Laxma Goud

Laxma Goud plays the Sutradhar or the traditional storyteller. He sits on the floor of his studio and, with his pencil and brush, weaves a story of man, woman, goat, half-goat, half-man or half-woman. These are his protagonists in a world of uninhibited fantasy and eroticism. According to the artist ‘there is eroticism in nature itself’. He strikes a flawless balance. Humour, earthiness and vitality emerge as Laxma transforms the characters - man into goat, goat into woman, peering lustfully at each other. Apart from Laxma’s great narrative ability, his remarkable skill and sophistication in handling his medium - pencil or brush - set him apart. With finely chiselled lines, Laxma builds up a world where the ‘crude is rendered touching, the wildly erotic natural and each one of his figures bent with age, swollen with lust, reaching out or embracing is wholly human’.

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