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Artist Name |
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Gopakumar R
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Profile Name
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GopakumarR1658
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Gender
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Male |
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Date of Birth
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15/12/1972 |
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Association With Art Galleries
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Association With ArtGalleries
(Comma Seperated)
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• "Freedom of Existence" Digital Print on Canvas Limited Edition (1/7) Archives Immagine & Poesia, Seat, Torino, Italy.
• "Cognition-Libido" Digital Print on Canvas Limited Edition (1/7) Kinsey Institute Art Gallery, Indiana University, USA, Curator: Catherine Johnson-Roehr
• Absence of freedom Digital print to Yoko Ono's Wish Tree at the Museum of Modern Art, New York
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Educational Qualifications |
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• 1990-1995 5 year National Diploma in Fine Arts (Painting) from Raja Ravi Varma College of Fine Arts, Mavelikara, Kerala, India.
• 2008-2009 Diploma in History of Art from The London Art College, Milnthorpe, UK
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Personal Statement
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The freedom of expression is the importance of the Contemporary Art. In the present scenario, many of the artists take “Self Identity” as their subjects; He was also not spared from this.
" I am not a traditionalist, questioning the social condition of the society. To achieve this, I use Visual arts but not bothered of Forms, Color, Medium etc."
The main elements of painting, forms and colors deployed with juxtaposition. We can see the influence of metaphysics, cognitive science, anthropology and psychology in his works, also contemporary culture, globalization, environmentalism, and consumerism too.
He was also influenced by the Conceptual art, Abstract art, Indian Tantrik Art and African Textile design. We can feel the transparent color pattern overlapped many places and it forms a rhythm and flow. Abstraction and realism are merged in these works.
One of the importances’ you can see in his work is that there is no barrier of time, place, space, religion, sex etc, it is universal.
"I like layers, the sand layers of the desert that form after the soft wind, the mud layers of the ponds after the reduction of the water, same way the pieces of the onion and meat etc. are all influenced my painting patterns. These layers are the basic concepts of the universe."
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Collections
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• "Freedom of Existence" Digital Print on Canvas Limited Edition (1/7) Archives Immagine & Poesia, Seat, Torino, Italy.
• "Cognition-Libido" Digital Print on Canvas Limited Edition (1/7) Kinsey Institute Art Gallery, Indiana University, USA, Curator: Catherine Johnson-Roehr
• Absence of freedom Digital print to Yoko Ono's Wish Tree at the Museum of Modern Art, New York
• Air India – Manama, Bahrain
• Ravi Varma College of Fine Arts, Kerala, India
• Jana Jagrathi, Kerala, India
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Personal Interests
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Hobbies |
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Reading, Music
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Artists |
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Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Pablo Picasso, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Marcel Duchamp, Max Beckmann, Joseph Beuys, Alexander Calder, Piet Mondrian, Frida Kahlo, Wassily Kandinsky, Henri Matisse, Edvard Munch. Robert Rauschenberg, Mark Rothko, Frank Stella, Andy Warhol, Louise Bourgeois, Judy Chicago, Damien Hirst, Anish Kapoor, Jeff Koons, Barbara Kruger, Joseph Kosuth, Bruce Nauman, Kiki Smith, Deborah Butterfield, Cai Guo-Qiang, Hokusai, S.H Raza, J Swaminathan, N.N. Rimzon, Bharti Kher
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Music |
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World Classical Music, Ghazals, Hindustani, Carnatic, Baul
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Books |
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History of Modern Art : Painting, Sculpture, Architecture & Photography
Aesthetics: Lectures on Fine Art Volume I (Aesthetics) Aesthetics: Lectures on Fine Art Volume I (Aesthetics)
Abstract Painting: Concepts and Techniques
Vicky Perry (Author)
Art: Context And Criticism Art: Context And Criticism
John D Kissick (Author)
Art: 21 - PBS - Art in the 21st Century.
