BIO

Kiran Varikilla, Born in 1983 in Karimnagar district, Telangana state completed his masters from Hyderabad Central University in 2008 and worked as a lecturer in Painting Department for 4 years at Sri Venkateshwara college of fine Arts Hyderabad. He exhibited his works in major galleries of india and abroad, like Jehangir Art gallery Mumbai in, Nehru art centre, Gallery Space, Shrishti Art Gallery, Novotel Hotel, Hyderabad etc., lives and works in Hyderabad.

The somber earthy hues and the schematic representation of codified imagery of Kiran Varikilla accentuate his dominant inner-self. By and large a flawlessly rendered canvas echoes the artist’s opaque sensuality where the surreptitious metaphors collide with transparent visual space. Flame is the main object in his work representing enlightenment foremost male desire or simply a dominant thought, the pictorial back drop conceals and reveals the essence if the artistic expression.

The canvas is treated with thin layers of bright hues creating a hard but soothing visual surface upon which binaries are juxtaposed. For Kiran, the metaphors that were abstracted through a device of special segregation reflect the nature, the self and the truth. but it is also conceived as a dominate force, of sorts, for the artist. His earlier works were predominated by eroticism and sensuality, a conflict between mind and bodily emotions which are altered into visuals. But the recent works become more non-representational and evoke a sense of metaphysical experience. On the whole, the visuals can be seen as true expressions of the artist, who is not only engaged in picture making but also furtively traverses across the ecstatic erotic visual realms.