Visual Scriptures, a solo show by Jagmohan Bangani at Creativity Art Gallery, is ‘The works of art is a Self- Concept not a one-off action to me’, says the artist.
Sounds take the shape of words, words overlap in language and meaning until it becomes an experience and surcharge of emotions. I am exploring abstraction by using text, word, a group of words and scripts which carry some natural or spiritual meanings, and encounter frequently in our daily life. Gaining new experiences with experimenting different text forms over the canvas surface is a sole drive to develop my art work from the beginning phase to the outcome. I use texts from Sanskrit, Hindi, Panjabi and English languages in my work and I receive different outcome because the text shapes of each languages are quite dissimilar to each other.
By following my perception, the composition evolves as a continuous process of a metaphor by using several layers of texts. I attempt to harness the inner movement and thoughts of life which is inspired by the realm of the nature to create images from the inner world, that lies somewhere between creation and the existence. The inner strata which I want to hide are overlapped by using different colours for keeping the emotions or massages more securely. Usually I do prefer an opaque or translucent layer of colours by merging texts with each other, which certainly shows an idea of dispersion in my work. For me, the use of space, colours and lines are varied according to the text. The certain use of surface with specific division between the texts and words create an expected space, which is accumulated to structure an individual depth; and therefore, one can easily go through or understand the meaning and connection between the used texts.
