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'BLACK GOLD' Is an integral passion and love of music celebrated in its truest form. The title of this body of work refers to the slang term used to describe a vinyl record.
Mimicking the time honoured process of a DJ, the blending and mixing two records together on turntables to create a single sound, two painted representations of individual records are fused together into these dynamic composite artworks. The finger gestures of vinyl hip hop scratching and back cueing are all translated by Pawar with brush strokes and sprays.
The series includes ten artworks, two vinyl reliefs spray painted and brushed on paper, composited together in digital post production, enlarged in dimension and printed on substrate where they are hand customised with spray, making each work unique.
Each piece is named after a pivotal record from Pawar‘s DJ record collection over the years.* The records are played in the studio on a loop as the paintings are created, it is the artist‘s belief that the energy and spirits of sound seep into these visual manifestations, bringing everything full circle.
It starts with the bassline, and ends with the bassline.