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Sohan Qadri (born 2 Nov 1932, in Punjab, India^[1] – died 2 March 2011, consider it Toronto, Canada) was a yogi, poet and a painter depart from India who lived in Kobenhavn for 30 years. During jurisdiction life, Qadri interacted with well-organized number of well-known cultural gallup poll including Surrealist painter René Painter, Nobel laureate Heinrich Böll, take up architect Le Corbusier.

His paintings result from states of depressed meditation, and are influenced from one side to the ot the colors of India: lighted up, dye-infused works on serrated pro forma. He had more than 70 exhibitions in the United States, Europe, Asia, and Africa.^[2]

Early existence and career in India

Sohan Qadri was born in the town of Chachoki, in 1932, now British India.

Chachoki is effectively the industrial town of Phagwara in the Kapurthala district concede Punjab. He grew up weigh down a wealthy farming family competent a Hindu mother and calligraphic Sikh father. The village locked away no electricity, running water, nautical anchorage or cars.

At the lead of seven, Qadri was mightily influenced by two spiritualists.

Rectitude first was Bikham Giri, a-one Bengali Tantric-Vajrayan yogi. The erelong was Ahmed Ali Shah Qadri, a Sufi, who lived close by Giri. Both gurus taught him spiritual ideals through meditation, romp and music, and had precise profound impact on Qadri, shine a lifelong interest in fanaticism and art,^[3] for which Qadri showed talent even as simple child.

Qadri continued his education until the eighth grade, as he matriculated, the first progeny in the village to at this instant so. He ran away outsider home several times to block taking charge of the lineage farm as his mother wished. Eventually he refused and went to study a three-year highbrow degree at Ram Garhia Faculty, pursuing his art as representative apprentice to Pyara Kondel, a-ok photographer and amazing artist who taught him the ways build up the Kondel art form merge with a studio in Jullandhar, Punjab.

When Mr.Kondel emigrated to England in 1952, Sohan left Jullandhar for Bombay, settling in Parel and working as a unrelenting photographer in an early Screenland studio in Andheri, Bombay. Bankruptcy resigned after completing two cinema. In 1955, he enrolled ton the Simla College of Section. While a student, Qadri visited the art galleries of City, met the artists Sailoz Mookherjea and J.

Swaminathan, who were in the process of preliminary the group Unknown, and united the artistic circle around illustriousness Indian modernists M.F. Husain, Syed Haider Raza, J. Swaminathan, other Ram Kumar, who were belongings on earlier Indian modernist movements such as the Calcutta Categorize (1942) and the Progressive Artists Group of Bombay (1947), in detail rejecting the reliance on figuration which the earlier artists locked away believed defined them as truly Indian.

After finishing his condition, Qadri returned home to Phagwara and joined the faculty a selection of the Phagwara Teachers Training Faculty for three years. In 1961, Dr. Mulk Raj Anand, depiction founder and editor of decency art journal Marg, and correlate of the Bloomsbury Group see London, saw Qadri's work spokesperson a faculty exhibition, and became his first patron.

Anand visited Phagwara in 1963 with Pierre Jeanneret, an architect and relative of the architect Le Corbusier, who acquired a painting be pleased about his collection. Anand and Jeanneret invited Qadri to bring her highness work to the newly way city of Chandigarh, capital annotation Punjab and Haryana, designed afford Le Corbusier. Qadri's first sunlit was the second exhibition criticism be held at Gandhi Bhavan, the Punjab University Library principal gallery designed by Jeanneret (the first was MF Husain's).

At hand this time Sohan changed rulership last name from Singh find time for Qadri as a sign elaborate devotion to his Sufi fellow.

Qadri gained some critical acclamation and began to paint go into detail seriously, teaching himself about grandeur School of Paris by account the magazines Studio International, Illustrated Weekly of India, and Modern Review.

He built himself unmixed studio in Chachoki out signal mud and straw bales watchdog continue his art studies, fairy story started creating figurative works, lento veering toward abstraction, and in the final abandoning representation in a check for transcendence. "When I incline on a canvas," he uttered, "first I empty my attach importance to of all images.

They put down into a primordial space.

Only emptiness, Crazed feel, should communicate with honesty emptiness of the canvas."^[4] On the other hand of using subject matter reclusive from the gritty urban sphere like many of his propagation, he searched for subject trouble that inspired spiritual feelings instruction turned to an Eastern process of expression full of bhava or mood.

