KATHMANDU, OCTOBER 30

London-based Nepali artist Govinda Sah 'Azad' will display his art work at the October Gallery from 1 December 2022 to 28 January 2023.

The fourth solo exhibition in London by Govinda Sah 'Azad' will bring together a new body of large-scale and smaller paintings rendered in oil and acrylic on linen and canvas. The works are informed with Sah's intriguing combination of insights into his local environment and his ongoing metaphysical musings about the nature of reality itself, according to a press release issued by Sah's secretariat. Sah's work is composed of densely interwoven layers of mark-making, using oil and acrylic in what Sah describes as a 'long unfolding conversation between the artist and his canvas.'

The painting 'replies' by proposing new areas for consideration and further exploration of the process continues until a successful balance point is reached. Works like Absence Presence become an example of a 'logo visual' approach to grappling with the conundrums that beset all of us; the paintings grew out of isolation and the artist's feelings of separation from his distant family during the 'lockdown'.

A version of this article appears in the print on October 31, 2022 of The Himalayan Times.