Amitesh Shrivastava
Translators I
2017
Acrylic on canvas
72 x 108 inches
Born in Khairagarh, Chhattisgarh in 1975, Amitesh Shrivastava obtained his BFA from Khairagarh University in 1997, and an MFA from Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda in 2000. Shrivastava mines his way through the experiential via acrylic paintings and ink drawings. He periodically breaks and remakes the brush-strokes, colour-palettes, hybridities, and protagonists of his pictorial world to reflect the continuous restructuring of his worldview.
Having maintained close ties with his hometown in Chhattisgarh – the so-called ‘pre-modern’ with its tribes, animals, trees, ‘crafts,’ urgencies, and deprivations, forms as much a part of Shrivastava’s reality as the world of digital technology, virtual reality, and urban life. Neither overtly political, nor intensely nostalgic, he strives to stay clear of abstract categorization, text-fixation, and neo-liberal forms of resistance. His works blur the divides between agrarian and technological economies to portray universal notions of humanity, social hierarchy, and the crumbling of our mediatized consciousness in beautiful, kaleidoscopic ways through expressionistic brush-strokes.
Shrivastava’s works have most recently been exhibited in several group shows including Stalkings and Other Stories curated by Prajna Desai at Project 88, Mumbai (2016), Other’s Other curated by Shreyas Karle at Gallery Art district XIII, New Delhi (2016), Len Den curated by Shreyas Karle and Hemali Bhuta at Mumbai Art Room (2015), räume für notizen (room for notes) curated by Gunter Vallaster, Wechselstrom gallery, Vienna (2014), among others.
He currently lives and works in Mumbai.
courtesy of project88.in