Golden silence
SHIV KUMAR PUSHPAKAR
Satish Gujral with some of his works that were exhibited at Lalit Kala Akademi in April, at his Lajpat Nagar home in
From the world of silence that he inhabited for most of his life to the world of sounds for a few years and then back to the world of silence. Satish Gujral's life is an endearing saga of wisdom, resilience, patience, audacity, vigour and a never-say-no attitude. From exchanging juvenile jokes with youngsters to talking about Partition, the octogenarian shows various shades of his personality in just one meeting.
Gujral got a hearing implant in 1996 in Sydney, but he removed it four years ago. His wife, Kiran, says: “It was bothering him with unnecessary sounds and was a nuisance for his concentration.” So Gujral is back to his soundless world, and Kiran is back at her role as the interpreter whose lips he understands most. “He is happy in his own creative world,” she says, looking at him fondly. Gujral reads her lips, smiles and nods his head in agreement.
If his works are testimony to his personality, then Satish Gujral is a die-hard romantic, irreparably hopeful and highly poetic. Unlike his earlier, multi-hued work, his 35 new paintings and 20 sculptures exhibited at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, from April 7 to 13, wore a more sombre look, as if announcing his age and maturity. They consist of barely three tones of the palette; copper, black and brown fused to make an unusual luminous gold. The play of light and shade lends them an element of drama. The architectural depth in his paintings makes them further restrained. The spongy feel of his pliant brush makes them three dimensional.
In these creations, Gujral plays with kite, musical instruments and a fusion of man and animal, the recurring symbols in his work. His subjects (men/women) hold the kite fondly. A few lyrically fly with it with the rhythm of accomplished dancers. Their dresses flutter, indicating that they are hung in the sky in a breezy morning.
In other paintings Gujral seals man and animal, but he provides his man leverage over the sturdy animal; usually a horse or a bull. While the man harnesses the animal, he simultaneously seems to relish music. He holds a flute dotingly while controlling a bull. One remembers Gujral's fetish for music. The last he heard music was at the age of nine. Those were ghazals sung by K.L. Saigal, Begum Akhtar, Mehdi Hasan and K.C Dubey, his favourite singers. Then he met with an accident, which deprived him of his hearing and speech. But Gujral would attend qawwali concerts just to see the artistes emote while rendering the songs. He would tap his fingers on the armrest of his seat, connecting to the emotions of the artiste and ‘feeling' the music. The emotional satisfaction he derived from the experience reflected in his works. His works of those days featured musicians playing the tabla, the sitar and the mridangam or even Ganesha performing to the tune of a veena player.
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Gujral himself attributes the rhythm in his works to his love of music and poetry. “From early childhood my father introduced me to Urdu literature, including poetry. I soaked myself in the poetry of Ghalib, Iqbal and Faiz in almost every mood.
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