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Aicon Gallery is proud to present Those that Blossom, and the Blossomless, an exhibition of new work by Nitin Mukul. In this body of work, Mukul utilizes a variety of media - painting, photography, and video - to create works that reference images from the natural world, and the man-made. Representational images are flattened and layered into a complex, abstract grounds; while fluid paintings move beyond abstraction, seeming to replicate processes either primordial or chemical. Mukul’s videos are made by applying paint in layers of ice, and recording the melting and transformation that ensues. The process is entropic, out of the artist’s direct control, and exists in a space between the analog and the digital. The resulting images appear at times cosmic in scope. Altogether, these pieces elegantly question the distinctions between figuration and abstraction, between the natural and the manmade, between generation and destruction.

CHANDELIER 2
oil, acrylic and tea stain on canvas
72" x 48"
2016
STAND YOUR GROUND
Oil and acrylic on canvas
48" X 36"
2016
CRATER, view full video here
video, approx. 20 minutes, edition of 5 custom packaged digital masters
variable projection
2013
CRATER TRIPTYCH
C-print on Kodak metallic paper
2014
CRATER 2
C-print on Kodak metallic paper
30" x 20"
2014
CRATER 1
C-print on Kodak metallic paper
30" x 20"
2016
Aicon Gallery, Art Basel, Miami, Satellite Art Fair, Contemporary Art, Nitin Mukul, New York City, Indian Art, South Asian Art, Video Art and Painting
Oil, acrylic and tea stain on canvas
48" X 36"
2016
CHANDELIER 3
Oil, acrylic and tea stain on canvas
60" X 40"
2014