Rounak Rai, Solo exhibition

Presentation. This curatela is aimed to analyze Rounak Rai'spainting through the develop of the Tantrism concept. The main pathos of Indian Neotantrism was that modern achievements in the exact sciences, perceived as an integral part of the modernized Eurocentric civilization, had long been known to Indian Tantric mystics. For example, the fact that both sound and colour, according to the data of modern physics have the same – wave – nature, in Neotantrism, was predicted by the fact that the mantra (oral, pronounced formula, i.e. sound) and yantra (the visual equivalent of this formula) are similar. The idea that the modern view of the world was foreseen in the distant Indian antiquity, inspired those artists and thinkers who were raised on the idea of the hegemony of Western values, but sought to free themselves from its oppression, but very timidly and using forms that recalled Western abstraction or surrealism. Unlike the historical Indian exponents of Neotantrism, Rounak breaks with the logic of representing Indian culture using the symbols of Western culture. Rounak is the witness of an India that does not feel inferior to Europe and the West, that proudly defends the symbols of Tantrism as it feels them internally and not on the basis of symbols, as if it had to hide the true nature of Tantra. Consciously and provocatively he uses the universal symbols of sex, female and male, but he does it with grace and delicacy, defending the values ​​of his culture in a universal vision, where everyone can recognize themselves. He is the heir of P. T. Reddy, G. R. Santosh, Biren De, Om Prakash, S. H. Raza, Mulk Rāj Ananda and Ajit Mookerjee', and he does it with the awareness of his extraordinary creative force. A unique artist in the international panorama of emerging artists. I am honored to represent him.