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| Overview Nityan was born in 1976. His childhood was spent growing up in a home in Kerala that was part of the intellectual milieu of that period; it was a world populated by left leaning filmmakers, painters and academics. The artist studied ceramic design at the National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad and having completed his studies moved to Delhi to pursue a range of interests including pottery, illustration and crafts. Many Monsters, his debut solo show, is the outcome of two years of work. Nityan's paintings pull subject matter from a myriad of sources both real and imaginary; these include elements from his childhood in rural and small town Kerala as well as a student and working life entrenched in the charged atmosphere of large Indian cities. There are often filmic references in the works that trace their lineage through 'film noir' and express themselves in landscapes expressive of the urban underbelly. In many of the works the subject matter is concerned with the dynamic relationship between the individual (the self) and his or her wider community. Whilst in some of the works the individual is placed within landscapes, in others the landscapes (with their communities of unlikely actors) themselves reside within the body of the individual. These surreal inversions of reality take the viewer to the interior world of the subject and, by default, the artist himself. Nityan lives and works in New Delhi. |
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