Works by Baiju Parthan and Bose Krishnamachari at ‘Mapmakers’ show

A major show at The Aicon Gallery based in New York traces the evolution of contemporary Indian art by bringing together works by some top artists of this generation like T.V. Santhosh who explores present-day crises through his art.

Historical significance- personally and socio-politically- drives Bose Krishnamachari's art

Recognized as an artist at the forefront of Contemporary Indian art, Bose Krishnamachari focuses on form with conceptual and contextual concerns in mind. Impressive planes of flat color are contrasted with recognizable and realistic persona, which infuse the work with an identifiable sensibility. His simultaneous qualities of being a prodigious producer of work, while being knowledgeable of contemporary art movements and histories, denote two distinguishing aspects carried through his work.

Bose Krishnamachari remains conscious of historical significance, both personally and socio-politically, apt to retain and highlight this aptitude via his artistic praxis. Using traditional techniques in image-making mixed with an underlying vernacular message, he strives to elicit an idiom that is refreshingly contemporary and brisk.

Baiju Parthan works on the fringes of the mainstream

Elaborating upon the recesses of a personal process, Baiju Parthan’s fascination with transcending mediums is explored in his richly textured works. His work combines both celebration and lament, archaic and modern, utilizing a mirrored reality suggesting a world or mind undergoing the motions of change – disintegration, permutation, evolution – as the result of a restless gaze, unable to settle on one space or thing for long.

To put it in his own words that explain his artistic philosophy, “The art I produce currently addresses the dematerialization or erosion of tactility of the real, and its effect on our being and existence.” Parthan works on the fringes of the mainstream and the unreal, wary of the constraints of established visual lexicons, he weaves a common thread of the cosmic narrative, addressing the present, past and future in one moment.“