With a quirky style, Jayesh Sachdev is one of the most innovative of the few pop artists in India
At the age of 21, in the hopes of honing in on his artistic interests, Pune based Jayesh Sachdev set out to Singapore to pursue a course in visual communications. Having graduated with an advertising major, he returned home and has been dabbling in various fields to satiate his creative drives ever since then.
Now 28, Jayesh continues to be inspired by all things highly graphic in nature. He says, “I grew up admiring artists like Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein who are some of the best pop artists of our times. Although pop art is quite Western, I am quite ‘old school’ in essence or in style, retaining as much of an Indian influence in my work as possible.” The only commercial artist in his family, Jayeshs’ local inspirations also include Raja Ravi Varma. “As an artist, he was way ahead of his time. He did exactly as he wanted to, irrespective of what people thought of him.”
Recently, at a Fiat event in Mumbai, Jayesh took pop art to a whole new level. Creating a platform of canvas measuring 40×40 feet, and using a car as a paintbrush, the young artist sped over a stage creating a wild, almost chaotic image as the car tires smudged and dragged paint around with their movement. “The idea,” says Sachdev, “was to do something classic yet contemporary, but most importantly, something larger than life.” Although the fate of ‘Drive Art’, or ‘Tire Art’, is still undecided, what remains undoubted is the fact that Jayesh has created a whole new dimension to art. Sachdev says of what is most likely India’s biggest art work on canvas, “The painting might be restored at Fiat head offices in Italy or it may be auctioned off…for charity of course. If so, the panels may be sold separately and each individual panel of roughly 6×4 feet should fetch anything between 5 to 10 lakh rupees.”
Sachdev’s current projects also include a commissioned series of works collectively titled, ‘the Bollywood wall of fame,’ which pays tribute to the stars of the silent film era. l_shanaya@dnaindia.net

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Police have been looking for witnesses in the neighborhood, stated Carina. The stolen pieces have a value of around $500,000.

About Lasse Åberg Lasse was born in Hofors on the 5th of May, 1940. That year the family moved to Stockholm, Kungsholmen, where Lasse grew up. He loved to draw and by the age of ten, he had already decided to be an artist. After secondary school, he first worked at Expressen’s Printer Department and later for Seelig’s book warehouse. He did his military service at LV3 (antiaircraft defence) at Norrtälje. After that, he applied for studies at the University College of Arts, Crafts and Design and started there in 1960 at the institution for Graphic Design and Illustration. He completed his studies in 1964.

During his summer holidays in 1962 and 1963, Lasse worked as a musician at jazz ballet performances. There he met Ardy Strüver, a Dutch artist. They started to make television programmes and were active during the 70’s. At the same time, Lasse was illustrating children’s books (with Lill Lindfors for example) and did illustrations for publishing houses and advertising companies.

Between 1976 – 1977 Lasse and Klasse Möllberg produced the “Trazan Apansson” series. By mistake, the videotapes were demagnetised. From 1980 to 1981, they made a new Christmas edition of “Trazan Apansson”, which was replayed on mornings during the summer holidays. Lasse made the film “The call up” in 1978.

At the beginning of the 1970’s, Lasse started collecting Disney artefacts because it was fun and sufficiently silly. He became very fond of pop art when it appeared in the beginning of the 1960’s and Lasse decided that if he would have an artistic activity in the future, it would be in the direction of pop art. He has held exhibitions at different galleries and museums since the 1970’s. To date, Lasse has created 276 lithographs.

In 1980, Lasse produced the film “The package tour”, which has been seen by 2.4 million people. He has made six feature films: ”The call up”, “The package tour”, “Snowroller”, “SOS”, “The involuntary Golfer” and “The health Trip”.

Lasse enjoys music and plays the guitar, the guitar-banjo and the conga drums. He has played with the orchestras: “Electric Banana Band”, “Stig-Helmers Experience” and “Jazzakuten”.

Lasse has produced many works for television, for example “Trazan Apansson”, “How do you behave, man?”, “Zwampen” and “Disneytajm”. “Trazan Apansson” was re-broadcast in the summer of 2007.

In 2002 the Åberg family opened the “Åberg’s Museum” where you can find Lasse’s Disney collection, which is one of the best in the world. There are also originals by cartoonists and art associated with cartoons.

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