A Dictionary Of Sanjay's Modern Painting

February 8 - March 9, 2019

Modern Painting (Rorschach) #1 - #4, Modern Painting #10

Sanjay Theodore's new exhibition as its title suggests, offers a compendium, a personal take on the different tropes that constitute modern painting. So with typical wit and deftness of touch, we have Sanjay's re-presentation of abstraction, figuration and the found - right down to Rorschach bookcover works offering false science and the ability to make of this what you can, as the basis for it all.

Sanjay's promise is considerable, but very considered too. The faux naïve gravitas of the installation is serious fun, whilst the depths of field explored between dots and grids in the paintings are equally playful. In these Modern Paintings, form is variously brushed, scrawled, scored and gilded, with marks metallic and not, varying in density and shimmering against dark atmospheric grounds. The effect is glorious - a little bit of Persia and western modernism meeting in the miniature.
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Front gallery - installation views and additional works

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Back gallery - installation views

Details of works

Front Gallery
Modern Painting #1       mixed media on board       200 x 200mm       $1750
Modern Painting #2       mixed media on board       300 x 300mm       $2100
Modern Painting #3       mixed media on board       200 x 200mm       $1750
Modern Painting #4       mixed media on board       200 x 200mm       $1750
Modern Painting #5       mixed media on board       300 x 300mm       $2100
Modern Painting #6       mixed media on board       200 x 200mm       $1750
Modern Painting #7       mixed media on board       200 x 200mm       $1750
Modern Painting #8       mixed media on board       200 x 200mm       $1750
Modern Painting #9       mixed media on board       610 x 460mm       $2700

Modern Painting (Rorschach) #1   mixed media on book cover 235 x 325mm   $1221
Modern Painting (Rorschach) #2   mixed media on book cover 145 x 290mm   $1221
Modern Painting (Rorschach) #3   mixed media on book cover 145 x 290mm   $1221
Modern Painting (Rorschach) #4   mixed media on book cover 145 x 290mm   $1221
Modern Painting #10     mixed media on book cover 190 x 270mm    $1221

Modern Painting #11     mixed media on board     375 x 280mm fr     $2500
Modern Painting #12     mixed media on board     375 x 280mm fr     $2500
Modern Painting           mixed media on board     915 x 1220mm       $7800

Back Gallery
Modern Painting (Installed Elements)     POA

All works are from 2018/19
Prices include GST