Exhibition 9-30 January 2009 21 Ryder Street London, SW1Y 6PX
grosvenorvadehra.com
Mon-Fri: 9.30AM – 5.30PM Sat: 11AM – 4PM
Shibu Natesan creates smoothly rendered paintings with an exacting technique and almost flawless finish. Whilst his subject matter is of our world, he goes beyond simple representation, exploring a detached, surreal, dream-like quality by creating large scale canvases in which disassociated subjects and symbols are juxtaposed.
In this exhibition the emerging theme is that of the shifting relationship between man and nature. A suburban housing block is dwarfed behind a tangle of foxgloves; an abandoned restaurant is overrun by tropical fish. In one painting we see a jogger running towards us through a dense tangle of flowers, his face and body contorted by his efforts, which are overwhelmed by the lazy, whimsical growth of the flowers which dominate the large canvas. Natesan highlights the struggle of modern man and his structured disciplines with the unregulated forces of nature.
Shibu Natesan was born in Kerala, and studied painting at the College of Fine Arts in Trivandrum, in 1987, followed by a Masters Degree in Print Making from the Faculty of Fine Art, MSU, Baroda in 1991 and wont the Uriot prize, Rijksakadmie Van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam in 1996.
Exhibitions: 2007, Each One Teach One, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York; 2005 Vision Unlimited, Grosvenor Gallery, London; 2005 Existence of Instinct organized by Sakshi Gallery at Shridharani Gallery, New Delhi.
