I have ignored K K Raghava in the past. The reason being that I couldn't relate to his art or reconcile the work he was churning out with his page 3 personality . I didn't believe people when they told me he was talented , until now. His latest body of works , Drawn & Quartered made an appearance at Art Musings Gallery , Mumbai earlier on this month. He tackles the antithesis of beauty , drawing heavily from the kings of grotesque - Freud and Bacon. While the images are almost flat and illustration like in execution, they are much more perceptive and coherent than the cloudy watercolour works of his past. This might have something to do with Raghava returning to his cartoonist roots , a skill that first pushed him under the spotlight at age 17.
K K Raghava is 27 and works/lives in Bangalore and Boston. More here.
K K Raghava is 27 and works/lives in Bangalore and Boston. More here.
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