SUNIL GAWDE-minimal approach, maximal impact

Josie: hello fellow artists to be and any others reading this....I just got home from Sydney!! It was alot of fun...I went to the Museum of Contemporary Arts...it was so big and exciting, for those that have never been, its right at Circular Quay...great location...I really do recommend a big class excursion with you all...it would be great fun!!..No...seriously.!! so anyway, I'll stop rambling and get on with the journal article...
I was reading Sculpture (April 2006, vol. 25, no. 3, page 37) and came across the article on Sunil Gawde. I looked at the abstract images and flicked forward to the next article because this one I found was very unappealing...honestly I didnt read it much, I just looked at the pictures and knew I didnt like it. So I went back and read about the artist Sunil Gawde, although a lot of this article was giving his childhood, history, when he left home and why......and I was thinking it was all a little boring and irrelevant to what I wanted to know about his work....so after reading through a few paragraphs of this, it got on to his abstraction and minimal approach to his work as an artist. His work is very gestural, and the elements he incorporates; colour, geometry etc are obviously very deliberate and reflective of his mindstate. Here is an image of one of his works Untitled, 2005. I know so many forms of art are promoted these days, and that obviously people out there like his work,it just seems really dull to me. I just do not really understand how this brown thing that can be adjusted to look like a caterpillar of sorts can be so incredibly appealing???!! Maybe there is a major concept I'm missing here...I don't know!!!!!!! Next week i'll find an artist that I actually like, then I won't bag him/her so much..
have a great week all!!!!
over and out....

Image from: (http://www.sculpture.org/documents/scmag06/april_06/gawde/gawde.shtml)