Taking Art Beyond The Kochi Biennale

Following an accident many years ago, Bose Krishnamachari says he had visions of these colours and forms during his comatose state. He has made it his USP and continued to paint in this style ever since.

Sandeep & Gitanjali Maini Foundation, in associating with gallery g, have patronised the artist for several years now and have successfully placed his works in many prestigious collections. In 2018 gallery g conducted a show of his work and sold more than 16 pieces to collectors.

Considered one of India's most brilliant artistic minds, SGMF's Gitanjali Maini has collected a large number of Komu's work. She also commissioned him to curate the art for an extremely high-end luxury hotel property in Bangalore.

The artist's work is often complex, yet unseemingly simple. He paints in different styles; in this portrait of a young girl Komu has used realism. His portraits have a photographic nature to them, he captures the expression in his subject's eyes brilliantly.

The slight blur, intentionally created, is used to drive home the message that 'what you see is not always what you get.' He choses to speak his mind with his brush, his thoughts are deep and often political. He is considered one of the best political satirists in India.

A map is a representation of the physical geography of the earth. In this work he has attempted to capture Bangalore's modernity, showing hints of its glorious past through the fortress-like representation of its boundaries and hundreds of soldiers guarding it.

The artist works with reclaimed teak wood and uses a process called vinyl photo transfer onto a finished panel of wood. Here he has used a Google Map image of Bangalore city, and transferred it onto 12 wood panels, each a 3 foot square.

“There is a method in his madness”- Polonius (Hamlet Act II, scene II)

T R Upendranath's painting exemplify a methodical madness to his work. Perhaps stemming from the fact that he has no formal education in art, he tends to examine everything around him in fragments.

"There is an architecture worldwide of humans who have been pushed to the margins. This is experienced as a meta-narrative and invite us to consider the outstanding problems facing humankind today," explains the artist as he tries to deconstruct his abstract cityscapes for us.

In 2020 he received a grant from the Sandeep & Gitanjali Maini Foundation to create a new series of work titled 'Taamara: The Genesis of Nature'. The artist created 11 works on different medium varying from canvas, paper to wooden board.

The artist took only 6 months to create this elaborate body of work, ranging in sizes from as small as 24 by 36 inches to as elaborate as 60 by 84 inches. This was the first time the artist had shown his work in Bangalore.