Ashutosh Bhardwaj

Born in 31 December 1981. 2002 B.F.A. Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S.U., Baroda, 2004 M.F.A. Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S.U., Baroda, Junior Research fellowship, 2005.

National scholarship 2003-05. Workshops for Per 04, residency at Khoj, Delhi,2004 Nasreen Mahamadi award and scholarship , 2004 Workshop for site specific work at Samod, 2005, Painting workshop at Pachmati, 2005, Merit scholarship 2003-04, 2002-03, 2001-02,   2000-01, 1999-2000, 1998-1999, M.S.U.  Baroda.

In-Cinque group show at Palette Art Gallery, Delhi, 2005. Open Studio Day, (Installation: Matrix-We Love America, America loves us) Khoj, Delhi, 2004. 13 Artists show, Sarjan Art Gallery, Baroda, 2004. PICASSO AND POLLOCK (Installation), Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S.U. Baroda 2004. Group show at Ravindra Bahvan, Lalit Kala, Delhi, 2004 Camlin watercolour workshop and show, Faculty of Fine Arts, Baroda, 2000.

Though my works always provide equivocal meanings and interpretations, but they defiantly respond to the contemporary Cosmo and metro surroundings around us.

The cliched images projected to us through various forms of media, which serves as the imagolouge of the global socio-politics comes first to me as metaphors .While juggling with these media, I always try to be conscious of keeping their cliched ness alive. By doing so there is a continuous attempt to use the meticulous strategies of these imagolouges as a tool, which can decode their own rationally crafted meanings, that automatically questions their unreal superficial existence around us. In this whole process I always prefer to keep a distance from the images and try to keep their glass alive without any personal and real life touches, which help me to be at a place form where I can point up the power and violence in the contemporary life. My sheer interest in precise, sharp, meticulous geometry and various O.P. or other design references help me to create suitable unreal abstract spaces where these cliched images can interact. In this interaction images from history (art monuments and artifacts) also get indulged, the history which is with us as an accepted legacy.

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