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CONDITIONAL LOVE

Painted Stories by Anurendra Jegadeva

Conditional Love, Painted Stories by Anurendra Jegadeva is the artist’s first solo exhibition since his return from Australia in 2005.

The exhibition, which gathers nearly twenty new works on canvas with paper from the past year, finds the artist still baffled about the world around him.

Addicted to news, sitcoms, reality TV and pulp fiction, the artist references the world around him in his paintings, touching on a broad range of issues as if he were surfing channels.

From Tibet to detention without trial; from Punjabi love songs to the recent general elections in March; from vampire brides to little girls with their dogs, the artist has used a mix of nostalgia and romanticism tinged with an enjoyable dose of cynicism to tell his stories.

Love is merely their back-drop… love’s conditions are much more interesting.

Conditional Love sees a departure from his predisposition to the organized picture planes within the brightly colored, luscious canvases of his previous works.

With the new works, through individual works as well as assemblages, the artist has found a complimentary aesthetic in the works on paper as well in his artist books.

In August, Anurendra Jegadeva holds his fourth solo exhibition entitled, Conditional Love-Painted Stories by Anurendra Jegadeva at Wei-Ling Gallery.

Conditional Love- Painted Stories by Anurendra Jegadeva features at Wei-Ling Gallery from 11th August - 4th September 2008.

Wei-Ling Gallery is located at No.8 Jalan Scott, Brickfields,Kuala Lumpur,50470,Malaysia . Pls call 03-22601106/07, 0123025302 or email weiling@weiling-gallery.com for more information.

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Wei-Ling Gallery is open Mon-Fri,12-7pm, Sat 10-5pm.Closed Sundays)

Read catalogue essay by Eddin Khoo

No Parking
Oil on canvas (dyptich)
342cm X 142 cm, 2007

The Red Landscape
Oil on canvas
52cm x 26cm each (5 panels), 2007

Blueprint Artist book I
Mixed media on 60 zigzag folded pages, 2006

War Brides I - IV
Mixed Media on paper
57cm x 76cm each, 2007

For the Love of God I, II, III
Mixed media on paper x 3
100cm x 67cm each, 2007

Deity
Oil on Canvas with paper assemblage
132cm X 76cm (canvas) & 100cm X 67cm (paper), 2007

Playful Priests (Study for No Parking)                                                      Good year for the Roses
Mixed media on paper                                                                            Oil on canvas
104cm x 76cm, 2007                                                                              72cm X 220cm, 2007

Blue Print Artist book II
Mixed media on 60 zigzag folded pages, 2007

The Space Between
Oil on canvas with paper assemblage
74cm x 54cm (canvas) with 76cm x 51cm (paper) and 52cm x 43cm (oval canvas), 2007

Morris and Gertrude go to Church
Watercolour and collage on paper
35cm x 109cm, 2006

5-4-3-2-1, Study for letters from home

Watercolour & collage on paper

35cm x 109cm, 2006

Letters from Home (5 Panels)

Oil & mixed media on canvas

92cm x 92cm (each), 2008

We dance alone

Oil on canvas

137cm x 230cm, 2008

The Secret of Life                                                                                   Remembering the Chithambaram
Oil and acrylic on canvas                                                                        Oil and acrylic on canvas
72cm x 120cm, 2008                                                                              72cm x 120cm, 2008