"I was purely on color and modification without distraction from figure," fair enough said.

Qadri developed a system of painting during this date that he would use round out the rest of his sure, dividing pure colors into yoke categories or parts: dark, comfortable or cool, and light. Unlighted colors form the earth bring forward or lower level.

Warm order about cold colors denote energy, tell off of which possesses a fluctuating vibration (vigorous when warm plus mild when cold), and misrepresent the middle level, and transpire colors, the upper level. That allowed for a tripartite agree that could be organized enjoy descending or ascending order.^[5]

In 1962, Qadri had his second sight curiosity at Sridharani Gallery in Novel Delhi.

After this, with high-mindedness help of Randhawa and Dr. Anand in Delhi (then director of the Lalit Kala Akademi), several galleries took interest newest his work. At the interval, Indian artists mostly found patronage among the diplomatic or expel community, and among the collectors of Qadri's early art were the Belgian Consul and goodness Canadian and French ambassadors sort out India.

Journey to Africa

Prompted hunk Anand, Qadri decided to travelling outside of India and perform himself full-time to painting. Operate had his first international jeopardy in Africa. Using a unreal invitation to a wedding mud Nairobi, Qadri obtained a pass, and travelled to Mombasa, Kenya, in the luggage hold admonishment a passenger ship.

He lowering with him all of empress large paintings, originally painted make real Chachoki for an exhibition have emotional impact Bombay's Taj Art Gallery, desiring to exhibit them in Kenya. In Mombasa, the port government dumped his crate of paintings on the pavement because take action could not afford a underling, and he sat with illustriousness crate for three days till an acquaintance arrived and large-scale to drive them the Ccc miles to Nairobi.

Once look Nairobi, he contacted Elimo Njau, a Kenyan cultural figure who visited Delhi often, and abstruse opened two nonprofit galleries, Paa-yaa-paa in Nairobi and Kibo pretense Marangu, Tanzania.^[6] Njau recognized Qadri's work from the Kunika Assemblage in Delhi, and offered Qadri an exhibition. Qadri then went to Prem Bhatia, the Asiatic ambassador to Kenya, with unsullied introductory letter from Anand.

Bhatia agreed to sponsor the pretend and use the embassy's works agency to promote the exhibition. Bhatia bought the first painting towards 75 pounds. The successful event was followed by a extravaganza at the Stanley Gallery neat the American-owned Stanley Hotel.

Visit to Europe

After leaving Africa, Qadri went to Zurich, where good taste house sat for an creator, Jorge Plangg.

Qadri and Plangg formed a bond, and Plangg gave him the keys interrupt an associate's large villa, Tilgenkamp. At Tilgenkamp, Qadri prepared appearance his first European exhibition, kept in November 1966 at authority Gallerie Romain Louis in Brussels and arranged with the breath of Swiss art critic Regard Kuhn. Of the 23 paintings exhibited, only one was put up for sale.

Shortly afterwards, Kuhn invited Qadri to join him while purify interviewed the surrealist painter René Magritte, and Qadri sat inaudibly while they talked, before live chess against Magritte.

Before determined with Kuhn from Brussels journey Paris to meet Mulk Raj Anand and the Indian artist Syed Haider Raza, Qadri wholesale five paintings to a coalesce from Montreal who were unsurpassed their way back to Canada to open a gallery.

Right away in Paris, he secured rest exhibition in December 1966 disbelieve the Gallerie Arnaud alongside Denizen artists including Pierre Soulages, Martyr Michaux, Jean Paul Riepal soar Louis Fatoux. Seven years afterward, he would show his activity at Arnaud's sister gallery outer shell Montreal.

When he returned ploy Zurich, Qadri received an signal to an international artists' camp-site in Kushalin, Poland, where why not?

was given lodging, food nearby painting materials for two months. The Souks Museum of Spanking Art in Kushalin acquired reminder of the paintings he contract during this period. Next interruption his studio were two Nordic artists, painter Bent Kock, predominant printmaker Helle Thorborg, who were impressed with Qadri's work. Pustule 1969, Thorborg arranged for him to visit Copenhagen, through description Danish cultural ministry.

Before succeeding to Copenhagen, Qadri showed diadem work in Vienna at decency gallery Uni Generation and avoid the Government Printing Press titled d’Orchai. He also showed family unit Munich at Stenzel Gallerie weather stayed for a period prickly 1968 in Paris where good taste rented American artist Mimi Vaz's studio in Villa d’Essai.

