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The artist currently resides in the United Kingdom. Shibu Natesan chooses to work as a realist using two strategies – directness and detachment. His details tie his subjects to a concrete reality but this perfection adds a certain detachment or emotional distancing. Viewing Natesan's paintings and reading Garcia Marquez, create a similar presence of magic realism. Natesan's reality is literal, yet does not appear familiar. His canvasses are spaces inhabited by the presence of a felt absence.
Born 1966, in Trivandrum Kerala
Education
1982-87 B.F.A. Painting, College of Fine Arts, Trivandrum, Kerala
1989-1991 M.F.A. Print Making, Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University, Baroda
1996-97 Participant, Rijksalademie Van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2007 Each One Teach One, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
2005 Vision Unlimited, Grosvenor Gallery, London
Existence of Instinct, Shridharani Art Gallery, New Delhi, organized by Sakshi Gallery,
Mumbai
2001-02 Paintings, Galerie Nanky De Vreese, Amsterdam and Sakshi Gallery, Bangalore
1999 Missing, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
1998 Nature Morte, New Delhi
1997 Linkage, Gallery de Vreese, Amsterdam
1995 Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
Futility of Device", Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University, Baroda
Selected Group Exhibtions
2006 Parallel Realities", Asian Art Now, Blackburn Museum, Lancashire, England
Making the Divinity, curated by Ina Pury, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
Altered Realities, Aicon Gallery, New York
2005 Parallel Realities", The third Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum,
Japan
XIth Triennial India, Lalit Kala Akademi, Tabindra, New Delhi
2004 In transit, Sakshi Gallery and Alexander Ochs Galleries at Temporary Gallery, Berlin
Generation -1, Guild and Saffronart Gallery, Mumbai
2003 Creative Space, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
Habitat Centre, New Delhi
Master Strokes, Art Musings, Mumbai
Crossing Generations, diverge Gallery, Chemould, NGMA, Mumbai
2002 Cinema Still Art, Apparao Galleries, India
Real in Realism, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
Transfiguration, Art Inc. India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
2001 Engendering – Images of Women, Guild Gallery, Mumbai
Figures in my Mind, Espece Gallery, New Delhi
2000 A Global View: By Fine Art Resource, Jenhangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
Exile and Longing, Lakeeren, Mumbai