C K Rajan
° 1960
Born in Kerala (IN), lives in Hyderabad (IN).
C K Rajan is a member of the Radical Group in the 1980s, a group that takes form at the University of Baroda, from where it fights both the status quo within the Indian art world and the Indian political system.
Rajan is originally trained as a painter. After the group's disintegration in the late 1980s, he devotes himself both to sculptural works, inspired by pop art, and to a comprehensive series of collages. Rajan continues his political concerns in these works, but in a way that smartly manages to circumvent an explicit didactic approach.
Globalisation had a big impact on India and brought political and economic changes. Rajan tries to find visual equivalents for the social unrest that makes itself felt, but is disguised as the creation of a 'new middle class'. He balances between critical and socially engaged assembly and associations with surrealism.
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Works
>Kerala Radicals, C K Rajan, Untitled, 1992-1996.Collage, collage, paper, 25 x (210 x 290 mm).
Exhibitions & Ensembles
> Exhibition: EURASIA − A Landscape of Mutability. 08 October 2021 - 23 January 2022.
> Exhibition: EXTRA MUROS: Tracés. Similarities and dissonants. 01 March 2012 - 31 March 2012.
> Exhibition: Meeting Points 7 – Ten Thousand Wiles and a Hundred Thousand Tricks. 25 October 2013 - 16 February 2014.
> Exhibition: M HKA in het Paleis op de Meir. .
> Exhibition: Museum E!: The residents' choice. 23 April 2017 - 22 October 2017.
> Exhibition: SANTHAL FAMILY – Positions Around an Indian Sculpture. 01 February 2008 - 05 May 2008.
> Exhibition: The collection XXVII – East of 4°24'. 03 March 2011 - 21 August 2011.
> Ensemble: Collectie Vlaamse Gemeenschap.
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> Ensemble: M HKA_DEFAULT_WORKS.
> Ensemble: NUCLEUS.
> Ensemble: SANTHAL FAMILY.
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> Ensemble: The Kerala Radicals.