Ratnadeep Adivrekar

Ratnadeep Gopal Adivrerkar, (born November 13, 1974, Mumbai), is a well known Indian artist.
Ratnadeep Adivrekar is a contemporary artist from India. Born in 1974, he is the son of famous artist Gopal S. Adivrekar. He received his BFA in painting with first class from the Sir J. J. School of Art in Mumbai. He has had several important solo exhibition Like "Memoirs of the Unreal city", "Refraction of Ideas", and has participated in many important group exhibtions like Pictures of Asia, Larasati, Singapore, ‘Indian contemporary art’, Chelsea Art College, U.K., Ao~rta Project, BBK Kunst Forum, Dusseldorf and Ausstellungshalle Innenhafen, Duisburg, Germany.

His art has been awarded The Governors Prize, The State Art Award and National Scholarship by Lalit Kala Akademi, N. Delhi and more recently the Bendre M. F. Husain Scholarship. He has been awarded The Harmony Emerging Artist Award. Ratnadeep lives and works in Mumbai, India.

About Work

Ratnadeep Gopal Adivrekar is an artist whose work defies easy definitions, having experimented with a wide range of styles and subject matter, bringing together metaphors from contradictory or unpredicted sources, both historical and contemporary, by using diverse materials and techniques. In fact Ratnadeep’s artistic multiplicity, and his resistance to any form of categorization, can be seen as the consistent theme in his work. The parts of painting have naturalist approximate based on photographic documentations. When a photograph is painted on canvas, the sense of realness in the images are complicated, while they may retain a high degree of verisimilitude, it looses its mechanical tie to a specific situation. While our eyes perceive these paintings as photography, conceptually we know they are individual interpretations. Ratnadeep has rejected mechanical processes, preferring to explore the visual effects of mechanical technology by hand. Ratnadeep’s paintings have usually used techniques which are both time-consuming and physically demanding. Buried within this elaborate surface sometimes are sheets of manipulated expressive color drips transparent enough and mark making, bringing out the rawness of improvisation. His work refers directly to the enigma of metamorphosis and his imagery whispers to the subconscious coaxing it to the surface. Making us aware of Ratnadeep’s beliefs, the richness of his symbolism but yet mysterious eluding the logically understandable things and the depth of his ambitions - which combine to make new resonances.¹

Quotes

"My process of working is based on elective creative process. To built my art out of public spheres has been focal point of my work. Memoirs of the unreal city is about the city which is fast growing and overpowering forms catalyst in my work. The images of teeming vastness of the city at one point are crude and banal destined to fade and themselves destined to fade and disintegrate in to obscurity..."- "Ratnadeep Gopal Adivrekar"

Work

Ratnadeep’s characters include bundles of people, masses gathered, loads of them stacked together, though in great number they do not have any weight at the same time the peculiar and ‘unbearable lightness’ of their being sometimes makes you to stop over and look back. Time and space walk together as if one dimension, and therefore they look alike from macro level, even if the viewer is part of action. Time gets transfixed, still, and opaque like a dense solid mass.. .

¹ "From catalogue "Refraction of Ideas 2007"

External links

* [http://www.ratnadeepadi.com to see more works by Ratnadeep Gopal Adivrekar]
* [http://www.saffronart.com/artistdetails.asp?sourceid=1347 Detailed Profile of Ratnadeep]
* [http://www.theartstrust.com/artistexhibhition.aspx?artistid=188&name=Ratnadeep%20Gopal%20Adivrekar Images of work at The Arts Trust]