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Alwar Balasubramaniam
Indian artist (born 1971) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Alwar Balasubramaniam (Tamil: ஆழ்வார் பாலசுப்ரமணியம், Hindi: अलवर बालासुब्रमण्यम, born 1971), known professionally as Bala, is an Indian sculptor and artist.[1][2]
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Biography
Alwar Balasubramaniam was born in 1971, in Tamil Nadu. In 1995, Bala graduated from Government College of Fine Arts with a specialism in printmaking.[3] Bala continued his studies at the Edinburgh Printmakers and the University of Applied Arts Vienna.[3]
From 1998 – 2015 Bala lived and worked in Bengaluru, Karnataka.[3] As of 2015, Bala lives and works in his ancestral village outside of Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu.[3][4]
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Career
Bala is known for embedding sculptures in walls. [5] Bala's work centers on the human body and the bodies interaction with the material environment and intangible elements such as light, air, and shadow.[6]
In 1998, Bala was an artist-in-residence at the then MacDowell Colony, and worked in the Putnam graphics studio.[7][8]
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