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Raqib Shaw

Raqib Shaw (Born 1974) is active/lives in England, India.  Raqib Shaw is known for Visionary, violent image painting and sculpture.

Raqib Shaw''s gloriously opulent paintings suggest a fantastical world full of intricate detail, rich colour, and jewel-like surfaces, all masking the intense violent and sexual nature of its imagery. Inspired by Hieronymous Bosch''s fifteenth century visionary triptych, Shaw''s series of works similarly titled 'Garden of Earthly Delights' celebrate a society free of any moral restraint. Populated with a wealth of hybrid creatures, Shaw portrays a dizzying scene of erotic hedonism, both explosive and gruesome in its debauchery. Fusing an array of vibrantly painted flora and fauna, Shaw creates an eco-system inhabited by figures such as phallus-headed birds, bug-eyed butterfly catchers, reptilian warriors or monkeys holding parasols, anthropomorphic in their gestures and regalia.

Shaw's unique technique, where pools of enamel and metallic industrial paints are manipulated to the desired effect with a porcupine quill, meticulously enhances numerous details within the paintings, su   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1992 characters.]  Artist bio

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