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Lot 61 PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT COLLECTION, NEW DELHI
My work is informed by history, mythology, real and imaginary events, art history, notions of tradition and identity and its relationship with modernity, language, sexuality, politics, and other faiths, etc. Without emphasizing any of these in particular, I address these issues simultaneously. I create a vocabulary of images that are fed from a variety of sources and this offers me rich and diverse parables of reference to structure connectives and marry evocative associations of meaning. The images are often like cryptic clues, which assist one to decode the invested meaning that is disguised through oblique and elaborate devices of representation.
Surendran Nair
My work is informed by history, mythology, real and imaginary events, art history, notions of tradition and identity and its relationship with modernity, language, sexuality, politics, and other faiths, etc. Without emphasizing any of these in particular, I address these issues simultaneously. I create a vocabulary of images that are fed from a variety of sources and this offers me rich and diverse parables of reference to structure connectives and marry evocative associations of meaning. The images are often like cryptic clues, which assist one to decode the invested meaning that is disguised through oblique and elaborate devices of representation.
Surendran Nair
SURENDRAN NAIR (B. 1956)
The Labyrinth of Eternal Delight
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Surendran Nair's works combine Indian and Greek mythology in dreamlike compositions which remind us of the surrealist artworks of René Margritte. This beautiful set of 42 hand-coloured prints lets the viewer dive into a surrealist world of obscure creatures and landscapes, where the artist captures the unusual and the worrying in his scrupulous observation of objects of the most banal, everyday reality.