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'Radiations' pictured in Raza's studio in Gorbioin the early 1990s
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Sayed Haider Raza
Radiations, 1993
Acrylic on canvas
27 x 19 cm
10 5/8 x 7 1/2 in
10 5/8 x 7 1/2 in
Signed, dated, titled and inscribed 'RAZA/ 1993/ 27 x 19cm/ "Radiations"/ Acrylique sur toile/ Amicalement a Marie-Laure/ RAZA/ Dec 93'
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'Radiation - horizontal, vertical or circular - can develop in the most natural way (into) a multitude of forms. First, with the intersection of black and white; and with energy,...
"Radiation - horizontal, vertical or circular - can develop in the most natural way (into) a multitude of forms. First, with the intersection of black and white; and with energy, colours come up. The most important colour is black. The encounter is with light; and tremendous activity can develop out of this encounter. As the colours appear, first dimly, you see the yellow, red and blue. Along with white and black, they form the most important elements which constitute the visual spectrum – with which all the colours can be made.
"The heartbeat of the painting depends on the right orchestration of these elements, and their variations. A vocabulary of form develops naturally, the vision grows, and the painter requires technical competence and insight.
"The highest perception is of an intuitive order, where all human faculties participate, including the intellect – which is ultimately a minor participant in the creative process. Whatever direction the expression may take, the language of form imposes its own inner logic, and reveals its self with infinite variations and mutations. The mind can perceive these mysteries only partially.
"This stage is total bliss, and defies analysis."
S.H. Raza, quoted in; Geeti Sen, 'Bindu, Space and Time in Raza’s Vision', Media Transasia Ltd, New Delhi, 1997
"The heartbeat of the painting depends on the right orchestration of these elements, and their variations. A vocabulary of form develops naturally, the vision grows, and the painter requires technical competence and insight.
"The highest perception is of an intuitive order, where all human faculties participate, including the intellect – which is ultimately a minor participant in the creative process. Whatever direction the expression may take, the language of form imposes its own inner logic, and reveals its self with infinite variations and mutations. The mind can perceive these mysteries only partially.
"This stage is total bliss, and defies analysis."
S.H. Raza, quoted in; Geeti Sen, 'Bindu, Space and Time in Raza’s Vision', Media Transasia Ltd, New Delhi, 1997
Provenance
Private collection, Paris; acquired directly from the artistGrosvenor Gallery, London
Exhibitions
Perfect-Presence, Joost van den Burgh, London, November 2019 (illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, No. 121, p. 112)Sayed Haider Raza, Grosvenor Gallery, London, 29 March - 21 April, 2023, No. 20, (illustrated in the exhibition catalogue p. 61)
Literature
RAZA/TANTRA, Frieze Masters (exhibition catalogue), Grosvenor Gallery, London, 2019, p. 4
This work will be included in a forthcoming edition of SH RAZA, Catalogue Raisonné, currently in preparation by Anne Macklin on behalf of The Raza Foundation, New Delhi.