Baiju Parthan

Baiju Parthan 
Acrylic & Oil on Canvas 
72/144inch 
2006 
Baiju Parthan a painter, is known as a pioneer of intermedia art in India. While elaborating the workings of a mysterious inner universe through his paintings, Parthan has combined his painterly concerns with his explorations of cyberspace to produce a series of provocative, richly textured installations. 
Often described by his biographer, Ranjit Hoskote, as a ‘techno-shaman’, Baiju Parthan’s cryptic images emerge from the interdigitation of his various dabblings in the fields of engineering, botany, philosophy, mythology, technology, religion and, eventually, the internet. Unsurprisingly, the artist’s rebus-like works, frequently constructed out of two or more panels, reflect the multiple layers, both complementary and conflicting, that frame contemporary existence.