Iram Art presents Sacred Cipher a solo of Rakesh Patel, Every age has searched for a cipher to unlock the sacred and divine. From the mandalas of Asia to the cathedrals of Europe, from alchemical diagrams to the blueprints of modern industry, artists and builders have turned to geometry as a code that binds material and spiritual worlds. In the recent works of Rakesh Patel, this quest re-emerges with striking force. His reliefs, diagrams, and sculptures are not mere abstractions but sacred ciphers that are coded structures where shapes and colours conceal both memory and transcendence.Patel’s practice spans the intimate and the monumental, moving across paper, wood, and steel. On paper, he distills yantra-like geometries into stark diagrams: black and gray compositions punctuated with flashes of red, yellow, or blue. These are intimate code, blueprints that hover between sacred diagrams and modernist design. In his wooden reliefs and painted sculptures, geometry acquires depth, rhythm, and tactility. Carpentry fragments, rods, and spindles interlock into mandala-like structures; surfaces are distressed and weathered, carrying the aura of ancient relics. And in steel, Patel’s language rises to the monumental: rusting planes and intersecting arcs that command outdoor space, at once a shrine, a ruin, and a machine.
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