Mahirwan Mamtani
Mahirwan Mamtani ( born November 2, 1935 in Bhiria ( Nawabshah ) Sindh, India) is a painter, graphic designer and multimedia artist.
Mamtani grew up in India, studied there and moved at the age of 31 years to Germany, where he has lived and worked ever since.
- 7.1 Solo exhibitions ( selection of over 30 worldwide)
- 7.2 Group exhibitions ( selection)
Youth
Mahirwan Mamtani began as a child in Sindh at the age of six years with the painting, mainly with charcoal on walls and walls. He retired at the age of 12 years after the division of India in 1947 to Delhi. He had a relatively difficult childhood, had for bad living conditions in the hospital bed, without education, learning. He then worked preferably with pencil and / or pastels. Later, his early professional life forced him to take a break from painting, as he had more work to get ends meet at the same time accept. Then he began evening classes to study for a Bachelor of Arts degree and was admitted a little later in the Fine Arts Department of Delhi Polytechnic in New Delhi to study painting. He finished his studies in 1962 with the National Diploma in Art from.
In 1966 he received a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service for the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Prof. Franz nail. Since that time, he lives with his family in Bavaria.
Further development
Already at the beginning of his studies Mamtani was known the search Kandinsky, one of the pioneers of modernism, for a spiritual dimension in art. Mamtani emphasizes that this spiritual relationship is not subject to any limitation in time and both can already be observed in the 18th century when William Blake, as well as Joseph Beuys, which was based on influences of Anthroposophy Rudolf Steiner.
In Munich the sixties Mamtani was strongly influenced by constructivism and also let the encounters made from his youth in India with tantric yantras in his work incorporated. This then was the "Centro Vision ," a collection comprised the in 1990 over 3000 works.
Compiled quote
"The concept of " Centro Vision ", based on the Mamtani itself is borrowed from the tantric teachings. His visual forms that unfold out of the center, are related to the concept of mandala, which is based on the fundamental laws of the microcosm and the macrocosm. The association of procreation processes aroused by rhythmic arrangements symmetrical, organic curved shapes whose roots are to be found in the feminine, as the shape of the breasts and of the female organ, the symbol of Shakti, the highest cosmic energy. In place of the radiant light appear dim light values in these images; they are created by the mixture of colors with soft lighting and play an important role in the modulation of the pulsating circular shapes. "
His early multimedia projects include, among others, its graphical animation films Centro Vision ( 1981) and Faces ( 1982).
From about 1990, after working on Centro vision, he began to build on an idea that was already in 1985 appeared in some of his works: he let incorporated faces. For this, he painted on wood masks - worn itself and interpreted in dance - the basis for various photo and video projects. Using a self-timer he made to photos and video recordings of his movements, which then - were painted over and led to his series " Trans Muted photos " - using acrylic paints. In addition, he created mixed technical work.
In 2000, he painted figurative paintings, in which his Mandala masks constitute the dominant element. His goal was to manifest human emotions graphically represented in the form of masks. To this end, he said "We all wear masks constantly, we often change, but do not remove. " This Cyklus of figurative works he called "Mandala Conscious Beings".
To 2003, he began a series of videos, based on previously published by him paintings.
Works
In India Mamtani is expected in a group of Neo - Tantra artist and presented with colleagues such as Biren De, GR Santosh, K.C.S. Paniker, Sohan Qadri, Proffula Mohanti, Haridasan, PT Reddy, Om Prakash and Viswanathan composed in German and American museums.
In Europe, he belongs to the group THE SPIRITUAL IN ART, which includes Domenico Caneschi, Italy - Pietro Gentili, Italy - Guy Harloff, France - Joerg Anton Schulthess, Switzerland - Nora Ullmann, Israel belong. This group was raised in the 70s by Dr. Walter Schoenberger, the then director of the Museum of Lugano from the baptism and organized numerous exhibitions in Locarno, Aarau, Milan and Bochum.
" The now lives in Munich painter Mahirwan Mamtani (born 1935) has built a bridge between Tantrism and the complex esoteric currents of the western world with its classic, large-format > Centro visions ." His visual metaphysics leads in the beginning and at the end of the outer and inner space, touching the ideas of unity and wholeness. Especially MAMTANIS Mandala paintings are appreciated by Western observers as highlights of the esoteric New Age art. "
Graphic editions
- Edition modern art gallery, Berlin
- Bruckmann Verlag, Munich
- Kunstverein, Munich
- Gallery Toni Brechbühl, Grenchen
- Gallery Regio Freiburg
- Gallery cup, Wuppertal
- Edition Galerie Aquarius, Munich