could identify them can marry his daughter.
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