The exhibition titled ‘Shunyata’ (Emptiness) by Abhay K will be on view from 4th to 10th September at Galerie Romain Rolland, Alliance Française de Delhi.
The exhibition explores the Buddhist philosophy of’ Shunyata’ or ‘Emptiness’ in which understanding emptiness becomes vital for liberation from suffering and samsara–the cycle of birth and death.
Speaking about the exhibition, Abhay K said, “When I stared at the empty canvas, I had no clue what I was going to paint. I started with making a circle and filling it with paint and it started taking form. Each time a new form took shape on the canvas, I felt mesmerized. I started enjoying the process.”
He further added, “These paintings are visualizations of emptiness. Forms are visible when one looks at them closely, but as one moves away from them, forms disappear and what remains is emptiness, a true validation of the crux of the Heart Sutra — ‘form is emptiness, emptiness is form.’ The forms that appear are mere approximations of figures familiar and unfamiliar, gods and goddesses, mortals and immortals, plants and animals. They are all transient. They appear and then vanish. Emptiness remains.”
About the Artist:
Abhay K. wears many hats as a poet, editor, translator, photographer and diplomat. His artistic journey began in 2005 in Moscow, Russia. Since then he has exhibited his artworks in Paris, St. Petersburg, New Delhi, Brasilia and Antananarivo, some of which are in private collections in several countries.
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