MODERN LEAVS II Painting

Devidas Agase is a young conceptual artist comes from a village Kuntephal, Beed, District, Marathvada region of Maharashtra State, India. Beed is a historical place of possibly medieval origin. The city has its architectural remains and artist grown up with this artistic surrounding. Devidas born in 1986, he has done his BFA in 2011 and MFA in 2013 from Sir J.J.School of art, Mumbai. In his recent works he deals with the struggle between the speculative and the moral complexities of his own life. The title of his show helps us to connect to the visuals of his paintings. The human head comes frequently but it has no particular identity, visualized as in search of identity. Non representative, distorted forms, colorful flowers, depiction of brain, thick lines and checks treated with hinges, noble and limited pallet of colors, these are the major salient feature of his painting. Basically he plays with very limited magnitude of colors and forms; still it makes successive dialogue within it