Ratnadeep Adivrekar
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Ratnadeep Gopal Adivrerkar (born November 13, 1974, Mumbai) is a contemporary artist from India. He has had several solo exhibitions and has participated in many group exhibitions like Pictures of Asia, Larasati, Singapore
, ‘Indian contemporary art’, Chelsea Art College, U.K., Ao~rta Project, BBK Kunst Forum, Düsseldorf and Ausstellungshalle Innenhafen, Duisburg
, Germany
. He has received a number of awards and scholarships. Ratnadeep lives and works in Mumbai, India.
in painting with first class in 1997 from the Sir J. J. School of Art in Mumbai.
, conceptually we know they are individual interpretations. Ratnadeep has rejected mechanical processes, preferring to explore the visual effects of mechanical technology by hand. Ratnadeep’s paintings have usually used techniques which are both time-consuming and physically demanding. Buried within this elaborate surface sometimes are sheets of manipulated expressive color drips transparent enough and mark making, bringing out the rawness of improvisation. His work refers directly to the enigma of metamorphosis and his imagery whispers to the subconscious coaxing it to the surface. Making us aware of Ratnadeep’s beliefs, the richness of his symbol
ism but yet mysterious eluding the logically understandable things and the depth of his ambitions - which combine to make new resonances.1
6From catalogue "Proverbial In(ter)ventions 2009"
Singapore
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, ‘Indian contemporary art’, Chelsea Art College, U.K., Ao~rta Project, BBK Kunst Forum, Düsseldorf and Ausstellungshalle Innenhafen, Duisburg
Duisburg
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, Germany
Germany
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. He has received a number of awards and scholarships. Ratnadeep lives and works in Mumbai, India.
Early life and education
Ratnadeep Adivrekar was born in 1974 in Mumbai, India. He is the son of artist Gopal S. Adivrekar. He received his BFABachelor of Fine Arts
In the United States and Canada, the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, usually abbreviated BFA, is the standard undergraduate degree for students seeking a professional education in the visual or performing arts. In some countries such a degree is called a Bachelor of Creative Arts or BCA...
in painting with first class in 1997 from the Sir J. J. School of Art in Mumbai.
About Work
Ratnadeep Gopal Adivrekar is an artist whose work defies easy definitions, having experimented with a wide range of styles and subject matter, bringing together metaphors from contradictory or unpredicted sources, both historical and contemporary, by using diverse materials and techniques. In fact Ratnadeep’s artistic multiplicity, and his resistance to any form of categorization, can be seen as the consistent theme in his work. The parts of painting have naturalist approximate based on photographic documentations. When a photograph is painted on canvas, the sense of realness in the images are complicated, while they may retain a high degree of verisimilitude, the loss of its mechanical tie to a specific situation. While our eyes perceive these paintings as photographyPhotography
Photography is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film...
, conceptually we know they are individual interpretations. Ratnadeep has rejected mechanical processes, preferring to explore the visual effects of mechanical technology by hand. Ratnadeep’s paintings have usually used techniques which are both time-consuming and physically demanding. Buried within this elaborate surface sometimes are sheets of manipulated expressive color drips transparent enough and mark making, bringing out the rawness of improvisation. His work refers directly to the enigma of metamorphosis and his imagery whispers to the subconscious coaxing it to the surface. Making us aware of Ratnadeep’s beliefs, the richness of his symbol
Symbol
A symbol is something which represents an idea, a physical entity or a process but is distinct from it. The purpose of a symbol is to communicate meaning. For example, a red octagon may be a symbol for "STOP". On a map, a picture of a tent might represent a campsite. Numerals are symbols for...
ism but yet mysterious eluding the logically understandable things and the depth of his ambitions - which combine to make new resonances.1
Quotes
My process of working is based on elective creative process. To built my art out of public spheres has been focal point of my work. Memoirs of the unreal city is about the city which is fast growing and overpowering forms catalyst in my work. The images of teeming vastness of the city at one point are crude and banal destined to fade and themselves destined to fade and disintegrate in to obscurity...- Ratnadeep Gopal AdivrekarWork
Ratnadeep’s desire to see everything at once is apparent in many of his paintings, perhaps most overtly in the overlay of one image on top of others, as if it were possible not just to see through a particular image but to hold them both in a sort of suspension. In these superimposed, suspended and translucent images the structure of narratives is overt. Each of the images is both there and not-there, as the eye is drawn from one to the other. Ratnadeep's works invite the spectator to consider. His task is to reintroduce their significance into a tension with form - but without allowing the images he uses to fall into utter nostalgia. His work is to help the spectator re-evaluate the power of the static image, its ability to make reference to our histories and its power to reinvoke our thoughts and our participation through small acts of attention.6From catalogue "Proverbial In(ter)ventions 2009"
Solo Exhibitions
- 2010 - Crimson Art Gallery, Bangalore.
- 2009 - Proverbial In(ter)vention, NUSNational University of SingaporeThe National University of Singapore is Singapore's oldest university. It is the largest university in the country in terms of student enrollment and curriculum offered....
Museum, Singapore. - 2004 - Refraction of ideas, Artists Centre, Mumbai.
- 2000 - Souvenirs from journeys within solo exhibition at Kala Academy, Panaji.
- 1999 - Exhibition at Jehangir Art GalleryJehangir Art GalleryThe Jehangir Art Gallery is Mumbai ’s most famous art gallery and a tourist attraction. It was founded by Sir Cowasji Jehangir at the urging of K. K. Hebbar and Homi Bhabha. It was built in 1952...
, Mumbai. - 1998 - Memoirs of the unreal city and findings through journeys. Chavan Art Gallery, Mumbai.
Awards
- 2003 - The Harmony Emerging Artist Award presented by the Harmony Art Foundation.
- 2002 - The Bendre Hussain Scholarship.
- 2002 - Maharashtra State Art Award, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai.
- 2001 - National Scholarship by Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi.
- 1999 - The Governors Prize at the Exhibition of The Bombay Art Society.
- 1996 - Best Painting Award at The Art Society of India Exhibition.
- 1994,96 - Merit Certificate the Exhibition of The Bombay Art Society.