Vivan Sundaram

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Vivan Sundaram (* 1943 in Shimla ) is an Indian artist. He is a nephew of the famous artist Amrita Sher-Gil .

Life

Vivan Sundaram was born in Shimla in 1943. He studied painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda in Vadodara and completed postgraduate studies with RB Kitaj at the Slade School of Fine Art in London in the mid-1960s . During his studies in England and Germany, his working style and artistic way of seeing things were influenced by the Marxist ideas of the 1968 student movement. In 1970 he returned to India. In 1989 he was one of the co-founders of the organization SAHMAT ( Safdar Hashmi Memorial Trust), a cultural-political forum of artists and intellectuals against right-wing ideologies.

Vivan Sundaram is one of the most important contemporary Indian artists. He lives in Delhi with his wife, the art critic Geeta Kapur.

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Work by Vivan Sundaram in the background on the Kochi-Musris Binnale

During his early years as an artist, Sundaram created figurative paintings. From the mid-1980s he turned more and more to the art genres of mixed media and installation , because he wanted to overcome the limitations that a framed two-dimensional work of art imposes on the artist. He was one of the first Indian artists to create installations. Around 1990 he gave up painting completely and devoted himself to the artistic forms of expression installation, photography including photo montage and video art .

Sundaram's art predominantly addresses political and social issues. In his TRASH series, for example, he confronts the viewer with the topic of garbage. He often works at the interface between art and architecture, focusing increasingly on questions that arise from the urban development of our time.

A contrast and a complement to it is the artistic examination of his family history. The oil painting The Sher-Gil Family (1983-84) was one of the last works with which he said goodbye to painting. In the picture, his aunt Amrita Sher-Gil, his mother Indira, his grandmother Marie Antoinette and in the background his grandfather Umrao Singh are “assembled as a collage of fragments”. Re-take of 'Amrita' is a series of photo montages in which he used black and white family photos of his grandfather Umrao Singh. Sundaram digitized the old photographs and reassembled them to tell the family story anew.

Since the mid-1970s he has also been curator, editor and archivist on the history of the Sher-Gil family. This also includes the edition of Amrita Sher-Gil's letters.

In January 2010, the non-profit organization Asia Art Archive began digitizing the archive of Vivan Sundaram and his wife Geeta Kapur.

Web links

Note: Copyright must be observed for all external links with images of works of art by Vivan Sundaram.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Deepak Ananth: Amrita Sher-Gil. An Indian family of artists in the 20th century , Schirmer Mosel, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-8296-0269-3 , p. 158
  2. ↑ Jutta Ströter-Bender: Contemporary Art of the “ Third World ”. DuMont, Cologne 1991, ISBN 3-7701-2665-3 , p. 169.
  3. ↑ Chris Dercon , Heiko Sievers: Introduction , in: Deepak Ananth: Amrita Sher-Gil: an Indian family of artists in the 20th century , Schirmer Mosel, Munich 2006, p. 10
  4. ↑ a b c Beyond the Self . National Portrait Gallery, Canberra . Retrieved September 23, 2012.
  5. ↑ Deepak Ananth: Amrita Sher-Gil. An Indian family of artists in the 20th century , Schirmer Mosel, Munich 2006, p. 31
  6. ↑ Amrita Jhaveri: A Guide to 101 Modern & Contemporary Indian Artists . India Book House, Mumbai 2005, ISBN 81-7508-423-5 , p. 90
  7. ↑ Deepak Ananth: Amrita Sher-Gil. An Indian family of artists in the 20th century , Schirmer Mosel, Munich 2006, p. 31 and panel 42
  8. ↑ Amrita Jhaveri: A Guide to 101 Modern & Contemporary Indian Artists . India Book House, Mumbai 2005, p. 91
  9. ↑ Vivan Sundaram's Re-take of 'Amrita' (PDF; 300 kB) IIAS (International Institute for Asian Studies). Retrieved September 23, 2012. (English)
  10. ↑ A large number of these photomontages are shown in: Deepak Ananth: Amrita Sher-Gil. An Indian family of artists in the 20th century , Schirmer Mosel, Munich 2006.
  11. ↑ Amrita Sher-Gil (author), Vivan Sundaram (ed.): Amrita Sher-Gil: A self-portrait in letters and writings , Tulika Books, Delhi 2010, ISBN 978-81-89487-59-1 publisher's announcement (English)
  12. ↑ Another Life: The Digitized Personal Archive of Geeta Kapur and Vivan Sundaram . Asia Art Archive. Archived from the original on September 5, 2013. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved September 12, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.aaa.org.hk
personal data
SURNAME Sundaram, Vivan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Shimla