Bari Kumar, who lives in Los Angeles, plunders icons from the worlds great storehouse of images. He appropriates medieval and Renaissance paintings, Tibetan thankhas, putto from churches, anatomical and iconography to make his images on display at Bose Pacia Gallery.
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It is difficult to talk about the life size paintings of Bari Kumar without sounding glib. At a glance, these fowering compositions, featuring severed body parts or amputated torsos, are overwhelming in their sheer size, forcing the viewers to position themselves in relation to the canvases.
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