Pandurang Tathe

LANDSCAPE : Seen Through
Although, while painting a landscape ,artist’s main concern could be to depict natural elements like trees ,mountains, and water bodies etc. To convey various moods , the artist is also structuring space in a certain way. However, Mr Pandurang Tathe in his paintings retains merely dim associations with the natural objects eliminating detailed semblance and moulds pictorial space with energetic brush strokes , dashes and dabs. There rhythmic turns and twists of the brush marks are records of gestures indicating transitory mental state of the artist. Those also denote animated and static features of the painting. This duality of the brush marks creates the desired ambiguity inviting viewer to comprehend the emerged spatial structure. Some of the paintings in a horizontal format with predominantly colours like brown , black and grey accelerate sense of receding space where as in some vertical composition; colours assume a role of protagonist. For instance in two paintings’ one with large expanse of green and other with greys where tonal range is wide, produce impression of light as if from unknown source inducing mystic effect.
One can see several tendencies in Tathe’s drawings in terms of t...

Pandurang Tathe was born in Pune , 21 march 1961. He has completed training in Art at the Abhinav Kala Mahavidyalay(Art School); M.F.A from Department of Fine Art , Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathawada University ,Aurangabad,2014. He works as a Assistant Lecturer (1988) for last 29 years at the Dept. of Fine Art , Abhinav Kala Mahavidyalay ,Pune .Pandurang is a creative artist work in the field of Contempory Indian At from last 35 years.

Exhibitions
Selected Solo Exhibitions
• 2015 Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
• 2009 Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
• 2008 Hacienda Art Gallery, Mumbai
• 2008 Jamat Art Gallery, Mumbai
• 2007 Art Point Gallery, Mumbai
• 2007 Ray Art Gallery, Pune
• 2007 Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
• 2004 Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
• 2001 Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
• 1997 Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
• 1997 Balgandharva Kala Dalan, Pune
• 1992 The Heritage Art Gallery, Chennai
• 1991 Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai

Selected Group Exhibitions
• 2009 Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai
• 2009 Ishanya Art Gallery, Pune
• 2008 Mosaic Art Gallery, Singapore
• 2005,06,07,08 Jammat Art Gallery, Mumbai
• 2007,08 ‘Art Fusion’, Nehru Centre, Mumbai.
• 2005,06,07 Art for Cancer, Cymroza Art Gallery, Mumbai.
• 2006 India Art Gallery :Pride of Maharashtra, Pune
• 2000 ‘Sketches for New Millennium’, The Easel Art Gallery, Chennai.
• 1997,2007 Cancer Patient Aid Association, Holiday Inn Gallery, Pune
• 1997 Creating Heritage 5 Millennea of Contemporary India Art, Y. B. Chauhan Art Gallery, Mumbai
• 1996 Shri Dnyaneshwar Nadkarni’s 50 years as an Art Critic, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
• 1993,94,95,96,97 ‘Affordable Art Sho...