Sachin S Jaltare

Sachin Jaltare’s works hover between the form and the formless, challenging the viewer to read between the broad brushstrokes. The figures, Shiva and Shakti, camouflaged in the gust of his colour palette of deep grey and economically stroked blues and vermilions, appear inward-looking with their eyes closed, a conscious signature adopted very early by the artist. Although he initiated from a very distinct figurative tradition he felt the figurative form limited the freedom and the vastness within him.

And ultimately, in the concept of ‘Shiva and Shakti,’ he liberated his art and himself from the limiting lines of the human body. “In Shiva and Shakti, I find the perfect meeting of the form and the formless.

“When I started contemplating abstracts about eight years ago, my thoughts would invariably turn to articulate the unsaid. This feeling of universality, despite all of us being trapped in our forms, is when I found the right expression in Shiva, who is everything yet nothing, who is in every atom, but beyond definition,” says Jaltare.