Natvar Bhavsar

Aicon is delighted to present Natvar Bhavsar Part III, a solo exhibition of early works by the eponymous seasoned New York artist. The show marks the third chapter in the ongoing story of Bhavsar being told at the gallery. It picks up two years after the previous exhibition, Sublime Light, and includes fourteen paintings created between 1987 and 2005.

The canvases in the present exhibition represent a move away from the cubist blocks of the 1960s and vertical flashes of the 1970s toward an exploration of color fields and the universality of color. In the artist's own words, "Every time I look at a painting, what invites me to get absorbed is the experience of color."

The billowing cloud-like areas in AASO and ADREE, whose surfaces are striated like mountainous ranges seen from outer space, are a new direction for the artist in this period. The formal structures of the early years have been eradicated to give way to a much more inclusive, expansive, and dramatic composition, which Bhavsar continues to explore and paint today.

Through his practice, Bhavsar has succeeded where other great artists have failed in the past in that his works encompass the elusive 'Theory of Everything'—the theoretical, singular, all-encompassing, coherent framework of the Universe that thoroughly explains and links together all physical aspects from the miniature to the monumental.