Summary:
Quicksilver imaginationThese simple elements, more than any high philosophical thought, go into the making of Haloi’s art. In every fresh exhibition, Haloi reveals a new aspect of his psyche that was not presented earlier in so significant a manner. Although the steps are rendered with mathematical precision, there is nothing cold or austere about Haloi’s paintings. In free formHuman presence is absent from Haloi’s paintings, except for stray exceptions. ON SHOW: Ganesh Haloi: Poetics of Abstraction, January 15-February 24 at Akar Prakar, KolkataThe writer is particularly fond of Old Buildings..