K.M. ADIMOOLAM (b-1938 - 2008 ) He was born in Tamil Nadu in 1938. Adimoolam graduated from Government College of Arts and Crafts, Chennai. He has won several important awards including the National Award in 1979 and Tamil Nadu Lalitkala Academy Award in 1965 and 1978. Apart from several solo shows, he has participated in many international exhibitions like the 9th Sao Paulo International Biennale, Brazil, 6th Indian International Triennale, New Delhi, Group Shows of Indian Artists in Tokyo, Three Indian artists at Maya Gallery, Hong Kong, Nine Indian artists in Singapore, Rimbaud - 91 by Alliance Francaise in Madras and France and many other shows. Adimoolam's works are in many important individual and institutional collections in India and abroad. He has executed several murals for reputed institutions in Delhi, Madras and Bangalore. He served as the Indian Commissioner for the IIIrd Ankara Biennale in Turkey, as Jury for the Bombay Art Society show and twice as the jury for the national exhibition. He has traveled in Britain, France and Turkey. He has also published a book of drawings "Between the Lines". He lives and works in Chennai. He died 15 January 2008. STATEMEN One finds oneself rather comfortable in front of Adimoolam's canvases, within the wider familiarity of form, which has been employed in a sensitive, free-flowing way, with calm absorption. They evoke not very specific yet pervasive feelings, something that touches on what we accumulate from recurring moments of openness to nature. The ease, immediacy and intimacy of contact in a focused, relaxed quietude, and with lasting impact, comes through ? aesthetically as well as emotion ? wise - thanks to the paintings remaining embedded in the heritage of modern art, in the finer notes of living experience, and on the plane of a cultured individual perception... ExC Art Heritage, 2000