Jagannath being bought out of the Temple for Ratha Yatra

ABOUT ARTIST

Born in 1961 at Vandrum, Andhra Pradesh, Poosapati Parameshwar Raju spent his childhood in different Indian cities where his father, an army officer, used to get posted. A meritorious student, he received a BFA and an MFA in Applied Art from the Government School of Art and Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University respectively, both in Aurangabad, and worked in the advertising industry for a while before taking to practicing art full-time. Based on his study and research of Indian iconography and spiritual and ceremonial culture, the work in minimal aesthetics appears in calligraphic series and motifs. Themed around the sacred and the meditative, his calligraphic notations and iconic graphics traverse both the traditional and contemporary terrains. Executed with sophistication, using nibs and pens of different sizes, his simple forms in minimal color bring alive the epics and narratives associated with different faiths including Buddhism, Sikhism, Judaism, Islam, Zoroastrianism, Christianity as well as numerical designs and yantras.