Artist Yogesh Rawal dies of Covid-19

In the Seventies and 80s, when most Indian artists had been experimenting with standard genres, a younger artist in Mumbai, Yogesh Rawal, was discovering his path in additional non secular and minimalistic compositions.
His meditative leanings had been rooted within the self and acknowledged the world over within the years to come back. On Friday, Rawal breathed his final in Gurugram’s Medanta Hospital, succumbing to Covid.
“He clearly led his generation with his sense of minimalism. He had a great sense of depth and light which is difficult to find in many artists of the time. People looked up to him, respected him. He was not part of the race,” mentioned shut pal Rajeev Sethi, founder-trustee and chairman of Asian Heritage Foundation.

Born in 1954 in Wankaner, Saurashtra, Rawal got here to Mumbai throughout his adolescence and pursued his early training within the metropolis. After doing odd jobs, he joined the Sir JJ School of Art, from the place he graduated in 1978.
A French authorities scholarship took him to Paris, the place he studied lithography at L’Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-arts. He additionally learnt etching on the famend printmaking studio Atelier 17, underneath Stanley William Hayter, earlier than returning to Mumbai.