Summer Auction 2010> Artwork Details > Systematic Citizen - III by Riyas Komu

In his Systematic Citizen series of large-format paintings Riyas Komu confronts the viewer with portraits of people who are often encountered but rarely noticed. Representing lower-middle-class working protagonists Komu renders them with almost confrontational gazes establishing them as equal

Spring Auction 2011> Artwork Details > Untitled by Riyas Komu

Riyas Komu began his series of massive portraits in the late 1990s. “These are the faces of people captured in the attitude of waiting of foreboding ...the families and desolations of our catastrophic epoch” (Ranjit Hoskote “The Menace of Framing The Persistence of Hope Recent Paintings and Sculptures by Riyas

24-Hour Contemporary Auction> Artwork Details > Systematic Citizen - XV by Riyas Komu

Brought up in a Marxist household in Kerala Riyas Komu was heavily involved in political activism during his student days. Moving to Bombay in 1991 ...then that Riyas Komu’s art is frequently confrontational engaging the establishment in protest – both explicit and implicit – against political violence

Autumn Auction 2010> Artwork Details > Systematic Citizen - XV by Riyas Komu

Brought up in a Marxist household in Kerala Riyas Komu was heavily involved in political activism during his student days. Moving to Bombay in 1991 ...then that Riyas Komu’s art is frequently confrontational engaging the establishment in protest – both explicit and implicit – against political violence

Spring Auction 2010> Artwork Details > Younus I by Riyas Komu

Riyas Komu began his series of massive portraits in the late 1990s. “These are the faces of people captured in the attitude of waiting of foreboding ...the families and desolations of our catastrophic epoch” (Ranjit Hoskote “The Menace of Framing The Persistence of Hope Recent Paintings and Sculptures by Riyas

Summer Auction 2009> Artwork Details > Systematic Citizen - XIII by Riyas Komu

Brought up in a Marxist household in Kerala Riyas Komu was heavily involved in political activism during his student days. Moving to Bombay in 1991 ...then that Riyas Komu’s art is frequently confrontational engaging the establishment in protest – both explicit and implicit – against political violence

Winter Auction 2008> Artwork Details > Holy Land - I by Riyas Komu

Through his large scale portraits Riyas Komu intends to create and spread political and social awareness. His carefully chosen images are sourced ...and political dispute. Even though these works portray moments of personal and social unrest Komu manages to draw the viewer’s attention

Summer Art Auction 2012> Artwork Details > Untitled by Riyas Komu

Riyas Komu's art is frequently confrontational engaging the establishment in protest - both explicit and implicit - against socioeconomic inequity ...and painting pushes the contented viewer out of his or her comfort zone. In the present lot for example Komu paints a larger-than-life portrait

Autumn Auction 2009> Artwork Details > Untitled by Riyas Komu

Riyas Komu’s disquieting portraits draw heavily from the artist’s upbringing and student-activism in Marxist Kerala. The present lot an early version ...in 2007 features an Iranian actress as its larger than life subject. Focusing the viewer’s attention on present day colonialism and its victims Komu