Lot 59: ANANT JOSHI

ANANT JOSHI INDIAN B. 1969 ON THE OVERLAP 2008 acrylic on canvas 116.5 x 165.5cm / 45.87 x 65.16"

Some recent solo exhibitions
Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai 2007, 'Navel one and the many'
Talwar Gallery, New York 2006, 'LOCAL. Kiss me – kill me push me – pull me'

Some recent group exhibitions
Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna 2009, 'Under the Surface'
Mori Art Museum, Tokyo 2008, 'Chalo! India: A New Era of Indian Art'
DaimlerChrysler Contemporary, Berlin 2007, 'Private/Corporate IV'
De Vishal, Haarlem 2004, 'New fun palace'

Selected publications
Hans den Hartog Jager [et al.], Prix de Rome 2004 Drawing/Printed Art, Rotterdam: 010 Publishers 2004

Selected public and corporate collections
Achmea Kunstcollectie, Zeist, NL

donated by the artist
courtesy: Willem Baars Art Consultancy

Anant Joshi is a painter and installation artist whose simultaneously sinister and comical creations reflect a sensitivity to urban alienation and cultural displacement. In his installations, he uses beamed light to project a juxtaposition of strange, sculpted ceramic objects and dissected, dismembered toys onto the wall. In this way, the artist's fictive hybrid man-toy-animals are transformed back into silhouettes, a twodimensionality that simulates a traditional picture plane. Joshi also creates mini-dioramas using packing materials like crates and boxes. The light is thrown off these staged 'backdrops', casting shadows from which ideas for the paintings and drawings often arise. With studio practices and mediated imagery often acting as the initial trigger for concepts and forms, Joshi's painting and drawing practices are symbiotic with his installations projects.

Anant Joshi was resident artist at the Rijksakademie in 2002-2003.
He won the basic prize of the 2004 Prix de Rome (NL).