The Statuette Of Vivacity | Dinkar Jadhav Solo

Capturing emotions in art is a pursuit of perfection. Artists experiment with mediums, compositions, and subjects to reflect emotions and feelings which fail words. Dinkar Jadhav’s oeuvre showcased here is an endeavor in this pursuit. 

Dinkar’s latest collection captures the spirit of effervescence in the living – the emotion of vivacity. He uses a primal imagery, theform of two majestic beasts – the horse and the bull to represent this emotion.

Horses and bulls are seen as two naturally energetic creatures, and the epitome of high spirits. Their quintessential motion is animated, untethered and unconstrained. The typical gallop or stride is more aerial than terrestrial, and reflects motion not tied to theearth but driven by the progression forward. Dinkar captures this energy, the untethered joy and single mindedness to move with liveliness on his canvas. The contortions of motion represent the precise moment when the natural energy is at its peak, and both the antecedent and precedent of this moment can be clearly envisaged. 

Dinkar’s bulls and horses are stylized to prevent the subject from being engulfed with familiarity. He renders the animals as cubism inspired angular representations but ensures that there is enough relatedness to the animal form even from afar. He deftly uses pivotally drawn lines across contexts – in different parts, these show the aggression seen in the contorted head of the male horse or the bull, the boundary between one part of the canvas to another part demonstrating a metaphorical transcension, or the strained muscles of the galloping animals. 

Dinkar brings out his signature technique of creating pastel like textures, using multiple layers of acrylic colors in this collection, for which he has received much acclaim. He has further accentuated this using metallic colours – a restrained effort to bring in the right balance of highlights to the imagery. 

This is Dinkar’s pursuit to capture the emotion of vivacity through nature’s most primal motion – a pursuit where he comes strikingly close to perfection.