In his conceptual approach to art making, there is an inherent duality. That is life is not one dimensional but multidimensional, and that every experience has its contrasting play of emotions and sentiments as joy and sadness, confidence and insecurity, optimism and pessimism, light and dark, which as abstractions felt and experienced morph to material existence in his works as he manipulates colours, tones, shades, light and dark. This approach also creates a hint of an autobiographical rendering, but for the artists it is mostly a therapeutic act to make sense of life on earth. Yuvan aims to touch people’s lives and their souls and hopefully help the viewer to confront, to re-examine their place in the world.

METHODOLOGY

Depending on the concept, Yuvan decides his method of engaging with paper, cardboards, coloured papers, used magazines with plywood as support, he layers it with a pasted cardboard sheet. On top of this he glues a series of vertical strips that has been created by laminating three sheets of 100 GSM boards and cut as strips placed equidistant with utmost precision. Once the vertical strips are in place, the next stage involves pasting a film or political poster on it, which is dictated by the demands of his concept, so that the poster is ripped to different shapes and pasted on the vertical strip surface.

After this, at random Yuvan removes the poster again preparing the surface for another poster to be pasted. This process of removing and pasting continues until the desired effect is obtained, with sometimes as many as fifteen layers. Another method is preparing each vertical strip [three laminated sheets of 100 GSM board with the desired colours, that is sticking different colour strips of paper on either side of it, placing it equidistant from each other with the space between filled with another multi coloured strip, which according to certain calculation and visual effects he fills up the entire surface of the plywood.