Ravikumar Kashi

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ART . RedBox Studio .cn – Do a Book: Group exhibition and installation at White Space, Beijing

[...] 陳龍斌 Chen Longbin, Ain Cocke, 郭鸿蔚 Guo Hongwei, 洪浩 Hong Hao, 黄敏  Huang Min, Ravikumar Kashi, 孔国桥 Kong Guoqiao, 梁志和 Leung Chiwo, 刘任Liu Ren, 马军 Ma Jun, 掉对 Out, 庆庆 [...]

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Ravikumar Kashi was born in Bangalore in 1968. He completed his BFA in Painting from the College of Fine Arts, Bangalore in 1988, received an MFA in Printmaking from Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University of Baroda in 1990 and MA in English, from Mysore University in 1995. In 2001 he studied handmade papermaking at the Glasgow School of Art, UK, and in 2009 learned Hanji— traditional Korean paper making at Jang Ji Bang, Korea. Since 1991 he has had solo shows in India, China and the UK and exhibited in numerous museum exhibitions in India, the US, Canada, Mexico, Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan and Burma. He has participated in the 10th Triennale of India in New Delhi and 11th Asian Art Biennale, Dhaka, Bangladesh; Yokohama International Triennale of Contemporary Art, Japan; and the Arad Biennale, Romania. In 2001 he was awarded the National Award in India and has received the Karnataka Lalit Kala Akademi award three times. He also writes on art in Kannada and English published in various magazines and newspapers.

Too Late (2008)太迟
Cast cotton rag pulp, ink and photocopy transfer
28 x 35.5 cm / 11 x 14 in
Unique

Too Late is part of a series of diaristic musings developed around a word, expression or theme moulded into the surface of a cast cotton rag book form. In this work, a dog is told to jump through a ring of fire, a “yes” was mistaken as a “no”, and hand gestures are intended to signal different erotic positions. Emboldened by the words “Too Late”, the artist reveals a sense of confusion with communication and language. Text often appears in both English and Kannada, his mother tongue, as he transforms phrases, multimedia images and photographs of the everyday into personal interpretations of his stream of consciousness. As characteristic of his art works, Kashi is deeply inspired by Buddhist meditation, which emphasizes predetermined flow and acceptance, as well as by the Surrealists practice of free-flow thinking in artistic creation.

Artist Statement: Apart from unravelling the hidden mechanics of my thoughts, these books are about life around me (’me’ included as one of the characters). Our day today travails, desire, greed, sorrow, happiness and an endless striving to survive, succeed and make sense of this world and needless to say my views on these.