Chintan Upadhyay
Chintan Upadhyay was born Aug 18 1972 BirthPartapur, Rajasthan, India.
Lives and works in HomeMumbai.
Categories: Painting
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Our new world of transgenic realities and virtual possibilities, hologramic existences and laser images, photocoagulative tissue fixing, in vitro fertilizations and ex vivo zygote building, possibilities of maneuvering and choreographing realities has made it possible to have a new order for the world. What is this new order is precisely the contestation that Chintan wants to put forward through his two shows starting in Mumbai, beginning of this year. The new order has to be necessarily viewed in the context of late capitalist consumerist paradise, which we are part of, as players and as viewers simultaneously. Hyper reality is the new order of the real, or ‘ireal’ is the new real, is the polemic that he offers through his new works…
In this three part essay JohnyML looks at Chintan Upadhyay’s new paintings that deal with the issue of female infanticide and foeticide. He discusses the formation of a rebellious subjectivity that defies the common notion of an artist as the producer of a style vis-à-vis Chintan’s latest set of paintings…
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Chintan Upadhyay is a leading contemporary artist in the midst of the nation’s modern art boom. Hailing from Jaipur, a city at the heart of India’s traditional arts, Chintan is the son of a once aspiring modern artist who struggled to overcome the overwhelming national preference for traditional art…
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Documents of Contemporary Art. Utopias: Throughout its diverse manifestations, the utopian entails two related but contradictory elements: the aspiration to a better world, and the acknowledgment that its form may only ever live in our imaginations. Furthermore, we are as haunted by the failures of utopian enterprise as we are inspired by the desire to repair the failed and build the new... |
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South African Art Now. South African Art Now documents, through in-depth essays and stunning full-color photographs, the remarkable work of nearly one hundred South African artists working in every medium from painting, sculpture, and video to cutting-edge performance art. This lush volume includes the impressive work of art world stars such as William Kentridge and Marlene Dumas; newly prominent artists such as Berni Searle, Robin Rhode, and Mustafa Maluka; and exciting newcomers still unknown outside their own country, but clearly marked for success... |
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James Rosenquist. Painting Below Zero: Notes on a Life in Art. “Frank, funny, truthful, ironic and in every way an entertaining account of one major American artist’s involvement in an art movement that interests everyone–and, more than that, of his own character. Jim Rosenquist is a true American original and his book ought to be read by anyone who wants to understand the last half-century of his country’s visual culture, high, low, and in between.” –Robert Hughes, amazon |
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