{"CurrentProductId":"2246","LastArtProId":"5901","artworks":[{"medium":"Ink on paper","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/s/u/surendrannair037.jpg","title":"Untitled","year":null},{"medium":"Mixed media on paper","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/s/u/surendrannair07.jpg","title":"Still Life - Objects","year":1986},{"medium":"Etching and aquatint on paper","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/s/u/surendrannair069.jpg","title":"Pradeep","year":1985},{"medium":"Charcoal on handmade paper","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/s/u/surendrannair030.jpg","title":"Untitled","year":1976},{"medium":"Oil on oil paper","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/s/u/surendrannair028.jpg","title":"Untitled","year":1978},{"medium":"Woodcut on paper","painting":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/s/u/surendrannair008.jpg","title":"Untitled","year":1986}],"bio":"Born in Onkkoor, Kerala, Nair graduated in painting from College of Fine Arts, Trivandrum, in 1982, and studied printmaking from M. S. University, Baroda, in 1986. In the 1990s, he produced a large body of oil paintings he termed \u2018corollary mythologies\u2019 which led to a series of hand-coloured etchings titled The Labyrinth of Eternal Delight. These works are elaborate pictorial fictions composed of elements drawn from Greek mythology and Indian iconography. Nair reinvents mythological allegories as contemporary tales, giving some of them creative and extended titles, and creates two parallel narratives\u2014visual and verbal/textual.\nIn 2000, Nair\u2019s work, An Actor Rehearsing the Interior Monologue of Icarus, depicting a naked Icarus placed on top of an Ashoka Pillar, was to be exhibited at National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, but courted controversy when it was subsequently rejected on grounds of being irreverent toward a national symbol, a rejection Nair contested as an artist with a right to respond to his environment with freedom.\nIn 2021, he was part of the exhibition, \u2018Narrating from the Museum Archives and Collection: 10 years of KNMA\u2019 to celebrate a decade of Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi, that turned ten in 2020.  Nair\u2019s works are in several public and private collections in India and abroad. He lives and works in Baroda.","image":"https://d197irk3q85upd.cloudfront.net/catalog/product/cache/95dbdf78ad5a0d4b547132f80fbac8f3/s/u/surendran_nair.jpg","intro":"Surendran Nair began his art practice with strongly realist pen and ink drawings, etchings and lithographs, and commemorated people from his immediate surroundings or literary heroes in his portraiture.","name":"Surendran Nair","profile":"https://dagworld.com/surendrannair.html","year":"b - 1956"}