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May 01, 2013

There won't be a summertime this year!

This is just a hallucination.
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April 25, 2013

Viswanadhan featured at Pascaline Mulliez Gallery


The Pascaline Mulliez Gallery 
is pleased to present 
a selection of works 
by the artist 
Velu Viswanadhan

These works cover the period from 1990 
to 2004. 

Opening on April 25 - until June 29, 2013




[G@ttoGiallo]



Why and how were these works chosen?   

 I discovered Viswanadhan recently. The artist, however, has been around for quite some time, stopping in Paris in the 
1960s, where he was noticed and supported by a major Paris gallery. In 2012, at the Fernand Léger Gallery (Ivry-sur-
Seine), I saw his paintings for the first time, which left me both confused and astonished, a sign that his work was taking 
me along paths to places I had never before explored. Among the works shown, one in particular caught my attention, 
and it is from this work (dated 2001) that the selection being exhibited here today was constituted. This selection covers 
a pivotal period in the development of Viswanadhan’s art.

The background of the paintings of that period is white, while the pigments used come from India. Green, red, yellow 

ochre and blue mixed with casein are applied in wide, flat transparent or opaque strokes, organising the painting 
geometrically. Through layer after layer of brush strokes, a subtle play of colours slowly appears. Visually, the 
sensations are shimmering, almost earthy. Varying transparencies and opacities are irregularly woven into the painting, 
inventing endlessly new tonalities and giving off a rare brightness.

Viswanadhan stands over the stretched canvas when he works, a position that he had already adopted as a child, 

when he was tracing the signs of tantric rituals in the sand. Large brush strokes infuse the space of his painting with a 
rhythm, which the artist regularly brings to a halt at the centre of his work, or almost. This simple act suffices to introduce 
an irregular element into the geometric design created by the alternating application of colours. Slowly and regularly, the
strokes follow the same movement, straight and repetitive, while the body moves and revolves around the canvas 
placed on the floor or on a table in the artist’s studio.

The selection of works by Velu Viswanadhan proposed here aims to show the point where the achievements of Indian

culture come together with those of contemporary art; a point of precious equilibrium between uniqueness and 
contemporaneousness.

     Pascaline Mulliez


[Translation Beatrix de Koster, April 2013]

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And on Friday, April 26th 
[Trio Polycordes on Fb]
at 8:30 pm...

As part of the exhibition, a concert will be
given by the 'Trio Polycordes':
- Florentino Calvo, mandolin 
- Sandrine Chatron, harp 
- Jean-Marc Zvellenreuther, guitar
The trio will play some pieces of Félix
Ibarrondo in the occasion of his 70th 
anniversary, in the presence of the 
composer himself.




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April 20, 2013

4:45pm: Penek was still working on Le Mur...

Le M.U.R. - # 140 - Bartek Swiatecki aka Pener - April 20, 2013



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April 15, 2013

Latest from Viswanadhan was... at Artcurial

[Ecoles du Monde]



More than 100 artists, including Enki Bilal, David Lynch, Yan Pei-
Ming, Pierre et Gilles,  Tayou, Viswanadhan - present a work of 
art made from a brick. These unique works of art will be auctioned 
at Artcurial - Briest-Poulain-Tajan - on Monday, April 15, 2013, for 
the benefit of charity association 'Ecoles du Monde', founded 15 
years ago and chaired by Charles Gassot.






[Artcurial, Paris]























Ecoles du Monde-Vimeo '100 bricks for Madagascar'


... Auction Results271,650 €
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April 11, 2013

Cuddle for all on Le MUR...


Le M.U.R. - # 139 - Shadee K. - April 11, 2013

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