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A Balasubramaniam
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Balasubramaniam’s latest works are a play of shadows through which he questions the viewer’s belief in the unseen and the unknown – encouraging them to query their own consciousness. After stripping down a form to its bare minimum, Balasubramaniam allows it to grow again through a series of shadows – although seen, intangible to the sense of touch. Each form and its multiple shadows share their own camaraderie with the element of light....
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Balasubramaniam’s latest works are a play of shadows through which he questions the viewer’s belief in the unseen and the unknown – encouraging them to query their own consciousness. After stripping down a form to its bare minimum, Balasubramaniam allows it to grow again through a series of shadows – although seen, intangible to the sense of touch. Each form and its multiple shadows share their own camaraderie with the element of light. With some appearing darker and deeper than others, the notion of transcendental infinity is also established.
“Despite the strong visual affirmation involved in witnessing Bala’s works, we are nevertheless challenged to believe what we see. Our sense of perception, of reality, is questioned and at times evokes a contradictory realization” says Deepak Talwar of Talwar Gallery, Delhi and New York.
Born in Tamil Nadu in 1971, Balasubramaniam received his Bachelor’s degree in fine arts from the Government College of Arts, Chennai, in 1995. In 1998, he studied printmaking at EPW Edinburgh, UK, after which he pursued his love for the genre at the Universitat fur Angewandte Kunste in Wien, Austria. He has travelled extensively and exhibited in France, Spain, Egypt, Japan, Malaysia, Finland, Norway and USA. Amongst his solo shows are '(In)Between' and ‘(In)Visible’ at Talwar Gallery, New Delhi, in 2009 and 2007 respectively; Talwar Gallery, New York, in 2007; ‘(Desi)re’ at Talwar Gallery, New York, in 2005; ‘Transition and Transformation’ at the Fine Arts Museum, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, also in 2005; and Talwar Gallery, New York, in 2004. His most recent group endeavors include ‘Freedom 2008 – Sixty Years after Indian Independence’ at the Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata, in 2008; ‘The Inverted Tree’ at Gallery Threshold, New Delhi, in 2005; ‘Indian Summer’ at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, also in 2005; and ‘Solitude’ at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, in 2003.
The artist lives and works in Bangalore.
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Born
1971
Nellai Tamil Nadu
Education
1990-95 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Government College of Arts, Chennai, India
1997-98 EPW Edinburgh, (Printmaking), UK
1998-99 Universitat fur Angewandte Kunste (Printmaking) Wien, Austria
Exhibitions
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2018 'Liquid Lake Mountain', Talwar...
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2018 'Liquid Lake Mountain', Talwar Gallery, New Delhi
2016 'Rain in the midnight', Talwar Gallery, New York
2015 'Layers of Wind, Lines of Time', Talwar Gallery, New Delhi
2012 'Nothing From My Hands', Talwar Gallery, New Delhi concurrently also at Talwar Gallery, New York
2011 'Sk(in)', Two-part Sculptural Installation, part of the Show Intersections at The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
2009 '(In)Between', Talwar Gallery, New Delhi
2007 ‘(In)Visible’, Talwar Gallery, New Delhi
2007 Talwar Gallery, New York
2005 ‘(Desi)re’, Talwar Gallery, New York
2005 ‘Transition and Transformation’, Fine Arts Museum, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
2005 Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina, US
2004 Talwar Gallery, New York
2002 Fundacio pilar i Joan Miro, Spain
2002 ‘Recent Constructions’, Talwar Gallery, New York
2002 The British Council, Chennai , India
2002 Apparao Gallery, Chennai, India
2001 Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, India
2001 Alliance Francaise de Bangalore, India
2000 ‘Within The Void’, Queens Art Gallery, New Delhi
2000 Association Mouvement Art Contemporain, Chamalieres, France
2001 The British Council, New Delhi, India
1999 Art Folio, Chandigarh, India
1999 Die Kleine Galerie, Vienna, Austria
1999 Carloz lozano Gallery, Cadaques, Spain
1999 Edinburgh printmakers workshop, UK
1998 Taller galleria Fort, Cadaques, Spain
1998 Art Inc, New Delhi, India
Selected Group Exhibitions
2018 'You Remind Me of Someone', FRAC Lorraine, Metz
2015 'Intersections, works from the collection', The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
2014 'City Dwellers', Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
2013 'Wall', Columbus College of Art & Design, Columbus, Ohio
2012 ' Look Now', Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey
2011 'Anecdotes', Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
2011 'High-Light', presented by Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai at The Oberoi, Gurgaon
2010 'A Summer View', Talwar Gallery, New Delhi
2010 'Symbols and Metaphors', Centre of International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata
2009 'India: Take Three', Kings Road Gallery, Chelsea
2008-09 'Where In The World', Devi Art Foundation, New Delhi
2008 ‘Freedom 2008 – Sixty Years after Indian Independence’, Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata
2005 ‘The Inverted Tree’, Gallery Threshold, New Delhi
2005 ‘Indian Summer’, Ecole de Beaux Arts, Paris
2003 ‘Solitude’, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
