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Shan Re

India • 1960

Biography

Shan Re is a leading contemporary Indian artist and the master of abstraction with thought provoking mysterious layers and complex textures. Shan explores unknown and unseen dimensions invoking inexplicable emotions.

Shan's works are not premeditated. They are bold and spontaneous overflow of powerful thoughts. Having a highly creative mind, Shan has a lot of energy, both physical and psychological. Her creative energy is elusive and hard to describe. It's a tireless impulse to absorb and discover new things. It's a drive to create and break boundaries, bring joy and connect to the world.

Her captivating rich abstracts are effortless, meditative in nature.

Her canvas is the reflection of her life and philosophy. Her art is the essence of her experience, not a representation of it. Each of her paintings can be considered as a complete poem in itself and it appears to be a sudden capture of a fleeting moment.

Much like memories, each of her paintings is filled with layer upon layer of paint, building a rich history into each piece. The complex and mysterious layers and textures represent the intensity and depth of her emotions, stream of thoughts, feelings, memories, dreams evoking a sense of peace and delight. She works in many layers towards a balanced harmony.

Her abstract work is the essence of her journey both personal and artistic.

It is an album of memories, perceptions, pleasure and pain captured together from multiple dimensions. It is an interlocking of the various mediums she works with and an evolution of her timeless voyage as a true artist. Although the series reflects her personal philosophy of life, they also indicate the hidden secrets of life cycles, which make them universal in nature. Her art is mainly about repainting life in changing hues, and expressing multiple layers of life in metaphors. It is a silent soliloquy to recapture her subconscious and access higher dimensions of life.

Shan's artwork is characterized by an innovative and versatile use of colour and texture. She has a marvellous sense of composition and contrast and conveys an exceptional sense of balance and harmony. Spontaneity is a key factor that leads her creative vision.

Her narrative works have an immediate intellectual impact on viewers and stimulate an inner dialogue. These dimensions set her apart in the world of contemporary fine art.

Life is full of mysterious things; the way we think, the way we react, the way we see and perceive things, everything is just so amazing and yet not fully comprehensible at the same time. Shan's abstract art is the same. All her techniques are accidental. Shan has continuously evolved, experimented and explored all those techniques and mastered them over a period of time.

She uses texture to add depth, mystery and also balance to different areas of her artworks. Sometimes texture is used to give the illusion of depth and making it more complex. The bold and heavy texture is a symbol for resilience.

Colour is her vital force through which she creates her powerful narratives to communicate with her audiences.

Shan says, “Colour in my paintings is not just a visual sensation, it holds stories and talks to you on a deeper level. Colour evokes a psychic vibration in me and unlocks my creative flow. I focus on the process of creation and I never plan my work. It evolves through my intuition. Everything I create comes from a source beyond my conscious awareness. I always try to perceive life beyond logic and I feel that every creative act is a work of magic".

Shan is a deep thinker, enigmatic and her spiritual exploration reflects in her paintings.

Exhibitions:

Selected Group Shows:

2020 “If Walls Could Speak", ION Art Gallery, Singapore

2019

An Autism Art Fund Raising Gala, UB City, Bangalore
EUNOIA An Art Collective , At Taj West End
Women's Cultural Festival at BIC Bangalore
Drawing Show, Los Angeles, By Gallery
Drawing Show, New York Art Expo

Solo Exhibitions:

2019 Exhumed Memories, Art Houze Gallery, Bangalore

2018

Collaboration with Aranyani for New York Fashion Week, New York
Kala for Vidya , Rotary Club Annual Show, Taj West End, Bangalore
Heart to Art, Under the Raintree Media, Project EVE, Bangalore
Triptych, Group Show, Goa.

2017

Women's Art Festival, RavindraKalashetra, Bangalore
Kala for Vidya, Rotary Club Annual Show, Taj West End, Bangalore
Arts Village, Two Women show on the occasion of International women's day.

2016

Small and Beautiful, Art Houz, Bangalore
Heterogenous curated by Art Chutney, Taj West End, Bangalore
India Art and Gems Fair, Leela Palace Hotel, Bangalore
Kala for Vidya, Charity art show by Rotary club, Taj West End Hotel, Bangalore
Whitefield Art Collective, VR Bengaluru

2015

Anahata 1 – Art Mantram show at Navrathan, Bangalore
Anahata 2 – Art Mantram show at Navrathan, Bangalore
Portals of Perception, Taj West End Hotel, Bangalore
Reflections, Annual group show by Maadhyam at Amethyst, Chennai
LshVa inaugural art show, LshVa studio, Bangalore
Annual art show, Vinyasa Premier Art Gallery, Chennai

2014

Kala for Vidya, charity art show by Rotary club, TajWest End Hotel, Bangalore
Eclectic Exploration, Kalarasa Art House, Bangalore
Women Artists' Show, Chandigarh University, Chandigarh

2013

Award winners' show (won best landscape award), ICAC foundation, Mumbai
Open Studio Sale, Studio Revola, Bangalore

2012 Art show in support of Times Foundation, Galeriede'arts, Bangalore

2011

Art Bengaluru, UB City, Bangalore
Third Eye Art Gallery showcase at Caperberry, Bangalore

2010

Mont Blanc Art Showcase, ITC Royal Gardenia, Bangalore
“Friends of Renaissance Gallerie", Windsor Manor, Bangalore
Art Bengaluru, Galerie de'Arts, Bangalore

2009

Phantasmagoria, Midsummer Melange, LeelaPalace Hotel, Bangalore
Renaissance Gallerie's Annual Charity Show, Leela Palace Hotel, Bangalore
Gallery Exotica's Inaugural Show in support of Charity, Bangalore
Group show organized by C. Krishnaiah Chetty, Hotel Ashok, Bangalore

2008 Concern India Art Show, Bangalore

2007 Auction for Mallige Smile Foundation, Leela Palace, Bangalore

Selected Solo Shows:

2017 Window to Himalayas- Arts Village.

2016 Echoes & Whispers, Art Houz Gallery, Bangalore
2015

The Might of a Line; exhibition of free association drawings, Galerie de'Arts, Bangalore
SHE – International Women's day special – contemporary women's voices, Galerie de'Arts,

Bangalore

2014