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Lot Essay
Sakti Burman has been often called an "alchemist of dreams". "His themes, products of his sensibility and imagination, coupled with his mastery of technique, glorify womanhood, faces and their reflection, - the mirror, birds, shells - a fiesta of senses...nothing can be more poetical. A harmonious universe pervaded with a universal experience..." (Michael Bohbot, Sakti Burman, Alchemist of Dreams, Paris, 1984.)
The artist states: "A sensation from the outside world suddenly hits me, upsets me. My feelings grow to such an extent that I find it necessary to give them a form in order to free myself from them. A painting is for me, an explanation that I owe myself. Silence and meditation have opened to me a world where nothing is impossible. I am suddenly conscious of a new life-force that compels me to express myself and define what I see. Next comes the joy of work, the pleasure of handling colours which fascinate me. My love of life seems complete only when I have put it down on my canvas. It is an intense joy." (As told to Del Teil, 'Indian Painters In Paris', Lalit Kala Contemporary 4, April 1996, p. 12.)
The artist states: "A sensation from the outside world suddenly hits me, upsets me. My feelings grow to such an extent that I find it necessary to give them a form in order to free myself from them. A painting is for me, an explanation that I owe myself. Silence and meditation have opened to me a world where nothing is impossible. I am suddenly conscious of a new life-force that compels me to express myself and define what I see. Next comes the joy of work, the pleasure of handling colours which fascinate me. My love of life seems complete only when I have put it down on my canvas. It is an intense joy." (As told to Del Teil, 'Indian Painters In Paris', Lalit Kala Contemporary 4, April 1996, p. 12.)