About Chintan Upadhyay - Chintan is known for creating provocative and incisive works that critique society in a decidedly tongue-in-cheek fashion. His signature leitmotif – babies (Chintus/Smart Alecs/Designer Babies) – functions both as a symbol and surface on which meaning is created following their idiosyncratic requirements. In their homogeneity and vaguely disturbing artificiality, they highlight the rampant commercialism we see around us. Often overtly sexual Shekhawat Miniatures appear on the body of the work, suggestive of the contradictions within the artist’s own mind and practice.
In this manner, his paintings and fiberglass sculptures represent cultural fusion and the metamorphosis of classicism into the contemporary. In their assorted irreverent poses and gestures, they interrogate manipulated realities and the politics of identity with impish anger hidden beneath a cute exterior. In addressing serious issues of genetic manipulation and mutation, Chintan Upadhyay problematizes not only identity, consumerism, and a cultural formation but the very nature of life, birth...
