Yog Raj Chitrakar: Nikhil Chopra Seagull Books

Yog Raj Chitrakar: Nikhil Chopra Seagull BooksAbout the artist Born in Calcutta in 1974 and currently based in Goa, Nikhil Chopra is a performance artist who focuses on subjects of identity, autobiography, and politics of transformation. Deeply influenced by his Kashmiri identity, Chopra creates characters that are not fixed in time or space, not historically accurate, yet immensely real and endearing. As a performance artist, Chopra collapses the boundaries between theatre and several other

Drawing from his notebooks

we see a searing portrait of contemporary Indian urban middle class

unwittingly

” Kentridge reflects

Size: 14 in x 10 in

Terror will answer this question

Sterne and DeLillo—who have been important to him

especially at some prestigious galleries and museums like Chatterjee & Lal

it’s wooden-legged Victor Halfwit—collapsed

Lavishly illustrated with nearly 400 works of art and many hitherto unpublished photographs from personal archives

but no one noticed my blood stain

The authors also reflect the melancholy archetype of the Western hero (and his deconstruction) against the very different heroic ethos of the Japanese antipodes