Where math meets Gond art
While his father, Grandmaster
Viswanathan Anand
, may see his chessboard as 64 squares, for his son, Sai Akhil Anand, the board holds infinite patterns. 'On a chessboard, I don't just see pieces. The knight moves like it's in a maze, the bishop traces an aperiodic diagonal.
It's all patterns,' says the 14-year-old.
Akhil says he finds math patterns everywhere, like the Fibonacci sequence or golden spirals, 'even in a plate of gulab jamuns or murukkus'.
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He has already developed a distinct artistic style of his own, blending such patterns in Indian art forms characterised by bold lines and vivid colours, and an underlying message of environmental conservation.
Initially, Akhil's interest in art seemed like a form of expression with amusing sketches of animals or the apple falling on Issac Newton's head, says Viswanath Anand.
'But over time, he started taking it up seriously and seemed to enjoy himself a lot. More importantly, he found happiness in it. He would work on something until he got it right, and that reminded me of my own past with chess tournaments.'
During the pandemic, says Akhil's mother Aruna, they noticed he loved sketching, especially animals. 'On realising that patterns in nature are always perfect, he started to use them to create ideas based on mythology,' she says.
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Once they took him to a village in West Bengal called Pingla — the origin of several art forms including Pathachitra — where he worked with local artists and natural colours, she says. 'That left a deep impression on him. His works have been inspired by madhubani, gond, worli, kalighat and pichwai styles.'
Akhil has produced a good body of work, many of which are in the gond style with a contemporary touch, says V Umashankar, an artist at Cholamandal Artists' Village.
'His treatment of the subject and handling of the medium is quite impressive.'
Akhil's debut solo art exhibition titled 'Morphogenesis' will be held at Art Space by KalpaDruma from Aug 1. Morphogenesis alludes to mathematician Alan Turing's theory, says Akhil, of a mathematical model for patterns in nature, like a zebra's stripes.
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