Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day
Surendran Nair
Title:NETI, NETI: THE DOCTRINE OF THE FOREST (Cuckoonebulopolis),
Year: 2009
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 71 x 47 inches
The artist, well known internationally, uses a mixture of traditional and contemporary imagery, including cinema posters and political graffiti, in his work. His paintings can be, in turn, mischievous, ironic and quizzical as they inject a gentle surrealism into prevailing notions of reality. As if recycling traditions from a cultural encyclopaedia, he meticulously constructs a web of images - mythic, modern, classical and mundane - growing out of the body of cosmic man.
In his body of his work titled 'Corollary mythologies', Nair weaves together visual strands from both Indian and Western art and mythology to create new and idiosyncratic icons. By intentionally leaving the works open to interpretation from multiple viewpoints, he nurtures a dialogue on crucial issues for the future in India concerning the community and the individual.
According to the artist, this particular series is about belonging and dissent. He notes: "I imagine it to have political undertones, however subtle, which is informed of History, mythology, real and imaginary events. Art history, notions of tradition and identity and its relationship with modernity, of language, sexuality, politics, religious and other faiths etc. Without emphasizing any of these in particular, I address these issues simultaneously. Sometimes rendered sentimentally, literally, cryptically or otherwise metaphorically oblique, they are both detached and reflective and at times often with a mischievous gaze, making innocent jokes, and at other times being ironical and quizzical too."
courtesy:saffronart
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Surendran Nair
Title:NETI, NETI: THE DOCTRINE OF THE FOREST (Cuckoonebulopolis),
Year: 2009
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 71 x 47 inches
The artist, well known internationally, uses a mixture of traditional and contemporary imagery, including cinema posters and political graffiti, in his work. His paintings can be, in turn, mischievous, ironic and quizzical as they inject a gentle surrealism into prevailing notions of reality. As if recycling traditions from a cultural encyclopaedia, he meticulously constructs a web of images - mythic, modern, classical and mundane - growing out of the body of cosmic man.
In his body of his work titled 'Corollary mythologies', Nair weaves together visual strands from both Indian and Western art and mythology to create new and idiosyncratic icons. By intentionally leaving the works open to interpretation from multiple viewpoints, he nurtures a dialogue on crucial issues for the future in India concerning the community and the individual.
According to the artist, this particular series is about belonging and dissent. He notes: "I imagine it to have political undertones, however subtle, which is informed of History, mythology, real and imaginary events. Art history, notions of tradition and identity and its relationship with modernity, of language, sexuality, politics, religious and other faiths etc. Without emphasizing any of these in particular, I address these issues simultaneously. Sometimes rendered sentimentally, literally, cryptically or otherwise metaphorically oblique, they are both detached and reflective and at times often with a mischievous gaze, making innocent jokes, and at other times being ironical and quizzical too."
courtesy:saffronart
#art #painting #figurative #popularart #contemporaryartist #surendrannair#artvillecontemporary #artgallery
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