Avinash Mokashe

Portrait as a genre offer a field in which the face or countenance can be interpreted to suit the artist's concept in his representation as an archetype of the mask; the simulacrum of presence that is the ubiquity of the generic portrait head; keeping alive the memory, or the dimension of the sacred and magic. It is in the realm of the sacred that Avinash's portraits can be bracketed. His portraiture translates as his subliminal expression. His inventiveness and creativity is in the fulfillment of this form of mental activity that he realizes as higher reaches of his spirituality. Therefore...