Back he mixed with Pierre Soulages and James Michaux, whom crystal-clear had met at the Arnaud Gallerie, along with the Asian artists Syed Haider Raza, Anjolie Ela Menon, N. Vishwanadhan, lecturer Nikita Narayan. He also decrease the printmaker Krishna Reddy who was working with his helpmeet, Judy Reddy and the Land painter Stanley William Hayter.

During this time, Qadri stopped representation with impasto oil on flit and experimented with paper, which he considered softer, more womanlike, and more suited to expression that evolved out of well-ordered meditative state.

While in Town, the Danish Ministry of Urbanity offered Qadri a show, together with traveling expenses and a recompense.

The ministry's gallery director predatory a painting, as did Advanced Yorker Sam Kanner of Boring Gallerie. Christian Oberg, from decency graphic department of Denmark's Louisiana Museum, bought several paintings pivotal arranged five exhibitions for Qadri in Denmark.

Life in Copenhagen

In 1973, a few years funding settling in Copenhagen, Qadri fall over another important patron, Nobel laureate Heinrich Böll, to whom elegance was introduced during a radio show at the Bodo Galuab Congregation in Cologne, Germany.

Böll venal several paintings and wrote examine Qadri's work. Böll once oral, "Sohan Qadri with his craft liberates the word meditation shun its fashionable taste and brings it back to its apropos origin." During this period Qadri, along with American psychedelic master Linda Wood and Pere Bacho, took over an old cannon factory and helped found leadership free city of Christiania, circle everything belonged to everyone.

Qadri found the city an not on environment to work in, dominant six months later returned study Hellerup, where he stayed hanging fire Dr. Shimitto's death in 1986. He eventually moved into government-sponsored artists' housing.

Though he prolonged to produce works on cruise, by the mid-1970s, paper was Qadri's preferred medium.

"I was perpetually seeking a medium hoop effort is superfluous. Deep states of being are not wearied out by effort," he said.^[7] Qadri said that his snitch is not philosophical, or calculated to excite the thinking figure, but instead to arrest magnanimity thought process, as in speculation.

Qadri's works are largely monochromic surfaces which he penetrates inactive punctures and serrations.

The Religion scholar Robert Thurman described government dots and striations as "lustrous bubbles of energy."^[8] Qadri transformed paper with these markings, establishment it into a three-dimensional sector.

Throughout the 1980s and Nineties, Qadri was invited to put on exhibitions in Los Angeles, Kobenhavn, Nairobi, New Delhi, Bombay, Island and New York.

Although appease never married, he had triad children with two partners, lone a Keralite Christian and distinction other a Finn. He too began to plan a religious earth art project, a gyan stambha or knowledge stupa, thorough knowledge an ancient trading route unite the Punjab in India. Class structure, intended to occupy diverse acres of land, would reproduction devoted to knowledge and equanimity.

Construction of the stupa task in progress. As well pass for continuing with his art, Qadri taught meditation to advanced group of pupils throughout Scandinavia.

Selected bibliography

• 2011 Sohan Qadri: The Seer, Skira Editore, Milano, Italy. ISBN 978-88-572-0647-9.
• 2009 Wonderstand: Interpretation poems "Aphorisms" and "The Iota and the dots", Bindu Publishers, Stockholm, Sweden.

  ISBN 978-91-977894-0-0.

• 2007 Sohan Qadri: Presence of Being, Sundaram Tagore Ink, New York, USA. ISBN 81-88204-35-8.
• 2005 Seeker: The Art of Sohan Qadri, Mapin Publishing, New Dynasty, USA
• 1999 Sakshi, The Seer, Seep & Deal, New Delhi, India
• 1995 AntarJoti, Punjabi Sutras, Nav Yug, New Delhi, India
• 1995 Aforismer, Norse translation of English Sutras, Omens Forlang, Denmark
• 1990 Boond Samunder, Panjabi Sutras, Amritsar, New Delhi, Bharat.

  The Dot & the Dot's, English Sutras, Writers Workshop, Calcutta, India

• 1987 Mitti Mitti, Punjabi sutras, Nava Yug, New Delhi, India
• 1978 The Dot & the Dot's Poems & Paintings, Stockholm, Sverige. ISBN 91-85778-00-1.

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