SAINDIA JANUARY 2017

INFERNO MEDIA MEET
PADMANABH BENDRE’S
‘TIMELESS SPACE’ EXHIBITION
From pointillism to figurative works to graphic-collage
works with canvas on plywood that can be equated
to inlay work, artist Padmanabh Bendre in three decades
has reinvented himself at every step. The current
exhibition titled Timeless Space brings to life, the
works of the veteran artist across 30 years, with his
current works taking centre stage. Pooja Bedi, Mukesh Rishi and
Raghav Rishi inaugurated the show while other guests included
singer Mudasir Ali and artists Devyani Pareek, Vishwa Sahni, Gautam
Mukherjee, Sonu Gupta. The veteran painter’s wife Shraddha
Bendre, son Chirayu Bendre and daughter-in-law Sonia Bendre
were also present at the do that was held at Jehangir Art Gallery,
Kala Ghoda.
An interesting technique invented by Bendre who is incidentally
also an architect and town planner by qualification, the current series
are result of painstaking work. First, the artist creates his layered
works on canvas. Then he cuts them and from three to four
paintings, lets the triangles and squares create their own colourco-ordinated
spaces and emerge as unique forms on plywood. For,
Bendre finds great excitement in communicating through the element
of graphic forms, complete with negative and positive forms
and spaces.
An avid golfer for the last two and half decades, Bendre seeks
his inspiration from the nature and the vast expanse of the lush
greens, an unending motivator for both his passions – golf and art.
Each work of Bendre takes a minimum of three weeks of painstaking
work, if not more. And start from 18” x 18” and can go up to 7 ft
x 3 ft. “My works are not pre-planned. I simply piece them together
from the colours that are layered and they speak a language of
their own,” says Bendre, who admits that this was merely an experiment
with art that made him evolve. And that it found takers in
likeminded architects and interior designers is merely incidental.
“As an artist, you merely create and enjoy the process. When people
love it, you feel good,” says Bendre simply as he begins experimenting
on his next series with enamel on copper.
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