Initially Baiju Parthan resisted a career as an artist. "In Kerala" he explains "you are what your work is. And in Kerala's Communist schema the artist is at the lowest rung of society." Parthan began as an engineer but was drawn into the world of art in 1974 when he stumbled onto a book detailing

the thoughts he shared with fellow artist Baiju Parthan who was also a part of the program BP What are your observations on the current art scene ...did (reproduced here) to Dinesh and Minal Vazirani. I made friends Punya Nagpal Sandhya Gorthi Baiju Parthan Mark Tauriello... All means

of Indian contemporary artists including Anjana Mehra Babu Eshwar Prasad Baiju Parthan Babu Namboodiri Hanuman Kambli Justin Ponmany and others whose works

Galleries Berlin 2003 ‘Small Format Works Two Painters’ with Baiju Parthan Art Musings Mumbai Participations 2009 'ARCOmadrid' Spain

should work as a better slogan for coke" (Baiju Parthan... Parthan`s paintings are essentially involved with issues of identity. Here the image of a man is `dissolved` by a chemical substance. This painting

Baiju Parthan “operates deftly with the vocabulary of mass culture making sophisticated play with its seductive images and capsule wisdom…[His]...of majoritarianism subverting their formulaic slogan-driven visual languages to his own idiosyncratic purposes” (Ranjit Hoskote Baiju Parthan A User’s Manual

Fascinated with new media and the influence of the digital realm on our lives "…Baiju Parthan brings a rigorous intellectual base to a complex ...genetic engineering and nanotechnology to name a few – Parthan’s practice aims at presenting the fact that ‘all cosmological narratives histories

Often described by his biographer Ranjit Hoskote as a ‘techno-shaman’ Baiju Parthan’s cryptic images emerge from the interdigitation of his various ...existence. In the mid 1990s after Parthan acquired his first computer his "…handling of pictorial space underwent a radical shift as did his systems

According to Baiju Parthan the work of an artist is to extend and make visible “unexpected and imagined potentialities that are not evident within ...like scenes that approach the idea of `the real` in a novel way “…for Baiju reality is less about empirical exactitude and more about the complex web

With an eclectic academic background in engineering botany hardware technology comparative mythology painting art history and philosophy Baiju Parthan's artistic vocabulary is anything but straightforward. Further complicating his idiom is the fact that the artist has always been fascinated

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AND FEATURES Baiju Parthan searches for link between technology, history & postmodern lives Baiju ...in our postmodern lives, and tries to launch a query into 'what makes us who we are.' Through a wide array of media, the artist Baiju Parthan attempts

AND FEATURES Baiju Parthan's digital images Baiju Parthan's new series of digital images titled 'Vapour'... carried out by a gene called the meme. Even the theory may be incomprehensible, the resultant images are worth a watch! Baiju Parthan's new set

AND FEATURES The show by Baiju Parthan and Shibu Natesan Two prominent artists from southern India -Baiju ...resides in Baroda. The other artist on view, Baiju Parthan, feels that the real challenge for him as a painter is not how to delineate his location

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