ADIMOOLAM K.M
Adimoolam was born in Tamil Nadu in 1938. He graduated from the Govt. College of Arts and Craft, Chennai. The winner of many awards, notably the National Award in 1979, he has a number of individual and group shows to his credit. He has participated in the 19th Sao Paulo International Biennale, Rimbaud ‘91’ in France, and shown in Tokyo, Hong Kong and Singapore. Adimoolam served as the Indian Commissioner for the III Ankara Biennale in Turkey and as Jury for the National Exhibition. He has published a book of Drawings “Between the Lines” and has been instrumental in popularizing art on covers of books published in Tamil. Adimoolam’s abstracts are dramatic and at the same time subtle. The broad swishes of the palette knife reveal shapes of varying depths that move towards each other and mirror nature in all its glory. His drawings are, in his own words “impressions of beauty which seem to constantly get imprinted on my inner vision and emerge as black and white forms on paper”. His drawings and his paintings are often to be found in all major Contemporary Indian Art auctions. The line without colour is very strong. A range of colour is embedded within the line. Street theatre performances are vivid memories in Adimoolam’s mind and he converted these into memorable drawings evoking nostalgic village storytelling performances. Adimoolam’s intricate web of lines coupled with his consummate techniques of wash swiftly captured the essence of his subject. It is with admiration that the viewer reacts to Adimoolam’s drawings… his wizardry with pen and ink. Adimoolam has always held that his canvases are neither representative of nature nor are they a figment of his imagination. The canvas is a play of colours where the next stroke is dictated by the one that precedes it. Adimoolam’s canvases are totally different from his drawings. Though they derive their inspiration from nature, they are completely non- representative of nature. The colour merge and overlap with each application and the seeming chaos comes good together in the end. Adimoolam's high energy canvas is a play of colours where the next stroke is dictated by the one that precedes it. He achieves a balance of form and shape that is unsurpassed among abstractionists. He lived and worked in Chennai till he passed away in 2008.