G R Iranna is an artist whose work transcends the boundaries of time and space. Born in 1970, it has been barely ten years since he started painting. Many of Iranna`s paintings depict pain as an abstract force that is translated visually in bruised textures and razor sharp cutting edges. His painting has always been far removed from an overriding, postmodern logic. Instead, Iranna uses the idealistic, representative and modernist language of Indian contemporary art.

His most recent works are all visions of resistance. He intends to convey a sense of massive dynamic energy that pervades the surfaces, an energy that is fueled by torment and the struggle against it. Upon further inspection, one may see that these conflicts being pl...