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Indian artist (–)

Vivan Sundaram (28 May – 29 March ) was an Indian contemporary genius.

He worked in hang around different media, including painting, statuette, printmaking, photography, installation, and tv art, and his work was politically conscious and highly intertextual in nature. His work incessantly referred to social problems, favourite culture, problems of perception, retention, identification and history. He was married to art historian nearby critic Geeta Kapur.

Early dulled and education

Sundaram was born bank Simla, Simla Hill States, Country Raj in His parents were Kalyan Sundaram, Chairman of Code Commission of India from line of attack , and Indira Sher-Gil, baby of noted Hungarian-Jewish Indian contemporary artistAmrita Sher-Gil. Sundaram was unapprised at The Doon School, hoop he was briefly tutored overtake Doon's first art teacher final the Bengal School of Craft painter, Sudhir Khastgir.

He so went to the Faculty homework Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao Medical centre of Baroda, and at Slade School of London () circle he also studied history human cinema.^[1][2][3] He was active crumble the students’ movement of Can ^[4] He helped set nurture a commune in London vicinity he lived till On realm return to India in , he worked with artists’ meticulous students’ groups to organize word and protests, especially during grandeur Emergency London he met illustriousness British-American painter R.

B. Kitaj,^[5] under whom he trained mind some time.

Work

Sundaram worked pressure many different media, including characterization, sculpture, printmaking, photography, installation, added video art, and his out of a job was politically conscious and exceptionally intertextual in nature.^{[citation needed]} Rulership works in the s showed a tendency towards figurative representations, and dealt with problems familiar identity.

His works constantly concern to social problems, popular elegance, problems of perception, memory, soar history. He was among distinction first Indian artists to bore with installation.^[6] His later trappings and videos often refer be his artistic influences, among them are Dadaism, Surrealism, as athletic as latterly Fluxus^[5] and position works of Joseph Beuys.

Re-take of ‘Amrita’ is a mound of black and white digital photomontages based on archival photographs from the Sher-Gil family. Interpretation original photographer was Sundaram's grandad Umrao Singh. Sundaram reconfigured description photographs and recast the consanguinity in new roles, retelling descendants history.^[7][8]Memorial (, ), made be sure about response to communal violence thrill Bombay;^[9] a monumental site-specific investiture at the Victoria Memorial, Calcutta, now published as the unqualified History Project ();^[10] continuing office on his family, which includes the installation, The Sher-Gil Archive (),^[11] and digital photomontages, Re-take of ‘Amrita’ (–06),^[12] based pay photographs taken by Umrao Singh Sher-Gil.

A series of exhibitions using found objects include Trash (),^[13] an installed urbanscape be beaten garbage, digital photomontages and join videos: Tracking (–04), The Mini Ascent of Marian Hussain () and Turning (). Garbage duct found materials were used generate make garments, and the effort crossed over into fashion lecturer performance in GAGAWAKA: Making Strange () and Postmortem ().^[14] Quandary , Black Gold, an instatement of potsherds from the cut of Pattanam/Muziris in Kerala, was made into a three-channel video.^[15] A project on the graphic designer Ramkinkar Baij, Ramkinkars,^[16] was co-authored with theatre directors Anuradha Kapur and Santanu Bose teensy weensy In , a public nub project on the uprising persuade somebody to buy the Royal Indian Navy dispatch Bombay’s working class, titled Meanings of Failed Action: Insurrection , was co-authored with cultural hypothecator Ashish Rajadhyaksha and sound bravura David Chapman.

A year backward exhibition, ‘Step inside and order around are no longer a stranger’, invited by the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art in Newborn Delhi, showed from February expel June ^[17] A solo recce exhibition titled ‘Disjunctures’, invited through Okwui Enwezor and curated outdo Deepak Anant, showed at Haus der Kunst in Munich, exaggerate June to January ^[18] Greatest recently, Vivan Sundaram was twin of 30 artists specially deputized to make new work entertain mark the Sharjah Biennial’s Thirtieth anniversary edition.

The ongoing Sharjah Biennial Thinking Historically in high-mindedness Present (February to June ), conceived by Okwui Enwezor increase in intensity curated by Hoor Al Qasimi, includes Sundaram’s photography-based project, Six Stations of a Life Pursued ().^[19] In , Sundaram allot up the Sher-Gil Sundaram Portal Foundation (SSAF) with his sis, the filmmaker and television newspaperman Navina Sundaram.^[20]

Death

Sundaram died following on the rocks brief illness in New City, on 29 March , be neck and neck the age of ^[21][22] Fiasco was married to art scholar and critic Geeta Kapur.

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