2002 ‘Finding The Center at the Margins’, Chennai
2002 ‘Cutting Edge Contemporary’, Mumbai
2002 ‘Borderless Terrain’, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
2001 ‘Finding The Center at the Margins’, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA), New Delhi
2001 Junge Kunstler sind westfalen, Munster, Germany
2001 ‘In Conversation’, Gallery Espace, New Delhi
2001 ‘Palette 2001’, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
2001 Saffronart and Apparao Galleries, Los Angeles
2000 ‘Aar Paar’, Exchange exhibition between India and Pakistan
1999 ‘Edge of the Century’, New Delhi
1999 ‘KHOJ’, International Workshop, India
1998 ARKS Gallery, London, UK
1997 ‘Fifty year of Art in Independent India’, Chennai, India
1997 SSA Exhibition at Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, UK
1994 ‘Group show 94’,Government Museum, Chennai
Participations
2017 'Transforming Vision: 21st century art from the Pizzuti Collection', Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, Ohio
2012 'All our relations', 18th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney
2011 'Beyond The Self', National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
2011 'Time Unfolded', Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA), New Delhi
2010 'On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century', The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York
2010 'Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum Rotunda', Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
2009 'Contemporary Indian Art: Open Your Third Eye', National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul
2008 'Chalo! India: A New Era of Indian Art', 5th Anniversary Exhibition, Mori Art Museum, Japan
2007 Represented by Talwar Gallery, USA at Art Basel, Miami Beach, USA
2006 ‘Belief’, Singapore Biennial, Singapore
2001 8th International Cairo Biennale, Cairo, Egypt
2001 6th International Biennial of Drawing and Graphic Arts, Gyor, Hungary
2000 International Print Triennial, Cracow, Poland
2000 Intergrafia, Katowice, Poland
2000 3rd International Triennial of Graphic Art, Bitola, Macedonia
2000 6th International Biennial of Miniature Art, Yugoslavia
2000 1st Cheju International Prints Art Festival, Korea
2000 5th Triennial Mondiale D’Estampes Petit Format, Chamalieres, France
2000 Concours 3rd Millenaire, Chamalieres, France
2000 4th Muestra Latino Americana International Miniprint, Argentina
1999 12th Norwegian International Print Triennial, Norway
1999 5th International Biennial of Drawing and Graphics, Gyor, Hungaray
1999 12th International Exhibition of Graphic Art, Frenchen, Germany
1999 ‘UHH International Invitational Exhibition’, University of Hawai, USA
1999 2nd International Exlibris Exhibition, Council of Europe, Croatia
1999 Premio International Biella, Italy
1999 10th International Exhibition of Small Graphics, Lodz, Poland
1999 4th British International Miniature Print Exhibition, UK
1999 VI International Art Triennial, Majdanek, Poland
1998 1st International Print Triennial, Kanagawa, Japan
1998 7th International Triennial of Prints and Drawings, Vaasa, Finland
1998 11th Tallinn Print Triennial, Tallinn, Estonia
1998 ‘Labyrinth’, 2nd International Triennial of Graphic Art, Prague, Czech Republic
1998 5th International Biennial of Miniature Art, Yugoslavia
1998 International Culture Exchange Exhibition, Tokyo
1998 Agart World Print Festival, Ljubljana, Slovenia
1997 4th Bharat Bhavan International Print Biennial, Bhopal
1997 4th Sapporo International Print Biennial, Sapporo, Japan
1997 International Print Triennial, Krakow, Poland
1997 8th International Biennial of Print and Drawing Exhibit, Taipei, Taiwan
1997 Intergrafia, Katowice, Poland
1997 International Mini print Biennial ,Cluj, Romania
1997 International Culture Exchange Exhibition, Japan
1997 40th National Exhibition of Contemporary Art, India
1997 2nd Malaysia International Contemporary Print Exhibition, Malaysia
1996 Egypt International Print Triennial, Giza, Egypt
1995 3rd Sapporo International Print Biennial, Sapporo, Japan
1995 Tokyo International Mini print Triennial, Tokyo
1993 Egypt International Print Triennial, Giza, Egypt
1992 Regional Art Exhibition, Lalit Kala Academy, Chennai
1991 International Mini Print Exhibition, Taller Galleria Fort, Barcelona, Spain
1990 Tamil Nadu Ovia NunKalai Kuzhu Exhibition, Chennai
Honours and Awards
2006 Sanskriti Award, India
2001 Kunstlerdorf’s fellowship,...
2006 Sanskriti Award, India
2001 Kunstlerdorf’s fellowship, Schoppingen , Germany
2001 Fundacio pilar i Joan Miro Awards for Graphics, Spain
2000 Honorable Award in 3rd International triennial of graphic art, Bitola, Onia
1999 UNESCO - ASCHBERG Bursaries for Artists for Residency at Vienna, Austria.
1998 Grand prix in the 5th International Biennial of Miniature Art, Yugoslavia
1998 Residency at the Mac Dowell Colony Inc., USA
1998 Grand Prix in World Print Festival 1998 for Mini Print, Ljubljana, Slovenia
1998 Grapheion Review Award in International Print Biennial, Prague, Czech Republic
1997 Junior Fellowship from Government of India
1997 Grand prize in 4th Bharat Bhavan International Print Biennial, Bhopal, India
1997 Tamil Nadu Ovia Nunkalai Kuzhu Annual Exhibition Award, Chennai, India
1997 The Charles Wallace India Trust Arts Fellowship Award, UK
1997 17th Mini Print International Award, Cadaques, Spain
1997 Honorary Mention in International Mini print Biennial, Cluj, Romania
1996 2nd Egyptian International Print Triennial Award, Giza, Egypt
1995 3rd Sapporo International Print Biennial Sponsor Award, Sapporo, Japan
1995 Research Grant Award from Lalit Kala Akademi, India
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