Description
An established, self-taught artist from Bangalore, A. V. Ilango was born in Gobichettipalayam, a town in Tamil Nadu on 17 March 1950. The rural background has left an indelible impression in his formative years as he uses these memories as inspirations that inform his artworks and influence his rich colour palette. In India, art, culture, religion and rituals are interwoven in daily life. There is a fine line that separates Indian aesthetics and Hindu rituals. In traditional visual and performing arts, symbolism renders the classical arts more appealing for the initiated and the erudite while the folk arts are integrated by all in festivities. Ilango traces the bovine form and symbol as an idiom that is closely related to man from Prehistory to the Modern era.
His works depict Indian characters, culture, religion and rituals presented as part of everyday-life. Apart from human figures, the artist has been studying the most familiar of the Indian animals – the bull, the motif having been an integral part of primitive, folk and classical Indian art. The artworks are rendered with angular brush strokes that suggest an energy, thus reflecting the energy of the bulls.
In 2007, he founded Artspace in Chennai
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