New Delhi, March 29: The veteran artist Vivan Sundarm passed away at the age of 79 on Wednesday.
The artist was ill and had been visiting hospitals for the past few days due to a number of health issues that had arisen in recent months.
“The last three months he was going in and out of the hospital,” said the actress Shabanam Hashmi, who is a good friend of Vivian Sundaram.
On Wednesday morning, around 9:20, the pioneering artist took his last breath and passed away at the age of 79. The rites of his last ceremony will take place in a few days.
Vivan Sundaram passed away this morning at 9:20 a.m. Further details of the cremation as decided will be communicated to you shortly,” revealed the information from the Safdar Hashmi Memorial Trust, where the artist Sundaram was a founding trustee.
Sundaram was a pioneer and multidisciplinary artist who has worked in many different media, like painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, installation, and video art. His art work, like Re-takes of Amrita, Art Cargo under Black Cloud, and Black Gold, was a famous painting of his, and not only the painting but his other art forms were also as famous as this.
On the death of such a veteran artist, all his fans, admirers, friends, and family expressed grief and deep sorrow.
Vivian Sundaram was born in 1943, the son of former Law Commission of India Chairman Kali Sundaram. He was very fond of the arts, and with that, he studied at MS University in Baroda and then at the Slade School of Fine Art in London in the 1960s.