AKHILESH VERMA’S paintings combine geometric spirituality and delightful harmony in the expressive shades that generate melodious impression in spite of straight lines. Subtle curves alleviate the monotony of the horizontals and verticals, while arcs and diagonals seek to lighten the heavy triangles.
In Tantric art, triangles symbolize the yoni, but in these paintings, the shapes are not intentional for, according to the artist, they are merely the meeting of three diagonally placed lines. There is an understated tension in every painting defining its unique temperament. The precisely dividing yet indistinct contours show a gently light and ethereally elevating composition through juxtaposed colour. While one rectangle of colour may be meaningless, as a composite they render a symphony. Carefully chosen greens, blues, browns and ochre’s, each having its specific position dances to an eternal tune. This series of paintings on which he has been working for the past two years is titled `Apsaras,’ referring to those divine beings born to seduce the senses in Indian mythology. In their distinctive manner these paintings also seduce the viewer.
