Raqib Shaw
All works in the collection (1)
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Title: The Pragmatic Pessimist
Year: 2024
Medium: Tapestry
Dimensions: 261 x 430 cm (102 3/4 x 169 1/4 in.)
Born in Kolkata, India in 1974. Shaw completed a master's degree at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London in 2002. As in cloisonné, he draws raised outlines in gold acrylic paint and pours industrial enamel paint into them to make paintings. He adds texture by scratching the fields of enamel color with porcupine quills, and sets small jewels and glass beads into the surface. Referencing Indian miniatures and the Northern Renaissance, he paints intricate, strongly narrative pictures, creating fantastical landscapes in which the paradisiacal and the apocalyptic coexist.
