Ethereal Transition

Prabakhar Barwe's works employ the conceptual devices of Surrealism placing a series of banal objects and ephemeral shapes in atypical composition. Painting a few isolated forms on a canvas, the artist allows each form to exist in its own right, related to, but not disturbing, those around it. In understanding the metal processes which arrive at one of his finished canvas, the artist believes that the visual experience, created by concrete components which are synthesized within his abstract paintings,"is like a thought-free space of the mind, or like an undivided, unruffled mental state". According to the artist concrete ideas may result in abstract forms in his paintings, or alternatively abstract mental concepts may emerge in his work as a concrete forms. He states "my effort is to examine how and where the concrete and the abstract meet in the course of such journeys." (Prabhakar Barwe, Gallery Chemould, 1992, unpaginated)