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Details
- Place where the work was made
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India
- Cultural origin
- Baroda school
- Period
- Contemporary circa 1945 - onwards → India
- Date
- 1992
- Media category
- Drawing
- Materials used
- charcoal on paper
- Dimensions
- 46.0 x 42.0 cm
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1994
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 359.1994
- Copyright
- © NN Rimzon
- Artist information
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N.N. Rimzon
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About
N.N Rimzon studied at the college of Fine Arts, Trivandrum from 1975 and in 1984 completed a Masters in Fine Arts (sculpture) at the University of Baroda. His work approaches the metaphysical subjects of birth, life and death with a rich vocabulary of symbols and metaphors. Free from religious iconography or undertones his work exhibits a distinctly personal response to questions on the meaning of life. In this drawing the charcoal is applied in a very deliberate yet liberal manner that expresses a certain immediacy and the artist’s sense of urgency to produce in light of, or perhaps despite death’s imminence. N.N. Rimzon says; 'There is of course, the will. The will to integrate with the world, the will to change the world, to invent a new culture, a new society, to perhaps give new meaning to life. But the paradox is that the will controls neither death nor dying. And, after all, a work of art is all about death and life.'1
1. N.N. Rimzon, The Artist as Exile, Art Heritage 10, 1990-91, pp. 21-22.
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Places
Where the work was made
India
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
India Songs, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 01 Apr 1993–09 May 1993
India Songs, Wollongong Art Gallery, Wollongong, 15 May 1993–12 Jun 1993
India Songs, Orange Regional Gallery, Orange, 25 Jun 1993–31 Jul 1993
India Songs, Canberra School of Art Gallery, Canberra, 05 Aug 1993–04 Sep 1993
India Songs, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Campbelltown, 17 Sep 1993–24 Oct 1993
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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Victoria Lynn, India Songs: multiple streams in contemporary Indian art, Sydney, 1993, 22 (illus.), 53. cat.no. 18
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