It’s an honor to be supporting the Consulate General of India and Arth Art International in presenting Beyond Borders: A Retrospective Art Exhibition honoring the late artist Bharat Dalal and his life’s work, The Fossilized Passions of Da Vinci which will be dedicated to the 75th anniversary of India’s Independence Day. This event will be hosted at The Consulate of General India in New York City on August 25, 2021 from 6pm to 9pm. Thank you to Karmic Daaru for bar sponsorship!
Please click here to RSVP by August 20, 2021. For more information on the exhibition please visit Bharat Dalal’s website.
Bharat Dalal was an exemplary painter of Indian origin and one of those unique individuals that coupled being scientifically minded with a strong philosophical outlook. During his lifetime he felt a powerful, yet unexplained connection with the “universal genius” of Leonardo da Vinci. While living in Los Angeles during his late twenties, Dalal began creating a series of six large-scale artworks inspired by Da Vinci called, “The Fossilized Passions of da Vinci”. The collection took him over five years to complete and pieces range in size from 81×48 inches to 81×180 inches. One of the most intriguing features of the works is the techniques he employed to create them. The massive canvases were hung horizontally in the studio using a system of pulleys designed by the artist. Dalal would then use contact paper and other materials to skillfully mark out the areas meant for paint application. Using standard house paints, he would use the pulley system to move the paint around on the canvases, a process he would repeat over and over again until he achieved the marbling effect he desired. The process he developed for manipulating the massive canvases used the force of gravity to define the flow of the paint, forming intriguing swirls and allowing the paint to naturally adopt the pattern.
Before his death in 2018, Dalal described “The Fossilized Passions of Da Vinci” to be about those, “emotions, expressions, and experiences of Leonardo as he was in transition during his pursuit of solving the Universal Equation. The paintings are based on the life of Leonardo da Vinci, not as an homage, but due to visions so persistently haunting.”