sanjay nanda

Sanjay Nanda is a graphic designer by profession and passionate about photography. Photography helps him release his intense creative urges and to communicate what he feels and sees. His experience as a visual designer helps him see beauty in mundane things. In his images he likes to use the interplay of light, textures, and colours to create unusual and complex forms that seduce the viewer. He have the ability to extract beauty out of ordinary surroundings and convert them into visually appealing images and at the same time using concepts and techniques that are grounded in the domain of fine art. His select works are part of various private collections.

Collection - Yantra Mantra: Lost in Time and Space

Sanjay has been drawn to Jantar Mantar, where he has found colours and forms that he has not seen anywhere else. In this body of work, he has focused on two-dimensional surfaces and the abstract images that are formed through time, weather and/or human interaction with building materials. These images document the history of ordinary (or perhaps not so ordinary) moments and the end result is incidental beauty. His work is really a collaboration with forces and elements that have preceded him; it is about a connection between the physical world and the non-material world in an attempt to make visible what others may not has seen.

Sanjay has always been fascinated by the geometric architectural structures within the Jantar Mantar astronomical observatory; instruments that were used for keeping track of celestial bodies in time and space. Jantar Mantar – which is actually pronounced, as ‘Yantra Mantra’, Yantra for instrument and Mantra for formula – is not only a timekeeper of celestial bodies, it also tells a lot about the technological achievements under the Rajput kings and their attempt to resolve the mysteries regarding astronomy. These seemingly abstract structures create fascinating graphical forms which change throughout the day with the movement of the sun across the horizon.

From the moment the first rays of the sun strike its precisely calibrated surfaces and bathe it in soft glowing light to create a dream-like appearance; to the midday sun creating strong patterns and bringing our the fascinating textures with the interplay of light and shadow; and finally, to the golden glow of the setting sun, setting the earthy colour of the structures on fire in all the varied hues from deep yellow to orange to ochre to red… These images are a result of numerous undulating days spread through many seasons spent in the presence of these forgotten wonders. The Jantar Mantar used to be a part of India’s rich scientific heritage. Used to be… but today, it has fallen into disuse, and is lost, in time and space.

[Procuction and Edition Details]

Original prints of an Artwork will be made subject to the details as listed below: The Artwork is available in various media types. And each media type has a limited number of editions. The Artist reserves the right to offer the Artwork in various different sizes (other than the ones mentioned herein), but however the number of editions will remain fixed in each media type as per the details below:

[1] Available as print only (without matting and framing) signed limited edition of eight (8) archival prints printed on paper with archival pigment inks in Print Size (Media Size) of 40 cm x 60 cm (55 cm x 75 cm); 60 cm x 90 cm (75 cm x 105 cm); 80 cm x 120 cm (95 cm x 135 cm).

[2] Available as print only (without matting and framing) signed limited edition of four (4) archival prints printed on canvas with archival pigment inks in Print Size (Media Size) of 100 cm x 150 cm (110 cm x 150 cm); 140 cm x 210 cm (150 cm x 220 cm).

[3] Available as framed print (with matting and framing) unsigned limited edition of one hundred (100) photo prints in maximum Print Size (Media Size) of 30 cm x 45 cm (30.5 cm x 45.5 cm).

[4] Plus one Artist Print will be printed in each media type mentioned above.

Similar edition is applicable for square prints. Sizes are as per the smaller side. Similar edition is applicable for panoramic prints. Sizes are as per the longer side.

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