Colourless Gods, 2007, oil on canvas, 275 x 168 cm / 108 x 66 in
In his debut solo exhibition at Mumbai's Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, "Moving Earth," the young, Kerala-born Ratheesh T gave viewers the sensation of having fallen into a fantastically lucid dream. But the artist's otherworldly images belie the pointed message they … convey, as the seven canvases in this suite offer a poetic stocktaking of some of the most essential conflicts and destructive conditions facing India today.