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	'''N. N. Rimzon''' (born 1957) is an ~~[[India]]n~~ artist known primarily for his symbolic and enigmatic sculptures.<ref name="ReferenceA">{{cite book\|author=Amrita Jhaveri\|title=A Guide to 101 Modern and Contemporary Indian Artists\|publisher=India Book House\|year=2005\|isbn=81-7508-423-5}}</ref>		'''N. N. Rimzon''' (born 1957) is an Indian artist known primarily for his symbolic and enigmatic sculptures.<ref name="ReferenceA">{{cite book\|author=Amrita Jhaveri\|title=A Guide to 101 Modern and Contemporary Indian Artists\|publisher=India Book House\|year=2005\|isbn=81-7508-423-5}}</ref>
	His metal, fiberglass and stone sculptures have won him international acclaim, though in recent years his drawings have gained recognition.<ref name="ReferenceB">Chandran T. Payyanur, ''N.N. Rimzon'', Kashi Art Gallery, 2005</ref>		His metal, fiberglass and stone sculptures have won him international acclaim, though in recent years his drawings have gained recognition.<ref name="ReferenceB">Chandran T. Payyanur, ''N.N. Rimzon'', Kashi Art Gallery, 2005</ref>

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	His most recent show at Talwar Gallery in New Delhi, ''The Round Ocean and the Living Death'', is a continuation of his career's effort to unite the beautiful traditions of India to the complexities of its modern life through an artistic language. The sculpture the show is named after depicts mother-goddess figure seated at the center of a circle representing a quiet power. Rimzon's work requires no prerequisites for engagement, but rather speaks to an older and deeper level of humanity.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://talwargallery.com/rimzon-theroundocean-pr/\|title=N.N. Rimzon – The Round Ocean and the Living Death – Press Release « TALWAR GALLERY\|language=en-US\|access-date=2020-01-30}}</ref>		His most recent show at Talwar Gallery in New Delhi, ''The Round Ocean and the Living Death'', is a continuation of his career's effort to unite the beautiful traditions of India to the complexities of its modern life through an artistic language. The sculpture the show is named after depicts mother-goddess figure seated at the center of a circle representing a quiet power. Rimzon's work requires no prerequisites for engagement, but rather speaks to an older and deeper level of humanity.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://talwargallery.com/rimzon-theroundocean-pr/\|title=N.N. Rimzon – The Round Ocean and the Living Death – Press Release « TALWAR GALLERY\|language=en-US\|access-date=2020-01-30}}</ref>

	~~<br />~~		==Solo exhibitions<ref name="rimzon-bio « TALWAR GALLERY">{{Cite web\|url=https://talwargallery.com/rimzon-bio/\|title=rimzon-bio « TALWAR GALLERY\|language=en-US\|access-date=2020-01-29}}</ref>==

	==Solo ~~Exhibitions~~<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://talwargallery.com/rimzon-bio/\|title=rimzon-bio « TALWAR GALLERY\|language=en-US\|access-date=2020-01-29}}</ref>==

	; 2020 :Talwar Gallery, ''The Round Ocean and the Living Death,'' New Delhi, India<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://talwargallery.com/rimzon-theroundocean-pr/\|title=N.N. Rimzon – The Round Ocean and the Living Death – Press Release « TALWAR GALLERY\|language=en-US\|access-date=2020-01-29}}</ref>		; 2020 :Talwar Gallery, ''The Round Ocean and the Living Death,'' New Delhi, India<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://talwargallery.com/rimzon-theroundocean-pr/\|title=N.N. Rimzon – The Round Ocean and the Living Death – Press Release « TALWAR GALLERY\|language=en-US\|access-date=2020-01-29}}</ref>
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	; 1991 :Art Heritage Gallery, ''Recent Sculpture and Drawings,'' New Delhi, India<ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://www.artheritagegallery.com/past-exhibitions/\|title=Past Exhibitions\|website=Art Heritage {{!}} Art Gallery New Delhi\|language=en-US\|access-date=2020-01-29}}</ref>		; 1991 :Art Heritage Gallery, ''Recent Sculpture and Drawings,'' New Delhi, India<ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://www.artheritagegallery.com/past-exhibitions/\|title=Past Exhibitions\|website=Art Heritage {{!}} Art Gallery New Delhi\|language=en-US\|access-date=2020-01-29}}</ref>

