{"title":"Abhishek Sharma","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"149\" data-end=\"536\"\u003eAbhishek is an Indian artist based in Berlin, working primarily in oil painting. His practice explores solitude, introspection, and emotional duality through layered compositions and imagined landscapes. Rooted in personal experience, his work reflects a lifelong sense of being an outsider and a persistent search for belonging, finding moments of solace in nature and inner reflection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"538\" data-end=\"1130\"\u003eLoneliness, for Abhishek, is not only a state of loss but a transformative human condition—one that invites awareness, reflection, and change. Influenced by artists such as Vincent van Gogh, Matthew Wong, Yayoi Kusama, Kandinsky, and Mondrian, his paintings often center on a solitary figure within abstracted landscapes, where color and form replace literal space. 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Influenced by Matthew Wong, Van Gogh, and Kandinsky, his paintings reimagine loneliness as a space for reflection, transformation, and new emotional possibilities\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cb id=\"docs-internal-guid-73933d49-7fff-ab19-bc57-52e3cb09f5d6\"\u003eThe burning fire of passion and dreams Dreaming, to me, is a profoundly solitary act and so is being passionate. It begins in silence—with a turning inward, a soft severing from the world around. Dreams ask us to sit with our desires, to trace the path from where we’ve been to where we long to go. 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Influenced by Matthew Wong, Van Gogh, and Kandinsky, his paintings reimagine loneliness as a space for reflection, transformation, and new emotional possibilities\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cb id=\"docs-internal-guid-73933d49-7fff-ab19-bc57-52e3cb09f5d6\"\u003eBeing alone rarely arrives gently. It begins as a restlessness, a subtle ache. But in time, it softens, settles, becomes a kind of second skin. I do not resist it. Solitude shields me—from noise, from needless currents, from the energies that pull without offering anything in return. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cb id=\"docs-internal-guid-73933d49-7fff-ab19-bc57-52e3cb09f5d6\"\u003eYet in today’s world, true solitude is elusive. We are surrounded by shadows of others—our devices, our feeds, our curated distractions. They offer the illusion of aloneness while keeping us tethered. We may appear solitary, but inwardly remain crowded. In such a world, the act of being alone—truly alone—becomes an act of reclamation. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cb id=\"docs-internal-guid-73933d49-7fff-ab19-bc57-52e3cb09f5d6\"\u003eIt is only in nature that this solitude becomes whole. There, one can hear the self again—uninterrupted, unfiltered. A quiet dialogue begins, not with words, but with awareness. In the painting, the figure sits on the edge of the chair—not relaxed, but alert. Listening. Turning inward. 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Influenced by Matthew Wong, Van Gogh, and Kandinsky, his paintings reimagine loneliness as a space for reflection, transformation, and new emotional possibilities\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cb id=\"docs-internal-guid-73933d49-7fff-ab19-bc57-52e3cb09f5d6\"\u003e“That shiny object” is a metaphor for the deepest, often unspoken desires that pull us forward. In the painting, the abstract figure swims toward what appears to be the reflection of a full moon—yet the moon itself is absent from the sky. This visual contradiction unsettles the viewer, prompting an inquiry: What do we chase when we chase desire? 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