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Shibu Natesan: Four Favourites and Other Works

Shibu Natesan: Four Favourites and Other Works

Shibu Natesan: Four Favourites and Other Works

17th January 2024 - 7th March 2024

Art Alive Gallery, S-221,Panchsheel Park, New DelhiView Works
Can an artist from one culture pick favorites from the art history of another through the lens of his art practice? Yes, says Shibu Natesan, by painting a still life of a stack of monographs on four painters spanning four centuries of Western art history: the 17th century Frans Hals, 18th century Goya, 19th century Manet and 20th century John Sargent. Using painterly means, Natesan creates favorites within favorites as in the case of Sargent whose monograph faces the front; not only do we see the artist’s name on the spine of the book but even his painting that adorns the front cover. Suffering from none of the guilt that many Indian artists have had to confront about ‘aping’ western artists, Natesan frankly, confidently and in a ‘painterly’ mode declares his sources of inspiration with élan. May be, a postcolonial move to shrug off anxieties of derivative discourse, it is through his painterly practice that Natesan holds conversations with these four artists from Europe and makes them his immediate contemporaries.
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