Lot 303: f - Shibu Natesan , b. 1966 Untitled watercolour on paper

watercolour on paper

152.5 by 122cm.; 60 by 48in.

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

Executed in 2005.
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)