Percepted face: The inner core of our own person-psyche... by Mr.Santosh Shirsat

 An attempt to find our existence-form gets start in the surrounding noise...

while observing our own daily movements, pause is taken at the origin of thoughts - the head and they with subtle movements start conversing in two dimensional surfaces...and taking the visual form the space journey begins... This is the journey of visual -compositions created by Mr. Santosh Shirsat... through his solo exhibition “the HEAD”, through which we can observe a different journey of his own and alternatively, that of every human being. A mind in a body moving in the world:: its coverings - with many unwanted coverings, the face begins to find its own form by taking the multi-dimensional somewhat moving form of the line... in the three vertical uneven divisions of space, simplicity conveys clarity; with the effect of grey colors, uneven somewhat kinetic line texture; faces are stabilized by bold black lines in a dynamic questioned-synthesis... The questioned journey for searching identity goes continuously on and on... 

Then in a similar continuity, the identity-seeking journey from the face to the mind goes in search to become somewhat freer, freer... Now all thatremains is space..., the free clarity of the tripartite division..., a somewhat found “identity” seeking to merge into it.. a tenuous but free relationship with space. Looking to become somewhat liquid with a light touch coating from the lines leading up to it... now the lines have covered themselves with lightly coated and the sensitivity of color is equality entered with light touch... a bit gentle translucent too... Now own face with a different perspective is found...; own unique identity... completely different from all others... not similar to anything... with their own uniqueness... the only one!... our own discovered true face.. our own person-psyche...! 

Dr. Gauri Kate

 

    Shirsat Santosh Pandurang

For the past two decades, the focus of my paintings has primarily been myself. In the beginning , the composition in the painting was an event, an incident that was stuck in mind, my desires, aspirations, lust, dreams were presented from the subject. 

Later on, the maximum space in the pictorial space started to be occupied by self-portrait. while painting that self-portrait, my facial features would also come, such as nose, head structure, curly hair, beard, ear-hair etc. these over-occupying faces sometimes depicted some subject specific element in the background, but secondary, with low contrast, dim. 

Lately only the face is depicted in the picture, the shape of the face remains the same and the ‘self’ in it is reduced. That face is not my own or that of a particular person or of a particular society, but it is only a human face. that face represents the human being. trying to express various emotions (sadness, compassion, fear, anxiety, anger , lust) through the depiction of this face. 

When portraying this face shape is becoming more linear. according to the words of my guru Mr. Prabhakar Kolte sir _ 

 “Don’t try to find a form, just go with formation” 

 I am more focused on the formation of that face.