MKF Museum of Art to host solo show by Shoeb Dastagir

A superb bluish food glides successful a spot of orangish pumpkins, different lies inactive among lilac orchids hoping his camouflage allows him to blend in. These are a fewer finned beauties creator Shoeb Dastagir has depicted successful his solo amusement A Dreamer’s World.

“I find food rather calming and I tin walk hours looking astatine them; that is wherefore I began capturing them successful my paintings,” says Shoeb, adding helium spends a batch of clip astatine the aquarium successful Mysore Zoo. “I bask watching videos of aquatic beingness connected my phone, too.”

He reels disconnected their names — bumblebee goby, oscars and arowanas, tiger fish, a Brunei quality and a shark — and however they are each a portion of this show. “I americium a Piscean, truthful nary substance however hard beingness gets, food are a calming refuge for me,” says the artist. “Fish are ever calm, going astir their lives contempt the confines of their surroundings.”

He talks astir his emotion for “sunny colours specified arsenic tangerine orange, avocado green, icy bluish and buttery yellows”. All these hues and much are to beryllium recovered successful his works that exude a interaction of whimsy and play retired successful a fantastical onshore wherever an astronaut steps astir teacups, food nestle betwixt bluish pea and pearls, and an old-model tv sits atop a bouquet of yellowish roses.

Though Shoeb draws his inspiration from the earthy world, a batch of his creation is birthed successful his vivid imaginativeness that substance his compositions of poetry, prose and songs arsenic well. According to his parent Ayesha Dastagir, each these originative interests pb Shoeb to nutrient bigger and elaborate paintings. “One tin spot a batch of mystical characters isolated from the animals and fish, of course. I judge it is his subconscious, sensitivity and imaginary phantasy satellite that harvester to nutrient thing caller and different.”

Most of the works successful A Dreamer’s World person been executed utilizing pastels and watercolours connected insubstantial implicit the the greater portion of a year. Though Shoeb utilized to overgarment with oils and canvas, this alteration successful mean came astir erstwhile helium moved from Bengaluru to Mysore, and moving connected insubstantial seemed a much viable enactment arsenic abstraction was a constraint astatine the caller place.

The artist, who signs his works arsenic Schoeb, his authoritative sanction which is often misspelt, is presently moving connected a bid of portraits. The upcoming / existent accumulation comprises 24 pieces connected show isolated from a fewer others which are a portion of the bid and are disposable for merchantability astatine the gallery.

A Dreamer’s satellite by Shoeb Dastagir volition beryllium connected show astatine MKF Museum of Art from November 8-19. Entry free, Mondays closed.