	== Selected ~~Group Exhibitions~~<ref~~>{{Cite web\|url=https://talwargallery.com/rimzon-bio/\|title~~=rimzon-bio « TALWAR GALLERY~~\|language=en-US\|access-date=2020-01-29}}<~~/~~ref~~>==		== Selected group exhibitions<ref name="rimzon-bio « TALWAR GALLERY"/>==
	; 2014 :National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rewriting the Landscape: India and China, Seoul, South Korea<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.mmca.go.kr/eng/exhibitions/exhibitionsDetail.do?menuId=1030000000&exhId=201310310000100\|title=Past Exhibition : Rewriting the Landscape\|last=\|first=\|date=30 January 2020\|website=National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art\|url-status=live\|archive-url=\|archive-date=\|access-date=}}</ref>		; 2014 :National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rewriting the Landscape: India and China, Seoul, South Korea<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.mmca.go.kr/eng/exhibitions/exhibitionsDetail.do?menuId=1030000000&exhId=201310310000100\|title=Past Exhibition : Rewriting the Landscape\|last=\|first=\|date=30 January 2020\|website=National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art\|url-status=live\|archive-url=\|archive-date=\|access-date=}}</ref>
	; 2012 :5th Beijing International Art Biennale, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China<ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://www.bjbiennale.com.cn/en/\|title=BIAB\|website=www.bjbiennale.com.cn\|access-date=2020-01-29}}</ref>		; 2012 :5th Beijing International Art Biennale, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China<ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://www.bjbiennale.com.cn/en/\|title=BIAB\|website=www.bjbiennale.com.cn\|access-date=2020-01-29}}</ref>
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{{Infobox artist
| name = N. N. Rimzon
| birth_name = Nedumgottil Narayanan Rimzon
| birth_date = 1957
| birth_place = [[Kakkoor]], [[Kerala]]
| spouse = Daisy Mathew
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| children = Ritu Rimzon }}
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'''N. N. Rimzon''' (born 1957) is an [[India]]n artist known primarily for his symbolic and enigmatic sculptures.<ref name="ReferenceA">{{cite book|author=Amrita Jhaveri|title=A Guide to 101 Modern and Contemporary Indian Artists|publisher=India Book House|year=2005|isbn=81-7508-423-5}}</ref>
His metal, fiberglass and stone sculptures have won him international acclaim, though in recent years his drawings have gained recognition.<ref name="ReferenceB">Chandran T. Payyanur, ''N.N. Rimzon'', Kashi Art Gallery, 2005</ref>

== Career ==
Rimzon studied sculpture at the College of Fine Arts, [[Thiruvananthapuram]]. He studied at [[Maharaja Sayajirao University]] of [[Baroda]], where he was considered among the best of the upcoming generation of artists that stemmed from MSU alumni including [[Jyoti Bhatt]] and [[Bhupen Khakhar]].<ref>Ashish Radadhyaksha, ''Contemporary Art In Baroda'', Tulika Publishers, 1997, {{ISBN|81-85229-04-X}}</ref> In 1989 he earned his MA with distinction from the [[Royal College of Art]], London.

N. N. Rimzon's work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions worldwide and can be found in the collections of The National Gallery of Modern Art in New Delhi and Mumbai, the Talwar Gallery in New York City and New Delhi, The Foundation for Indian Artists in Amsterdam, and the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.<ref name="ReferenceC">Anoop Skaria and Dorrie Younger, ''N.N. Rimzon'', Kashi Art Gallery, 2005</ref>

