Sreshta Premnath: Taming the Lion | The Matter Within: New Contemporary Art of India
Channel: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Date: 2011-10-12

Artist Sreshta Premnath muses on American pop culture as internalized by a child in India. For "The Matter Within", he revisits the iconic image of the MGM lion after the bankruptcy of the legendary Hollywood studio.

About Sreshta Premnath:
Born in Bangalore, India, and currently based in New York, Sreshta Rit Premnath is an interdisciplinary artist, as well as the founder and editor of Shifter magazine. Premnath completed his BFA at The Cleveland Institute of Art in 2003, his MFA at Bard College in 2006, and attended the Whitney Independent Study Program in 2008. Premnath received the Art Matters Foundation Grant, 2011; the Civetella Raniere Foundation Fellowship, 2011; and The Third Agnes Gund Award, The Cleveland Institute of Art, 2003. Premnath's work has been presented in solo exhibitions, including Storeys End, Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin, 2011; Rhizome, Wave Hill, New York, 2011; Leo (procedures in search of an original index), Gallery SKE, Bangalore, 2010; Zero Knot, Art Statements, Art|41|Basel, 2010; and Black Box, Gallery SKE, Bangalore, 2008; as well as numerous group exhibitions, including Before and After, Galerie Balice Hertling, Paris, 2010; Spectral Evidence, 1 A Space, Hong Kong, 2010; Other than Beauty, Friedman Benda Gallery, New York, 2010; A Perfect Human, Dorsch Gallery, Miami, 2009; and Moment as Monument, Thomas Erben Gallery, New York, 2009. Premnath has also curated On Certainty, Bose Pacia, New York, 2009, and the ongoing Project for an Archive of the Future Anterior, 2010. http://circumscript.net/

About The Matter Within: New Contemporary Art of India:
As contemporary art becomes more widely recognized within India, there has also been a growing awareness of its international development and impact. YBCA is pleased to present The Matter Within: New Contemporary Art of India, an exhibition of sculpture, photography and video by artists of India living inside the country as well as in the diaspora. Inspired by material culture, literature, spirituality, and social and political aspects of the history of the South Asian region, the exhibition is organized around three thematic threads that resonate from contemporary India—embodiment, the politics of communicative bodies and the imaginary. Of particular interest are the artistic practices that either incorporate these concepts or operate within a gap between these existing thematic categories. Whereas sculpture and painting have a long history within both sacred and secular traditions of Indian art, in recent years photography and video have emerged as significant media as well.

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