Binu Bhaskar

Lot 220: Binu Bhaskar

Name: Binu Bhaskar
Brand: Christie's
SKU: gsfyys64lh

Est: $5,000 USD - $7,000 USDSold:

Christie'sNew York, NY, USSeptember 16, 2008

Item Overview

Description

Binu Bhaskar
Without/Bush # 1; Without/Bush #2
signed and dated in Malayalam (lower right)
digital print on archival paper; diptych
29½ x 73 in. (74.9 x 185.4 cm) each
Executed in 1996/07; single edition print
set of two prints (2)

Artist or Maker

Binu Bhaskar

Exhibited

New Delhi, Travancore Gallery, Distance, February 2008

Literature

Distance, Exhibition Catalogue, Bodhi Art, 2008 illustrated, unpaginated

Notes

These images are my attempt at a sensitive understatement of reality; the lifeless bird complements the fullness of the natural panorama. This is not a depiction of beauty, but there is neither morbidity nor exaggeration, the colours are muted.

The photographs are about witnessing in silence, the bush (Australian term for outskirts, nature, forest) as a whole living being, breathing, consuming and reusing. Both life and death are part of the cycle of nature, of the ecological system. The solorised green colour of the lush foliage lingers on the stilled life of the bird and while death silences one life millions of others continue unaware.

Binu Bhaskar (in dialogue with the artist)

Auction Details

South Asian Modern + Contemporary Art

Christie's

September 16, 2008, 10:00 AM EST

20 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY, 10020, US

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