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"To recognize Shibu Natesan's paintings is to identify them as multiplicities, constitutive of both his thoughts and ours. The recognition is made clearer when we foreground the understanding that, as he paints, Natesan is aware of doing so within a sign-system wherein his images, culled from popular media, signify broad cultural narratives" (Deeksha Nath, "Shibu Natesan: Reading the Contemporary Moment", Voices of Change: 20 Indian Artists,... "To recognize Shibu Natesan's paintings is to identify them as multiplicities, constitutive of both his thoughts and ours. The recognition is made clearer when we foreground the understanding that, as he paints, Natesan is aware of doing so within a sign-system wherein his images, culled from popular media, signify broad cultural narratives" (Deeksha Nath, "Shibu Natesan: Reading the Contemporary Moment", Voices of Change: 20 Indian Artists, Marg Publications, Mumbai, 2010, p. 184).

The artist's works "…are specific celebrations or criticisms of localized practices, which in the best possible way, negate the current trend to place all narratives within a "global" space. The limitations, and to a certain extent failure, of a "global" discourse is that it tends to define the world within a totalitarian system of knowledge and refuses to acknowledge the importance of local specificity and difference and, therefore, inhibits equal intercultural, interracial and international exchange" (Ibid., p. 193).

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