A Dictionary Of Sanjay's Modern Painting

February 8 - March 9, 2019

 

 

 

Sanjay Theodore's new exhibition as its title suggests, offers a compendium, a personal take on the different tropes that constitute modern painting. So with typical wit and deftness of touch, we have Sanjay's re-presentation of abstraction, figuration and the found - right down to Rorschach bookcover works offering false science and the ability to make of this what you can, as the basis for it all.

 

 

Sanjay's promise is considerable, but very considered too. The faux naïve gravitas of the installation is serious fun, whilst the depths of field explored between dots and grids in the paintings are equally playful. In these Modern Paintings, form is variously brushed, scrawled, scored and gilded, with marks metallic and not, varying in density and shimmering against dark atmospheric grounds. The effect is glorious - a little bit of Persia and western modernism meeting in the miniature.
JS

 

 

 

 

Front gallery - installation views and additional works

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Back gallery - installation views

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Details of works

Front Gallery
Modern Painting #1       mixed media on board       200 x 200mm      
Modern Painting #2       mixed media on board       300 x 300mm      
Modern Painting #3       mixed media on board       200 x 200mm      
Modern Painting #4       mixed media on board       200 x 200mm     
Modern Painting #5       mixed media on board       300 x 300mm      
Modern Painting #6       mixed media on board       200 x 200mm     
Modern Painting #7       mixed media on board       200 x 200mm     
Modern Painting #8       mixed media on board       200 x 200mm      
Modern Painting #9       mixed media on board       610 x 460mm      

Modern Painting (Rorschach) #1   mixed media on book cover  235 x 325mm  
Modern Painting (Rorschach) #2   mixed media on book cover  145 x 290mm      
Modern Painting (Rorschach) #3   mixed media on book cover  145 x 290mm  
Modern Painting (Rorschach) #4   mixed media on book cover  145 x 290mm  
Modern Painting #10     mixed media on book cover  190 x 270mm   

Modern Painting #11     mixed media on board     375 x 280mm fr    
Modern Painting #12     mixed media on board     375 x 280mm fr    
Modern Painting           mixed media on board     915 x 1220mm      

Back Gallery
Modern Painting (Installed Elements)    

All works are from 2018/19