Uma Shankar Pathak

My canvases present a concrete vista of the urbanity synchronised with the nuances of rural live. They affirmatively speak about the spontaneous and restless acts of the migrated day-labourers. The imageries further tend in mirroring the rigidity and flexibility of the urban-rural life suggested through the constructive abstract forms. The street lights, zebra, zebra-crossing etc acts as a metaphor of such urban rigidity as opposed to the plough-share, mostly seen in my earlier paintings as a central object or platform projecting the concept of ‘nothing in everything’ .Here I quoted ‘nothing in everything’, in order to emphasize the very nature of men’s vast expectation that- he runs after everything and when he gets everything, he is satisfied by nothing.

Pathak completed his Bachelor of Fine Arts from College of Art & Crafts, Patna, 2007 and Master of Fine Arts from Pracheen Kala Kendra Chandigarh 2009

As an artist, I took this as a subject in revealing my artistic emotions, for the reason that I too am a man of blood and flash and like every other individual I have also remained a victim of the so-called ‘expectation’. Moreover being personal I have been hailed from a farmer family and when came to this city as a migrants with eyes full of desires. So, when I see the roaming numbers in the roads, stations, buses, etc., I just amaze on thinking about their degree of expectation and to what extent are they going to be satisfied. My imageries are just a mere display of certain emotions leading to the issues of difference that man has brought to himself for the sake of the fulfilment of desires. Therefore, most often I try to communicate this flavour of unending quest to my audience-either physically or virtually.