Baiju Parthan

Baiju Parthan

Baiju Parthan, a painter, is known as a pioneer of intermedia art in India. While elaborating the workings of a mysterious inner universe through his paintings, Parthan has combined his painterly concerns with his explorations of cyberspace to produce a series of provocative, richly textured installations.

Written by the noted art critic, poet and independent curator Ranjit Hoskote, "Baiju Parthan: A User’s Manual" takes the reader on a tour through the artist’s diversely populated imagination. It maps Parthan’s journey from his childhood in Kerala, through his student years in Goa, to his struggle to find a niche in the contemporary Indian art scenario. This book records Parthan’s participation in the last years of the countercultural hippie scene, his encounters with spiritual teachings and shamanic lore, his experiments with form, and his engagement with media flows and alternative reality environments.

Baiju Parthan: A User’s Manual includes a monographic essay on the artist by Hoskote, as well as a freewheeling conversation between artist and author, extracts from Parthan’s journal, a section on his intermedia works, a selection of the artist’s occasional writings, and a biographical essay.

ee also

*The Arts Trust - Institute of Contemporary Indian Art

External links

* [http://www.swan.wa.gov.au/nrla/baiju.htm 2004-05 exhibit, NRLA Midland 05 (Australia)]
* [http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mag/2002/12/15/stories/2002121500590200.htm Ranjit Hoskote, "Amalgam of text and image", The Hindu (magazine), Dec 15, 2002]
* [http://www.hinduonnet.com/folio/fo0104/01040380.htm Nancy Adajania, "Between static and ghost
]
* [http://www.spitmag.org/baijuparthan/base.htm]
* [http://www.artconcerns.com/html/interview_baijuParthan.htm]


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