Monday, February 20, 2012
N S Harsha’s wide-ranging work includes detailed figurative painting and drawing, semi-abstract panels, sculptures and installations, site-specific projects and community-based collaborations.
Harsha embraces the modern Indian narrative enriched with popular art forms as a platform for a powerful social and political commentary. As the miniature painting format has regularly been used to highlight social and political inequities, Harsha’s reference to them represents an embrace of the tradition updated by his personal idiom to embody contemporary conditions. His large-scale and intricately detailed canvases depict a microcosm of Indian life. The multitude of figures are all animated in unison and focused on an incongruous or comically strange event. Or they are animated by some mutual curiosity. Harsha’s paintings wittily combine rites and rituals common to Indian life with images drawn from world news.
source: herning museum
iniva - nations 2009
