JAAGO GRAHAK JAAGO

In his sculpture, Shitanshu Maurya asks his audience to “ignore unfinished surfaces and textures in form and thought”. Through his monolithic work, Shitanshu draws attention to historical monuments, particularly in India, that are taken for granted and neglected. For him these monuments not only record the past and its glory but also contain messages for the future. He has therefore chosen to title his work Jaago Grahak Jaago (Wake Up Consumer) as he believes “we are all customers, admirers and lovers of history”. His large-scale work references abandoned, decaying and disintegrating monuments, whose plight, he believes, we are consciously or unconsciously responsible for. He invites viewers to touch, feel and scribble on this work as they would on an abandoned monument.

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SHITANSHU MAURYA graduated with a BFA and MFA in Ceramics from the College of Arts and Crafts, Lucknow University. He has received several awards such as the National Academy Award, a research grant from Lalit Kala Akademi and Best Exhibit Award from AIFACS. Shitanshu also received the Young Artist Scholarship from the Ministry of Culture. He has been invited to several artist residencies such as the Indo-Korean residency in Chennai, Nomadic India residency at the Clayarch Museum, South Korea and a residency at the Rashtrapati Bhawan, New Delhi. He has participated in several solo and group shows in India, Korea, Latvia and China.

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