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Alok Uniyal Qualification Award Exhibition Solo Show Group Shows Participated in a number of Art Camps and several prestigious group shows including the India art Fair Collections Assignment EDEN OF THE HEART Going over the paintings Alok Uniyal has done during the years we are led to ponder the meaning of his latest works. Artists, like everyone else, use their eyes, at the best of
times they do so more lovingly. Such looking is no mere act of
recognition, no convenient labeling to distinguish one object from
another. A word may well supply an exact definition or hint at
indescribable wonders and looking may be an act of convenience or the
means of rapture. It all depends not on the eyes, but rather on the
mind, and the will and the heart, yes, the whole spirit of a man. Our eyes, allowing for defects, which can be adjusted, show us
all the same world. It is for us to choose how we will direct them. It
is clear remembering Uniyal's Kashmir, that he would rather look like
all sensitive artist, out of the window watching a view for other kinds
of messages whether from the changing light or the landscape, etc. The
light and eyes are a means of a specific end. Seeing, as a mechanism is
of course a miraculous affair of lenses and vibrations governed by exact
laws for all men. But that greater miracle of individual perception
just cannot be formulated or legislated or restricted. In this way there
is no limit to the artistic vision or to an individual's artistic
spirit. Since art or artistic vision are free, art making is an
adventure beckoning artists to life's mystery and then on to the
expression of mystery in paint, on canvas or any other material. Uniyal puts no limits to his ability to achieve his heart's
desire by sheer looking, a dispassionate but affectionate looking. His
sense of adventure never fades nor does his eagerness dwindle. It
appears that in Kashmir his goodwill directed his eyes for amassing an
'income' of delight. It was this intent look which he possesses in
abundance that all artists cultivate. After all it is not the things we
are forced to look at that matter, as much as the things we choose to
look at. This is how Uniyal has got right down to the anatomy of nature,
a feel for its underlying structure, and the flow of living form. His
works are no sketchy, hasty business. The human figure offers the artist
an ideal means of developing his perception, as much as the qualities
of the rhythmic movement. In Kashmir landscape this same task awaited
him repeatedly. Still the subject he chooses from nature was of course a
very personal matter. Thus we have his often blemish less in-scapes of a
calm beauty. -Keshav Malik
Many private collections in India and abroad.