Themes of Contemporary Art: Visual Art after 1980 Themes of Contemporary Art: Visual Art after 1980
Why Is That Art?: Aesthetics and Criticism of Contemporary Art
Art Today-Phaidon
Vitamin P: New Perspectives in Painting
Vitamin D: New Perspectives in Drawing
Contemporary Art in India by Pran Nath Mago
Indian Art (World of Art)
Roy C. Craven
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India, Bahrain
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Biography Published:
Books:
Artist Exposed - R.Gopakumar by Mr PK(Pradeep Kr Maheshwari) 2010
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1450559077/ref=cm_sw_su_dp
ISBN-13: 978-1450559072
The ABC of ARTnership, Vol 2: Showcasing artists and their creativity by Mr PK(Pradeep Kr Maheshwari) 2009
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1442193093/ref=cm_sw_su_dp
ISBN-13: 978-1442193093
NeoPopRealism Starz: 21st Century ART' Vol 1 by Nadia Russ - 2009
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1441570853/ref=cm_sw_su_dp
ISBN-13: 978-1441570857
NeoPopRealism Starz: 21st Century ART' Vol 2 by Nadia Russ - 2010
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1450049958/ref=cm_sw_su_dp
ISBN-13: 978-1450049955
International Contemporary Artists
by Olga Antoniadou and Eve Lemonidou 2010
ISBN-13: 978-9609322980
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/9609322980/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_jdp_jcaYmb19RDPV9
MOCA: Museum of Computer Art
Second Anniversary Exhibit 2010, Brooklyn, New York
http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/1587141
By Donarcher
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Group Shows |
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* 2011 "Freedom of Existence" Digital Print participating in an Exhibition on the 150th Anniversary of Italian Unification - Homage to Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Arte Città Amica,Torino , Italy,Curated by: Lidia Chiarelli, Raffaella Spada.
• 2011 Galleria d'Arte Contemporanea Grafica Manzoni, Torino, Italy.
• 2010 “Nature & Nurture”, The Kinsey Institute Art Gallery, USA, as part of the fall exhibition, 2010, Curator: Catherine Johnson-Roehr
• 2010 2nd Anniversary Exhibit and Contest, MOCA: Museum of Computer Art, Brooklyn NY, USA, Jurors: Don Archer and Bob Dodson
• 2009 Art Student Exhibition, ISE Cultural Foundation NY, USA, Jurors: Jeremy Adams: Executive Director, Cue Art Foundation, Jonathan Goodman: Art Critic, Brett Littman: Executive Director, The Drawing Center, David McFadden: Chief Curator, Museum of Arts and Design, Lee Tribe: Artist
• 2009 2nd NeoPopRealism Starz INTERNATIONAL Art Competition NY (USA), Juror Nadia Russ
• 2003 – At Present Gopakumar Online Art Gallery
• 2000 Bahrain Museum, Manama, Bahrain
• 1996 Kadappakkada Sports Club, Kerala, India
• 1996 Kerala Lelithakala Academy, Kerala, India
• 1992 Bishop Moore College, Kerala, India
• 1991 - 1995 Ravi Varma College of Fine Arts, Kerala, India
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Solo Shows |
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Art Camps |
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• 1995 Stone Carving Workshop (Conducted by Hiroshi Mikami from Japan), Kerala, India
• 1993 Jana Jagrathi, Kerala, India
• 1989 Chitra Silpakala Camp, Kerala, India
• 1988 Nehru Yuva Kendra, Kerala, India
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Awards And Recognization |
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• 2010 Appointed as Representative of IMMAGINE&POESIA for Bahrain/India. (IMMAGINE&POESIA is an international artistic literary movement founded at Alfa Teatro,
Torino, Italy in 2007, with the patronage of Aeronwy Thomas, Dylan Thomas's daughter.)
• 2009 1st Place Winner - 2nd NeoPopRealism Starz INTERNATIONAL Art Competition NY (USA), Curator Nadia Russ
• 1999 Air India Painting Award, Bahrain
• 1992 Scholarship for best Art Student from Kerala Lalitha Kala Academy, Kerala, India
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Disciplines
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Digital Drawing Mixed media Painting
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Artflute Review
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