Signed lower right “Ravi Mandlik, 1999”; inscribed upper left verso “Ravi Mandlik – Composition No. 6, 1999”.
Sizes:
Frame: 136 × 105.5 cm | 53.5 × 41.5 in
Artwork: 120 × 89.5 cm | 47.2 × 35.2 in
Ravi Mandlik’s Composition n°06 (1999) is full of energy — a mix of gesture, colour and spiritual vibrations. The composition unfolds in earthy ochres, deep reds and luminous yellows, textured surfaces and spontaneous marks that suggest chaos and control. Mandlik’s brushwork has a meditative quality, turning abstraction into a language of contemplation and movement.
Executed on canvas in mixed media, this work is a synthesis of Indian spiritual thought and global abstract expressionism. The layered pigment and gestural impasto gives a sense of rhythm that is like natural cycles — creation, destruction, renewal. The surface is almost topographical, as if light is passing through layers of memory and time.
Composition n°06 is Mandlik’s belief in the emotive power of abstraction as a form of transcendence. The painting is a dialogue between material and metaphysical, intuition and structure — a hallmark of his mature work that places him among India’s top contemporary abstractionists.
Néo Enchères, Paris, France, Thursday, June 12 2025, Lot 23.
Good vintage condition with some signs of wear. Framed.
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Ravi Mandlik is a contemporary Indian abstract painter who explores the space where energy, emotion and spirituality meet through colour and movement. A graduate of Sir J. J. School of Art in Mumbai, Mandlik is part of a generation of Indian artists who sought to create a modern visual language while staying rooted in philosophical and natural symbolism. His paintings with spontaneous brushwork and layered textures evoke elemental forces – wind, water and light – as metaphors for inner states.
Drawing from Indian spirituality and Western abstraction, Mandlik’s paintings are about balance and transformation. The rhythm of his compositions is both turbulent and still, chaotic and controlled – a dialogue between the physical and the metaphysical. Over the years his work has been exhibited widely in India and internationally and he is one of the leading voices of contemporary Indian abstraction.
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