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词条 N. N. Rimzon
释义

  1. Early life

  2. Career

  3. Solo exhibitions

  4. Selected Group Exhibitions

  5. References

  6. External links

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| birth_name = Nedumgottil Narayanan Rimzon
| birth_date = 1957
| birth_place = Kakkoor, Kerala
| spouse = Daisy mathew
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}}N. N. Rimzon (born 1957) is an Indian artist known primarily for his symbolic and enigmatic sculptures.[1]

His metal, fiberglass and stone sculptures have won him international acclaim, though in recent years his drawings have gained recognition.[2]

Early life

Rimzon studied sculpture at the College of Fine Arts, Thiruvananthapuram. He studed at Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, where he was considered among the best of the upcoming generation of artists that stemmed from MSU luminaries such as Jyoti Bhatt and Bhupen Khakhar.[3] In 1989 he earned his MA with distinction from the Royal College of Art, London.[4]

Career

As a young man Rimzon experienced the political upheaval that accompanied Indira Gandhi’s Emergency during the mid-1970s. This was one factor that moved him away from narrative painting to experimentation with conceptually motivated sculpture. Rimzon concentrated on themes that depicted humanity’s entrapment and anguish in a hostile environment that was of man’s own making. In The Inner Voice (1992), a sculpted nude figure, cast in fiberglass, is displayed with its back against the wall and surrounded by a semicircle of cast iron swords. In Speaking Stones (1998), a crouching nude figure uses its hands to both hold its head and shield its eyes. The figure is surrounded by naturally sharp stones, which rest on photographs depicting massacres, demolitions, and other acts of communal violence that have been part of India’s more recent history.[1]

Born in the Indian state of Kerala, Rimzon’s artistic vocabulary finds root in symbols derived from the rural landscape of southern India: the village compound, the palm tree, the temple, the forest pathway and the handmade canoe. In Rimzon’s drawings he develops the themes that are found in his sculpture. Charcoal and dry pastel is used with a simple grace of line to create an often eerie and evocative stillness. This pristine tranquility seems to be intruded upon by symbols such as the sword and the felled tree. A sense of tragedy or alienation underlies depictions of what might otherwise be thought to be rural idylls.[2] Rimzon’s later works seem as much concerned with ecological threats as with communal aggression.[5]

N. N. Rimzon’s work can be found in the collections of The National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi and Mumbai, The Chester Herwitz Trust, Massachusetts, U.S.A., The Foundation for Indian Artists, Amsterdam, and the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.[4]

Solo exhibitions

  • 2016: Talwar Gallery, Forest of the Living Divine, New York, NY, US
  • 2007: Bodhi Art, Liminal Embodiment, Seven Oceans and the Unnumbered Stars, New York, NY, US
  • 2005: Kashi Art Gallery, N.N. Rimzon: Works on paper, Kochi, India
  • 1993: Gallery Foundation for Indian Artists, N.N. Rimzon, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • 1991: Art Heritage Gallery, Recent Sculpture and Drawings, New Delhi, India

Selected Group Exhibitions

  • 2014: National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rewriting the Landscape: India and China, Seoul, South Korea
  • 2012: 5th Beijing International Art Biennale, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
  • 2009: Talwar Gallery, Excerpts from Diary Pages, New York, NY, US
  • 2008: Museum of Contemporary Art, Santhal Family: Positions Around an Indian Sculpture, Antwerp, Belgium
  • 2007: National Gallery of Modern Art, Edge of Desire: Recent Art in India, Mumbai, India
  • 2006: Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, Edge of Desire: Recent Art in India, Berkeley, CA, US
  • 2005: House of World Cultures, The Artist Lives and Works in Baroda/Bombay/Calcutta/Mysore/Rotterdam/Trivandrum, Berlin, Germany
  • 2004: Art Gallery of Western Australia, Edge of Desire: Recent Art in India, Perth, Australia
  • 2003: House of World Cultures, subTerrain, Berlin Germany
  • 2002: Manchester Art Gallery, Art South Asia, Manchester, UK
  • 1998: The Japan Foundation Forum, Private Mythology, Tokyo, Japan

References

1. ^{{cite book|author=Amrita Jhaveri|title=A Guide to 101 Modern and Contemporary Indian Artists|publisher=India Book House|year=2005|isbn=81-7508-423-5}}
2. ^Chandran T. Payyanur, N.N. Rimzon, Kashi Art Gallery, 2005
3. ^Ashish Radadhyaksha, Contemporary Art In Baroda, Tulika Publishers, 1997, {{ISBN|81-85229-04-X}}
4. ^Anoop Skaria and Dorrie Younger, N.N. Rimzon, Kashi Art Gallery, 2005
5. ^Karen Miller-Lewis, Back to Nature, Art India, Quarter III, 2007

External links

  • The Asian Age, Nature and Femininity, July 2016.
  • Art India, Magic Under the Skies, April 2016.
  • Mint, The Modernist Sprawl, February 2016.
  • Online biography
  • N.N. Rimzon on ArtNet
  • [https://www.flickr.com/photos/rimzon/ Rimzon photos on Flickr]
  • Rimzon website
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