Jasu Rawal’s unusual minimalist compositions resemble floating surrealist worlds, littered with dots, lines, textures, and scripts. These paintings are rooted in his recognition of the painted form as beyond the constraints of reality and gravity. ... Born in Halvad, Gujarat, he grew up drawn to colour and shapes as he watched his mother paint. The artist is a staunch proponent of Paul Klee’s philosophy that “art does not reproduce what is visible, instead it makes it visible.” For Rawal, it was the boldness seen in abstracts and the usage of colour as a language of expression that appealed to him. Contemplative and lyrical, his paintings explore a varied colour spectrum of intense orange-red, yellows, blues, blue-violets, greens, browns and grey. In his work, random selections of shapes and forms, including objects like boats and wine bottles, appear in a decluttered spatial arrangement, while a distinctive colour in varying tones creates a unifying harmony. He prefers to leave his paintings untitled, leaving it up to the viewer to experience its mood—the dream—as it were.

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