Clippings from newspapers and magazines. Cardboard. Myriad colours and textures. Sepia-tinged paper. Pages from his artistic biography… All this and more seamlessly merge deep undertones of uncertainty with a sense of joie de vivre as part of octogenarian artist SG Vasudev’s recent exhibition of collages, ‘Montage of Memories’, at Gallery Sumukha, Bengaluru.
“Almost a year-and-a-half ago, Premilla Baid of the Sumukha Gallery told me that she would like to celebrate 25 years of the gallery in 2021 and that one of the events should be my exhibition. I happily accepted the offer,” he says. The pandemic meant that Vasudev could not go to his large studio or his farm studio (at an hour’s drive from the city). Not to give up, he started doing some drawings at home and began pasting some glazed silver and gold colour wedding invitations on to the drawings.