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Comments by People : Eliana Andrade (Norway) |
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From Unknown to the Best Known by Eliana Andrade |
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Sunil Kumar wasn't known to me until 2010. I found his talent while searching for a native of India willing to help me learn Hindi. While I found many interesting people, generous enough to give their time to exchange language skills, only Sunil caught my attention. I contacted him and discovered he is more than both willing and able as well, to teach anyone, on any level, the intricacies of this language and further more, an artist capable of opening a door to a deeper knowledge of India's face and place in this world. A pride to be beheld among the most admirable Indians I have learned about, through printed history and close general contact with people too. He is for me the cosmic embodiment of "Art India" in his integrity along with a man in search of absolute purity, impressions and expressions. Suké as I have observed in my own search, for my contentment and awareness, is a born artist and he seems to know his divine duty, or to naturally translate the collective waves of yearnings universally present as he awakens in his strokes and words all meaningful necessary truths absorbed in his conscience but embellished by his hands. That's how he delivers back to us what is to a world of contrasted sights, a corrective lens, as soothing as glasses to tired eyes. Sunil may even appear as a humble professional (as many great thinkers are), a local painter, writer never ceasing to be interested in learning from external as internal inspirational material but who has the rarest capacity of reaching out and touching a person's inner core with simultaneous self - learning and teaching qualities in a format that makes him accessible and fascinating even to the international public in my opinion. His written and painted art is both simple and ingenious, very complex but very understandable once one uses the key to hear what he is telling us. This key is to view him as unique as a creature of God, with a message of uncompromising balance between aesthetics harmony and mediunic visions. A creativity as inspirational as this sort of gift Suké has, can only come from a divine place within and without a committed artist. The aspect of his own living as a continuum of what Ayurveda came to signify for outsiders, of the Indian absolute non-altered traditional wisdom is a testimony to how authentically Indian and yet universal/global he reveals himself through portraying . The science of life, in international recent imported context, known as the set of rules and natural findings comparable to mainstream science and modern medicine, is akin to its real identity, which truly lays in the oral teachings and hands of important men such as Sunil Kumar, in as much as in the traditions passed forward through scholars. Suké lives and breathes the science of life in daily divine quest, even because he is clearly connected to a supernatural source of creativity and in his rapturous images as a result, he evokes the same compelling reaction as his verbal eloquence, catalyzing a deep self-interpretation which is powerful enough to unify discerning thoughts into words, words into paintings, while in the process, he appreciates the means as the end and vice-verse. His work is holistic in this sense. If a picture is worth a thousand words, a paint by Suké is result of a thousand dreams times a thousand realities times a thousand translations of cosmic flashes of revealed mystic accuracy. If one looks up truth in a dictionary, one synonym for truth, is "picture". I think Suké brings it forth with legitimate purpose. Suké's art is truth based and results in truth manifested. Unfettered by modern spiritual or moral corruption, he remains non prejudicial, nor irate by the recognition of sad gradual dissolution of pure Indian values. He pauses in reflection of this fact but is determined in his agenda of keeping aware about the former counter force, not reluctantly dedicating his existence to perpetuating the continuity of essential values which make India endure as the cradle of pure spiritual geniuses. In other words, he does not "talk the talk" but he "walks the walk", requiring of himself discipline and the choice to rise above mediocrity, popularity or marketability concerns. His highest purposes are seen as result of him being true to the connection and sensibility cosmically influenced . Some artists bring us God's given gift to the eyes of admiring mortals. I suspect Suké may present his art to God and as he professes such talent, it must be appealing even to the eyes of the creator. It remains for us, in our turn, to observe his mission. As spectators, we are best served by watching his dialog with God and resigning from estimating or dissecting each image contemplated with our human scrutiny. That being said, I can't and don't profess to be an expert in art, my professional skills are the result of studying medical esthetics and cosmetic dermatology, so my clinical eyes have dwelled in the spectrum of human beauty and the improvement of facial and body health and/or beauty. I have visited however the great museums of Europe, USA and South America being able to admire all forms of classical art, ancient, modern or sacred in the historical context, so as a lay person, my tastes are based on variety and quantity of these "quality" places I have been experiencing when picking my favorite architecture, textiles, or decorative styles. Sunil communicates, with his esthetic, a significant and genuine idea. At first I couldn't help but be reminded of Salvador Dali's surrealistic modes of creativity since I admired his works having visited his permanent biggest collection exhibit in Florida. However Suké is not a sensationalism seeking anarchist as Dali-and his sobriety and dignity of his category of surrealism comes across to me as divinity inspired versus chaotic beauty oriented. I couldn't neither place Jung's psychiatric genius and ground breaking symbolism studies in reflexion of the personification of the self seen in some pieces of art I enjoyed by Sunil Kumar. The latter being actually more clear and approachable, thus more didactic in reaching the average pubic. Suké succeeds in making the unconscious reasonably understood by treating the subject of transcendence with the encouraging simplicity of impeccable combinations of dream and reality. There hasn't been so far any subject approached by Sunil Kumar that doesn't resonate as profoundly analyzed and his response never fail to channel the purity of an illuminating heart. He is capable of answering such wide-ranging questions we ask ourselves and even God, with graciousness, deep concern for the improvement of our world, both outside and internal conflicts, with elegance and clarity. His art conveys the same to me, coincidentally or not, his works attract friends from all corners of the world who showed interest in him (the artist) too; having lived in many continents and countries I am the one who never left friendship behind, I am not surprised this art finds an eclectic public who may soon increase internationally. In my contact with Sunil Kumar therefore, I came to be introduced with delight, to a new India: - A soil, soul and Suké reality come alive fairytale; an ageless amusement of images and colors, custom made words soothing to the intellect, balancing for the mind. Suké without risking exaggeration, is a welcome medicine to those disappointed with stagnant, repetitive standardization of principles in art, strength in character or valuable counsel. Integrity is one tool he uses in creating his genuine interpretations. My hope and wish is for such art to reach plentiful fortunate followers in search of beauty in its elemental form. His clarity is powerful. May his art also manifest itself through a multitude of endless creative endeavors in the name of divinity, for the world can benefit from his fantastic compositions of beauty, energetic colors, kind and eye opening insightful writing.
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