Artist Post #8: Spring Semester
March 28, 2011
Kiran Kumar
Bio: Kumar is a Mumbai-based Kashmiri Indian actor. He has worked in many Hindi and Gujarati films. He has been the main hero in most of the Gujarati movies. Kumar starred in Do Boond Pani in 1971, and went on to play the villain in several films.
Relation: Kiran Kumar is actually an actor who does fine art photography on the side. What I am really drawn to about his work is the times when he merges images and text. He uses local theater performances or debuts of plays as inspiration for art pieces he creates and then uses as promotional material as well. I like that he is very much in the commercial world, in his career and his hobbies, and he uses a combination of commercial occupations, advertising, photography and text to create visual pieces that rival graphic design. I relate to the way his text works overtop of imagery.
Quotes:
"I always want to play shades of humanity and not larger than life characters."
Source for both: http://www.indiantelevision.com/interviews/kirank.htm
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