== Works ==
Born in the Indian state of [[Kerala]], Rimzon's artistic vocabulary finds root in symbols derived from the rural landscape of southern India: the village compound, the palm tree, the temple, the forest pathway and the handmade canoe. In Rimzon's drawings he develops the themes that are found in his sculpture. Charcoal and dry pastel is used with a simple grace of line to create an often eerie and evocative stillness. This pristine tranquility seems to be intruded upon by symbols such as the sword and the felled tree. A sense of tragedy or alienation underlies depictions of what might otherwise be thought to be rural idylls.<ref name="ReferenceB" /> Rimzon's later works seem as much concerned with ecological threats as with communal aggression.<ref>Karen Miller-Lewis, ''Back to Nature'', Art India, Quarter III, 2007</ref>

As a young man Rimzon experienced the political upheaval that accompanied [[Indira Gandhi]]’s Emergency during the mid-1970s. This was one factor that moved him away from narrative painting to experimentation with conceptually motivated sculpture. Rimzon concentrated on themes that depicted humanity's entrapment and anguish in a hostile environment that was of man's own making. In ''The Inner Voice'' (1992), a sculpted nude figure, cast in fiberglass, is displayed with its back against the wall and surrounded by a semicircle of cast iron swords. In ''Speaking Stones'' (1998), a crouching nude figure uses its hands to both hold its head and shield its eyes. The figure is surrounded by naturally sharp stones, which rest on photographs depicting massacres, demolitions, and other acts of communal violence that have been part of India's more recent history.<ref name="ReferenceA" />

His most recent show at Talwar Gallery in New Delhi, ''The Round Ocean and the Living Death'', is a continuation of his career's effort to unite the beautiful traditions of India to the complexities of its modern life through an artistic language. The sculpture the show is named after depicts mother-goddess figure seated at the center of a circle representing a quiet power. Rimzon's work requires no prerequisites for engagement, but rather speaks to an older and deeper level of humanity.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://talwargallery.com/rimzon-theroundocean-pr/|title=N.N. Rimzon – The Round Ocean and the Living Death – Press Release « TALWAR GALLERY|language=en-US|access-date=2020-01-30}}</ref>

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==Solo Exhibitions<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://talwargallery.com/rimzon-bio/|title=rimzon-bio « TALWAR GALLERY|language=en-US|access-date=2020-01-29}}</ref>==

; 2020 :Talwar Gallery, ''The Round Ocean and the Living Death,'' New Delhi, India<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://talwargallery.com/rimzon-theroundocean-pr/|title=N.N. Rimzon – The Round Ocean and the Living Death – Press Release « TALWAR GALLERY|language=en-US|access-date=2020-01-29}}</ref>
; 2016 :Talwar Gallery, ''Forest of the Living Divine,'' New York, NY, US<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://talwargallery.com/rimzon-livingdivine-pr/|title=rimzon-livingdivine-pr « TALWAR GALLERY|language=en-US|access-date=2020-01-29}}</ref>
; 2007 : Bodhi Art, ''Liminal Embodiment, Seven Oceans and the Unnumbered Stars,'' New York, NY, US
; 2005 :Kashi Art Gallery, ''N.N. Rimzon: Works on paper,'' Kochi, India<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.kashiartgallery.com/Exhibitions_Details.php?c=2004-2005&q=37%20Works%20on%20Paper|title=Kashi Art Gallery {{!}} Cafe, Fort Kochi, Kerala, India|website=www.kashiartgallery.com|access-date=2020-01-29}}</ref>
; 1993 : Gallery Foundation for Indian Artists, ''N.N. Rimzon,'' Amsterdam, Netherlands
; 1991 :Art Heritage Gallery, ''Recent Sculpture and Drawings,'' New Delhi, India<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.artheritagegallery.com/past-exhibitions/|title=Past Exhibitions|website=Art Heritage {{!}} Art Gallery New Delhi|language=en-US|access-date=2020-01-29}}</ref>

