The duality in the title invites introspection. Knowledge, recognition, and memories highlight the artist’s questions about his relationships. In the process of seeking what has been lost or trying to comprehend the incomplete truths, we are reminded of the need to understand. Yet, the inherent incompleteness of self compels us to ask if it is ever possible to achieve a complete understanding, or if we are stuck in the gap between absence and truth.
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| Artist: Ganesh Tartare |
This concept is frequently explored in philosophy, literature, and art. However, in the changed global context after World War II, this concept has led to significant transformations in literature and art. Deep emotional consequences have led to new turns in visual art, where questions of morality and the meaning of existence emerge. Artists primarily used the freedom of expression for self-created research. It seems the world flows through these parallel threads. In art, the act and medium of expression became liberated to reflect emotional existence, and the impact of this change on creation has been permanent. In literature, the struggle with incomplete truth is a major theme, where characters seek meaning in the absence of clarity. In such works, the search for truth is not just about uncovering a final truth but understanding the limitations of human experience and the space between fragments. Many artists and writers have shed light on the incompleteness of human existence and the limits of knowledge through their works. The poetry of grace, for instance, reflects on the complexity of existence and the limits of knowledge. Their concepts invite us to embrace humility, wonder, and the mystery of existence.
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Dr. Ganesh Tartare’s charcoal works represent “What Remains Not” — a space created by the absence of experiences, the loss of possibilities, and the fragmentation of memories. They are the remnants of what could have been. The powdery charcoal shapes are like the imaginary scent of a forgotten summer, reflecting the transient nature of existence. The unsaid words linger, wandering in the quiet corners of consciousness. The realization that much of our life and potential remains forever unexpressed creates a vast, silent ocean of ‘no,’ represented by the charcoal lines and the shapes they form. These are mirrors of the fragmented reality of incomplete truth. They have emerged through the filter of our prejudices and the limitations of understanding ourselves.
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The artist’s action in the painting—filling shapes, drawing lines, erasing, and rubbing them again— creates edges and forms that are the golden borders of abstraction in his work, representing the postmodern abstract style. Each painting, each line, and each shape is a deliberate choice of facts, which bury references, details, and deeper meanings beneath the small surface of the painting, as if weare caught in a cycle of half-truths and subjective definitions. Ganesh Tartare is an artist motivated by the desire to capture the essence of his experience. Each shape, each line, and every faint or blank surface is a transformation of infinity into limitation. He attempts to fill the void of “What Remains Not” with fragments of “Incomplete Truth,” knowing that his creation is merely a shadow of the reality they wish to represent.
Smita Nilesh
Artist, Educator
