galerie 88 - Art Chennai
galerie 88 - Art Chennai
galerie 88 - Art Chennai
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MYTHOLOGY<br />
BAIJU PARTHAN<br />
(b.1956)<br />
ART GALLERY | LATITUDE 28<br />
Baiju Parthan is considered to be an important new media art pioneer within the Indian contemporary<br />
art context. Parthan worked as an engineer initially and his initiation into the world of art started with<br />
a chance encounter with an <strong>Art</strong> History book. Following this, pursuing his interest he moved to Goa to<br />
pursue his Bachelor’s degree in Fine <strong>Art</strong>s from the Goa College of <strong>Art</strong>s. Here the alternative lifestyle<br />
and culture of the place inspired him, as did his readings in Philosophy and mythology. He also pursued<br />
these subjects academically at the University of Bombay.<br />
His eclectic background is what characteristically defines Baiju Parthan’s works. Informed by mythology<br />
and technology, his works capture an interstice between the two, a crisis of tradition and technology<br />
manifesting in a unique blend of the two, and how they complement each other. It was possibly his<br />
aptitude for science that allowed him to be one of the first artists in the country to pick up on<br />
the enveloping influence of cyberspace and the digital realm on social realities, incorporating these<br />
elements in his work. This knowingness probably enabled him to cross over from painting to experiment<br />
with more innovative mediums such as material that allowed for magnetic fields to dictate the formal<br />
elements of his work and more interactive, programming-based art.<br />
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