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Into the Gathering Night
Gopi Gajwani: Recent Works

We may compare Gopi Gajwani’s tonalities to a scale of microtones, and yet we are also brought up short by the intensely sensuous materiality of his works when considered as pictorial surfaces. The process by which he creates his paintings involves an artisanal attentiveness to a layering of densities; he listens to the voice of each colour, whether cerulean or cobalt, vermilion or magenta, cerise or violet, viridian or ochre. As our eyes follow the shapes that float across Gopi’s surfaces, or come to anchor around focal points on his …