Shibu Natesan

Art Musings, Mumbai
Acquired directly form the above by the present owner

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate although the overall tonality is slightly softer in the original. Condition: This work is in very good condition and is securely held under plexiglass. There is a very slight undulation to the sheet throughout and a minor crease to the lower left corner tip. There are scattered dust particles beneath the plexiglass.
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Shibu Natesan's work fuses ideas and motifs from India's cultural past and present creating a new hybrid identity that speaks of the hopes, fears and aspirations of a nation undergoing rapid social and economic changes. An artist who divides his time between Baroda and London and whose large scale landscape paintings reveal unexpected combinations of sources from mass-media imagery to the work of German Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich, his bold palette and technical mastery of form result in a mixture of hyper-realism and fantasy that challenges preconceived notions of recognition and memory. "What you have to do," Natesan explains, "is to bring the impossible aspect into the possible, and the imaginative into the actual." (the artist cited on: www.grosvenorgallery.com)