Raqib Shaw: Paradise Lost opens this week at Pace Gallery

ARTDAILY

St. Sebastian of the Poppies, 2011-2012. Oil, acrylic, enamel, glitter and
rhinestones on Birch wood, 60" (152.4 cm), diameter© Raqib Shaw, courtesy Pace Gallery.

NEW YORK---Pace Gallery presents Paradise Lost, a three-venue exhibition of London-based Kashmiri artist Raqib Shaw. This is his first public presentation in New York since the 2008 exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Opulent scenes of beastly anthropomorphic figures amidst fantastical worlds of idyllic skies and classical ruins fill Shaw’s first exhibition at three venues at Pace. Included in the exhibition are ten paintings, three sculptures, and five drawings. Based on the theme of John Milton’s Paradise Lost, they are a fusion of Indian mythological figures, hybrids of man and beast, warring in landscapes inspired by quattrocento and Renaissance painting. [link]