Playing card (shot by Wendy Fletcher) and found packaging, 6 x 6 in.
Kunel Gaur's practice is deeply complex. Initially, his creations may appear as simple deconstructions of everyday product packaging. However, further exploration uncovers an intelligent blend of miniature collages that incorporate elements of typography, portraiture, and fragments of packaging. These intricate arrangements ingeniously tell stories through the combination of seemingly unrelated elements, seamlessly knitting together a unified, cohesive composition.
Found packaging and brochure, 6 x 6 in.
Architecture and functional design have a huge influence on my work. I use collage as a means to construct forms that are a reminder of the visual culture that surrounds us and follows us home.
Kunel Gaur
Found packaging, catalog, and shopping tags, 6 x 6 in.
My personal visual style is inspired by functional design and brutalist architecture and design movement that emerged in the 1950s and has come to evolve as a response to the overwhelming use of embellishment on visual communication both online and offline. My creative process feeds on channeled thoughts or ideas and found sensibilities. Looking at reconstruction and appropriation as means to create a sensory overlap and extract new meaning, I create a variety of assemblages from the material around me. I build using architectural materials like wood, concrete, resin, metal, acrylic paint, screen printing techniques, glass and electricals amongst others. I often mix my work with the written word, flirting with what could be called prose, poetry or at once both.
Kunel Gaur
Found shopping tags, packaging, and user manual, 6 x 6 in.
Found brochure, packaging, shopping tags, and blank cheque, 6 x 6 in.
Kunel Gaur was born in 1980 in New Delhi, India. He is currently based in Toronto, Canada.
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