Cosmic Trajectories

Artist: N.N. Rimzon

October 12, 2007 | 6.30 pm
Little Theatre, National Centre for the Performing Arts, Mumbai

N.N. Rimzon, one of India’s prominent sculptors, who has been represented by galleries worldwide, articulates the language of a humanist, referencing from Indian classical art and archetypal imagery while representing a plethora of concerns and issues of contemporary society. The leftist and radical background in Kerala and the socio-political strife at the time of the Emergency shaped his sensibilities along with an awareness of disrupted traditional inheritance locally with its diverse ramifications, coupled with close readings of international art movements. Post-modernist in approach, his work also brings in the particularities of the lived realities in the Indian context.

N.N. Rimzon received degrees in sculpture from the College of Fine Arts, Trivandrum and M. S. University, Baroda respectively, and pursued further studies on an Inlaks scholarship at the Royal College of Art, London. He is currently the Principal at the Raja Ravi Varma College of Fine Arts in Mavelikara, Kerala. The artist works on both paper and sculpture, each independent artistic investigations while expressing similar concerns.

In this presentation, Rimzon will chart out his conceptual and artistic trajectories, from the late seventies to the present, with a special focus on his latest solo show, ‘Liminal Embodiments’ presented by Bodhi Art, in New York in September 2007.