Spirit and Spectres in Suresh's colour​​

Maroncelli 12 gallery is pleased to announce the Suresh Prandi’s debut on the art scene and the power of his painting. “Spirito e spettri nel colore di Suresh / Spirit and Spectres in Suresh’s colour”, curated by art historian Bianca Tosatti, is the first ever exhibition of this young artist. The exhibition will continue at the Gliacrobati gallery in Turin, in June-July 2026.

Suresh’s works move emotions: the artist’s vision breaks the canonical scheme of perspective, in a dense carpet of pasty chromatic fields, supported by black strokes that allude to forms of human features. Suresh’s creative process is born from a meditative state during which the lines become tangled on a chromatic base stratified on many levels: in fact, as in the gymnastics that the artist systematically practices, spiritual understanding cannot be seen unless one learns the right techniques. And in this mass of matter, the eye emerges – more eyes – that attract the viewer and like magnets suck him into “lakes” of color.

“And at once I find the eye that is looking back at me extraordinarily large, fixed and enquiring – writes Bianca Tosatti in the critical text in the catalog -; a vortex sucking me inward, amplifying the tremors of my mental terrain; an outward explosion of my existence, whose forms it shakes. And so the work becomes a subject-gaze situated in the field of the Other, because it is the image that looks at the subject”.

The artist often uses oil pastels to create a chromatic mosaic that almost entirely covers the previously created drawing; he is a master in the combination of color that never fades into the next shade but it is placed next to it as if the hues and combinations were innate. And speaking of Landscape with Angel, Tosatti writes: “Colours have been carefully, yet ambitiously, juxtaposed; weighed and divided into sections like pigment cones on an Indian market stall, arranged by a savvy salesman so that the emotional value of each one can be appreciated”.