Sunil Puljhun, Paramaribo, Suriname, 1978
Acry, 2014
Statement:
With my art I want to make people think about important and relevant issues in society. In the past I painted only things I thought of as beautiful, but as you grow and mature, personally and as an artist, you start to look at things differently; you start to look beyond the surface. Life is not only about pleasant and beautiful things. For many years I have thus focused on human nature and its effect on society as a whole. Subjects such as war, greed, self-centered personal gratification, man’s hunger for power, poverty and abuse were until recently the main theme in my art. Those works were mostly dark, done in charcoal, pencils and acrylic paint in primarily black and grey hues, combined with collage techniques. My subjects were either dark, indistinct silhouettes or pictures of people, often children, with strong emotional expressions.
The Weight of Darkness, 2011.
Dance, 2014.
Dance 2, 2015.
Nature 2, 2016.
Time Will Tell, 2011.
Sometimes I add words and certain symbolisms to elaborate on the theme. Important in almost every composition is a bright white mass which seems to emit an ominous threat or source of evil. It is often portrayed as radiating from the bottom of the work up towards the subject, implying in many cases a negative energy emanating from a source of evil…. and evil can come from many sources and the direction may vary. In most cases the cause of misery and evil is mankind itself and regrettably too often, the victims are the innocent, especially children. In that regard my work deals with the sadness, the fear, the abuse and the violence that often lurk beneath the surface, but are undeniably a part of many people’s lives in this day and age.(rext Readytex Art Gallery, Suriname)
See also: https://srananart.wordpress.com/tag/sunil-puljhun/