Size - 36 x 24 inches on archival paper This particular series was driven by the idea of bringing different eras and ideas together. Miniature art was framed in a minimalist framework. It’s the mixed visual language one finds here is, when modernism is imbibed into already rich visual culture. I am also interested in the idea of urban culture as,displaced rural ideas mixed with old feudal ones, creating a new visual language. The Chess Set was one such exploration.
Country of Origin - India
ABOUT Studio SMU
Smruthi Gargi Eswar  is a graphic artist based out of Bangalore and Delhi. She studied at the Baroda Faculty of Fine Arts and at Chitrakala Parishad briefly. Her art studies though,
had started earlier, while she was still a student at The Valley School KFI. Â She runs her own studio (Studio Smu), with shows travelling to Budapest, New York, Cochin, Delhi and Mumbai from her studio in Bangalore. Â She is also a board member of Art in Social Structures, an international
NGO run and funded by artists that believes that art is the building block of all social structures.
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