Autumn Art Auction> Artwork Details > Stone of Emergency by Shibu Natesan

"To recognize Shibu Natesan's paintings is to identify them as multiplicities constitutive of both his thoughts and ours. The recognition is made ...media signify broad cultural narratives" (Deeksha Nath "Shibu Natesan Reading the Contemporary Moment" Voices of Change 20 Indian Artists Marg

Autumn Art Auction> Artwork Details > Untitled by Shibu Natesan

"To recognize Shibu Natesan's paintings is to identify them as multiplicities constitutive of both his thoughts and ours. The recognition is made ...media signify broad cultural narratives" (Deeksha Nath "Shibu Natesan Reading the Contemporary Moment" Voices of Change 20 Indian Artists Marg

Autumn Art Auction> Artwork Details > Untitled by Shibu Natesan

"To recognize Shibu Natesan's paintings is to identify them as multiplicities constitutive of both his thoughts and ours. The recognition is made ...media signify broad cultural narratives" (Deeksha Nath "Shibu Natesan Reading the Contemporary Moment" Voices of Change 20 Indian Artists Marg

Autumn Art Auction> Artwork Details > Untitled by Shibu Natesan

"To recognize Shibu Natesan's paintings is to identify them as multiplicities constitutive of both his thoughts and ours. The recognition is made ...media signify broad cultural narratives" (Deeksha Nath "Shibu Natesan Reading the Contemporary Moment" Voices of Change 20 Indian Artists Marg

Contemporary Indian Art: A Selection from the Amaya Collection> Artwork Details > Soul Searchers by Shibu Natesan

Shibu Natesan's large scale paintings juxtapose images taken from the media with the journalistic realism of photography. Natesan's often ironic tone ...." (Somak Ghoshal "Shibu Natesan Stranger Than Reality" Livemint 16 March 2013 online) The deliberately placed juxtaposition of figures here contrasts

Spring Auction 2010> Artwork Details > Take Me Where I Belong by Shibu Natesan

Although much of Shibu Natesan’s work is executed in his flawless photorealist idiom it exists in a parallel reality his is a dream-like surreal ...estrangement. Viewing Shibu Natesan’s paintings and reading Marquez create a similar presence of magic realism. Natesan’s ‘real-ness’ is literal but yet

Spring Auction 2008> Artwork Details > Each One Teach One by Shibu Natesan

Although they seem straightforward and familiar on initial examination Shibu Natesan’s hyper-realistic images are anything but comfortable. Rather ...an interpretation” (Shibu Natesan Each One Teach One Sakshi Gallery exhibition catalogue 2007 unpaginated). Born in Kerala and living between India

Winter Auction 2008> Artwork Details > Power Cut by Shibu Natesan

that's what I'm doing now" (as quoted in "Interview by Conor Macklin 16.05.05" Shibu Natesan Vision Unlimited Grosvenor Gallery exhibition catalogue 2005

Auction 2002 (December)> Artwork Details > Futility of Device - I by Shibu Natesan

" (Shibu Natesan on Futility of Device - I

Winter Auction 2010> Artwork Details > Jha-Love by Shibu Natesan

Sourcing his images from historical archives and current news media Shibu Natesan revels in juxtaposing seemingly unrelated elements on his canvases ...goal through such a becoming” (Deeksha Nath “Shibu Natesan – Reading the Contemporary Moment” Voices of Change 20 Indian Artists The Marg Foundation

Autumn Auction 2010> Artwork Details > Absence by Shibu Natesan

To call Shibu Natesan’s style photorealism is to resort to an easy and not entirely accurate label. Instead Natesan’s images must be recognized ...is encouraged to shift and re-focus their gaze and in many instances to re-address their own socio-political beliefs” (Anne Fleetwood Shibu Natesan Vision

Spring Auction 2007> Artwork Details > Day of Wonder by Shibu Natesan

With his formal training in printmaking Shibu Natesan`s “canvases are filled with blocks of bright colour like the glossy pages of a magazine ...popular culture lulls the viewer into a sense of the familiar the recognised and the emotionally detached” (Anne Fleetwood Shibu Natesan Vision Unlimited

Spring Online Auction: Modern and Contemporary South Asian Art and Antiquities> Artwork Details > Stand Alone by Shibu Natesan

Shibu Natesan is best known for his highly atmospheric photo- realistic paintings such as the present lot which on first glance appear ...by photographs as is the case in Stand Alone which is based on a photograph of Helsinki taken during Natesan’s travels there. This painting comes from

Summer Online Auction> Artwork Details > Approach by Shibu Natesan

There is the suggestion of the materials of sado-masochism in the black ribbons that tie the lion's paws. Shibu Natesan's work creates tension through ...the comfort of recognition. Given his painterly facility Natesan...brings in taut metaphors of physical domination and power structures in a world

Spring Auction 2008> Artwork Details > Untitled by Shibu Natesan

"Shibu Natesan’s imagery emanates out of deep respect and awareness of humanist issues. The early years in Marxist Kerala close reading of Latin American and African literature and progressive Indian and international cinema have been crucial in defining his idiom…Natesan’s work has been viewed