== Selected Group Exhibitions<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://talwargallery.com/rimzon-bio/|title=rimzon-bio « TALWAR GALLERY|language=en-US|access-date=2020-01-29}}</ref>==
; 2014 :National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rewriting the Landscape: India and China, Seoul, South Korea<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mmca.go.kr/eng/exhibitions/exhibitionsDetail.do?menuId=1030000000&exhId=201310310000100|title=Past Exhibition : Rewriting the Landscape|last=|first=|date=30 January 2020|website=National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref>
; 2012 :5th Beijing International Art Biennale, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bjbiennale.com.cn/en/|title=BIAB|website=www.bjbiennale.com.cn|access-date=2020-01-29}}</ref>
; 2009 :Talwar Gallery, Excerpts from Diary Pages, New York, NY, US<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://talwargallery.com/diarypages-pr/|title=Excerpts from Diary Pages-Press Release « TALWAR GALLERY|language=en-US|access-date=2020-01-29}}</ref>
; 2008 :Museum of Contemporary Art, Santhal Family: Positions Around an Indian Sculpture, Antwerp, Belgium<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.muhka.be/programme/detail/145-santhal-family-positions-around-an-indian-sculpture|website=www.muhka.be|access-date=2020-01-29}}</ref>
; 2007 :National Gallery of Modern Art, Edge of Desire: Recent Art in India, Mumbai, India<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://ngmaindia.gov.in/index.asp|title=National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi|website=ngmaindia.gov.in|access-date=2020-01-29}}</ref>
; 2006 :Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, Edge of Desire: Recent Art in India, Berkeley, CA, US<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://bampfa.org/program/edge-desire-recent-art-india|title=Edge of Desire: Recent Art in India {{!}} BAMPFA|website=bampfa.org|access-date=2020-01-29}}</ref>
; 2005 :House of World Cultures, The Artist Lives and Works in Baroda/Bombay/Calcutta/Mysore/Rotterdam/Trivandrum, Berlin, Germany<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hkw.de/en/programm/projekte/veranstaltung/p_4042.php|title=The artist lives and works|last=Welt|first=Haus der Kulturen der|date=2011-01-14|website=HKW|language=en|access-date=2020-01-29}}</ref>
; 2004 :Art Gallery of Western Australia, Edge of Desire: Recent Art in India, Perth, Australia<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://artgallery.wa.gov.au/|title=Art Gallery WA|website=Art Gallery WA|language=en|access-date=2020-01-29}}</ref>
; 2003 :House of World Cultures, subTerrain, Berlin Germany<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hkw.de/en/programm/projekte/2005/the_artist_lives/nn_rimzon.php|title=NN Rimzon|last=Welt|first=Haus der Kulturen der|date=2013-12-10|website=HKW|language=en|access-date=2020-01-29}}</ref>
; 2002 :Manchester Art Gallery, Art South Asia, Manchester, UK<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://aaa.org.hk/tc/collection/search/library/art-south-asia-2002-bangladesh-india-pakistan-sri-lanka/search/event-venues:the-university-of-liverpool-art-gallery-liverpool-united-kingdom/page/1|title=Art South Asia|last=|first=|date=|website=Asia Art Archive|language=en|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-01-29}}</ref>
; 1998 :The Japan Foundation Forum, Private Mythology, Tokyo, Japan<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.jpf.go.jp/e/publish/asia_exhibition_history/22_98_mythology.html|title=The Japan Foundation - Private Mythology : Contemporary Art from India|website=www.jpf.go.jp|access-date=2020-01-29}}</ref>

==References==

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==External links==
*The Asian Age, [http://talwargallery.com/wp-content/themes/emptiness/rimzon-press/2016rimzonasianage.pdf Nature and Femininity], July 2016.
*Art India, [http://talwargallery.com/wp-content/themes/emptiness/rimzon-press/2016rimzonartindia.pdf ''Magic Under the Skies''], April 2016.
*Mint, [http://talwargallery.com/wp-content/themes/emptiness/rimzon-press/rimzon2016mint.pdf ''The Modernist Sprawl,''] February 2016.
*[http://www.contemporaryindianart.com/n_n_rimzon.htm Online biography]
*[http://www.artnet.com/artist/424784395/nn-rimzon.html N.N. Rimzon on ArtNet]
*[https://www.flickr.com/photos/rimzon/ Rimzon photos on Flickr]
*[http://rimzon.googlepages.com/ Rimzon website]

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