Lot 1001: ANIRBAN MITRA

ANIRBAN MITRA
(b. 1981)
High Tide, Low Tide, Tide Everywhere
signed 'Anirban Mitra 2008 Santiniketan' (on the reverse)
183.7 x 187 cm. (72 3/8 x 73 3/4 in.)
Painted in 2008

Incorporating images and motifs seen by the artist in his immediate surroundings, Anirban Mitra's paintings weave together elements of folk and tribal art, religion, mass media and popular culture. Consuming the entire canvas, sacrificing baseline and perspective for pattern and figuration, these works create fantastical and dreamlike situations that border on the absurd. Mitra, through these paintings touches on social issues particularly consumerism in India, where the masses struggle with maintaining their own traditional Indian identities while embracing new technology and products.