Ratnadeep Adivrekar

Trivia

• 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.
• His 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.
• 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 paintings have usually used techniques which are both time-consuming and physically demanding.
• The parts of painting have naturalist approximate based on photographic documentations.
• 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.
• Has been awarded The Harmony Emerging Artist Award. Ratnadeep lives and works in Mumbai, India.
• His art has been awarded The Governors Prize, The State Art Award and National Scholarship by Lalit Kala Akademi, N. Delhi.
• Has had several important solo exhibitions Like "Memoirs of the Unreal city", "Refraction of Ideas", and has participated in many important group exhibitions 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.
• Received his BFA in painting with first class from the Sir J. J. School of Art in Mumbai.

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.