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Babu Eshwar Prasad was born in 1968 in Karnataka. He finished his Bachelor's Degree of Fine Arts in painting from the College of Fine Arts, Bangalore in 1989 and his Master's degree in printmaking from the Fine Arts Faculty of the MS University, Baroda in 1992. In 1989-91 he won the National Scholarship, Ministry of Human Resources and Development and worked under the supervision of the eminent artist K. Laxma Goud, whilst at Baroda....
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Babu Eshwar Prasad was born in 1968 in Karnataka. He finished his Bachelor's Degree of Fine Arts in painting from the College of Fine Arts, Bangalore in 1989 and his Master's degree in printmaking from the Fine Arts Faculty of the MS University, Baroda in 1992. In 1989-91 he won the National Scholarship, Ministry of Human Resources and Development and worked under the supervision of the eminent artist K. Laxma Goud, whilst at Baroda.
Prasad's paintings explore landscapes recalled and recreated through the mind's eye during dreams. Some critics have called these mystical and surreal pictures psychoscapes, or landscapes that have been touched and moulded by the inner self and the alternative reality of dreams. The artist's mind creates and modifies visions of nature, transforming them into patterns and harmonious blends that no one else could imagine, let alone see. There is also a certain nostalgic quality to these psychoscapes, as if the artist is trying to recall the stories and fantasies of his youth, which much to his disappointment have lost their magic when viewed through an adult lens.
Prasad's vocabulary has been describes as an "imagery exploring a psychic map, which he navigates with the amazement of a child, into a world of chimeras, sacred mountains, speaking trees and unknown waters." Often turning to the picture within a picture format, Prasad creates situations that are twisted away from the familiar, but yet not as far away as to be totally unrecognizable. Each form, figure or architectural and natural element is very clear to the viewer, and only transformed in the sense of the role it plays or the position it occupies. Everything that is expected is turned on its head and the artist has no qualms in painting a blood red sky or mountains that are bright yellow.
Babu Eshwar Prasad has participated in several group shows, including 7 of the Karnataka Lalit Kala Academy's annual shows from 1987 to 1993, four National Exhibitions in New Delhi from 1988 to 1991, two all India exhibitions at the Chitra Kala Parishath in Bangalore, the 1988 AIFACS Exhibition in New Delhi, the 1990 all India Drawing and Graphics Exhibition in Gulbarga and the 1993 Prints Today show at the Bangalore Alliance Francaise.
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Born
1968
Hassan Karnataka
Education
1992 Master of Fine Arts (Graphics), Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda
1989-90 Kanoria Center for Arts, Ahmedabad
1989 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting), College of Fine Arts, Bangalore
Exhibitions
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2007 ‘Time Past, Time Present, Time...
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2007 ‘Time Past, Time Present, Time to Come…, Bodhi Art, Mumbai
2002 ‘Smiles and Shadows’, Sakshi Gallery, Bangalore, Mumbai
1999 ‘Still Life’s of Emptiness’, Karnataka Chitrakala Parishat, Bangalore
1996 ‘The Midnight Sun’, Sakshi Gallery, Bangalore
Selected Group Exhibitions
2012 'Extending the Line', Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
2011 'At Walden Pond', Gallery Beyond, Mumbai
2010 'A. SYCO', The Viewing Room, Mumbai
2010 'Size Matters or Does it?', Part2 at Latitude 28, New Delhi
2010 'Size Matters or Does it?', Latitude 28, New Delhi
2009-10 'Evidentia', Gallery Sumukha, Bangalore
2009 'Towards a New Viewership/ Audience', presented by Art and Deal, New Delhi and Bakul Art Foundation, Bhubaneshwar at Art Konsult, New Delhi
2009 'Re-Visioning Materiality: Part II', Gallery Espace, New Delhi
2009 'Big Dreams’, Crimson Art Gallery, Bangalore
2009 'Metamorphosis: Change and Continuity in Indian Contemporary Art', Artworks, Cincinnati in Partnership with PAC Gallery, Phyllis Weston-Annie Bolling Gallery and the Krohn Conservatory
2009 'The Root of Everything', Gallery Mementos, Bangalore
2008 'The Sun Rises In The East: Contemporary Art From India', Kala Gallery / Gallerie Christian Hosp, Austria
2002 'Creative Space', presented by Sakshi Gallery at India Habitat Center, New Delhi
2002 "Finding the Center at the Margins" Apparao Galleries, Chennai
2001 "Excerpts from Diary Pages", The Fine Art Company, Mumbai
2001 "On The Edge of Volume", Sakshi Gallery, Bangalore
2001 "Ten Years of Sakshi Gallery" in Bangalore
2000 Art Today, New Delhi
2000 Art Indus, New Delhi
2000 "Eye of the South", Cymroza Art Gallery, Mumbai
1999 Art Today, New Delhi
1998 Sakshi Gallery, Bangalore
1997 Galleria Mareechika, Kochi
1997 "50 years of Karnataka Art - A Glimpse", Renaissance Gallery, Bangalore
1997 "50 years of Karnataka Art", Images Art Gallery, Bangalore
1997 Video Art, Max Mueller Bhavan, Bangalore
1994 "Trends in Contemporary Indian Art", Art Heritage, New Delhi
1994 Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
1994 Vithi, Baroda
1993 Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
1993 Alliance Francaise de Bangalore
1989 - 90 Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath, Bangalore
Participations
2010 'Size Matters...Or Does It? II', Latitude 28, New Delhi
2010 'Master’s Corner', organized by Indian Contemporary Art Journal at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai; India International Art Fair, New Delhi
2005 Arad Biennale, Romania
2005 South Asian Visual Arts Collective ( SAVAC), Toronto
1995 All India Fine Arts Exhibition, Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath, Bangalore
1993 "Prints Today", Karnataka Lalitha Kala Academy, Bangalore
1988 AIFACS Exhibition, New Delhi
1988 -91 National Exhibition, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
Honours and Awards
2001 Camlin Art Foundation
2000 Karnataka Lalitha Kala Academy
1999 Camlin Art Foundation
1998 H.K. Kejriwal Young Artist Award
1995 All India Fine Arts Award, Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath
1989-91 National Scholarship, Ministry of Human Resource Development
1997 Junior Fellowship, Ministry of Human Resource Development
2001 Camlin Art Foundation
2000 Karnataka Lalitha Kala Academy
1999 Camlin Art Foundation
1998 H.K. Kejriwal Young Artist Award
1995 All India Fine Arts Award, Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath
1989-91 National Scholarship, Ministry of Human Resource Development
1997 Junior Fellowship, Ministry of Human Resource Development
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