Shahanshah Mittal

Shahanshah Mittal

  • Artist’s Statement

    When, I look back on my past years (which I spent alone in Delhi) so, there was not any other special thing in my mind except painting. As my master suggested me to spend most of the time in doing and understanding the phenomena and secret of painting and only painting. So, I started following the instructions of my master without overthinking and start doing work.
    After sometime, I realized that what all I experienced in my daily chores, it reflects in my art world such as: The texture of Concrete walls and Concrete road and the rhythm of music and whenever I see anything around me so, the image of particular thing clicks in my mind and I paint according to its feeling. I do not work with a lot of thought in mind. I thoroughly enjoys the freedom and allows things to flow in a natural way. As I have great affection towards Music, nature and spirituality which draws my attention towards the unique world, I am trying to get to know myself in the Support of music, nature and spirituality. I have a strong feeling for microcosm world, this is the only reason that my art work is in abstract. The feeling of my work is totally abstraction.
    My work attempts to create environments that I want to find in myself they represent internal worlds that I am attempting to externalize and share. My works are minimal and balanced, yet full of rhythm and asymmetry. However life’s beauty is expressed however it is felt has to do with a feeling of calm, inside and out. I love what the great musician ‘Hariprashad Chaurasia’ said “So my instrument there is simply bamboo. The sound is straight from nature and it connects me to nature.” Similarly, I like to work on paper, Paper is the medium in which I feel completely free and I want to understand the music of nature more deeply with the help of these mediums.
    My recent art practice is going on understanding the lives of saints, in which I am very impressed with Swami Vivekanand, Saint Kabir and Bulleshah. I am very happy to see the music of the lives all the saints, which I try to explore in my studio practice every day. Now these all things have become a part of my work. You must have seen some letters in my work but I use like just a form of drawing because I do painting and listen music and spiritual audio simultaneously, Although there is no intention behind it but yes it creates some kind of harmony in my work as like a poetry. You must will find a flower in my work which always reminds me the “I always remember seeing that flower as is I was ready to blossom.”
    Each work and each series is a visual diary of my exploration. My ideas evolve as I apply my sense of order and play to the image and material at hand. I may start with an idea in mind, but somewhere between intention and chance I find new directions. I’m never quite sure how a painting will look until it’s finished.

  • Biography

    Shahanshah Mittal was born in 1989 in Gwalior. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Fine Arts, specializing in Applied Arts, from the College of Art, Jabalpur. He further pursued his passion for art by completing his Master's in Fine Arts from R.M.T University, Gwalior.

    Shahanshah's works have been exhibited in numerous solo and group shows, such as the 'Poetic Reminiscence 2023' at the Nine Fish Art Gallery and 'Meditative Gestures' at Art Incept. He has also participated in a group show titled 'Formless Whisper' curated by Rahul Kumar at the Shridharani Gallery in New Delhi, among others. Shahanshah has been recognized for his artistic talents and has received several awards, including the Birla Academy Award, the Prafulla Dhanukar Award, and the Lalit Kala Academy Award.

    His work is an expression of his creativity and is inspired by his surroundings, including the peeling walls of his rented apartment in Delhi and the flowers on his balcony. His palette is largely monochromatic and his work is devoid of heavy concepts and intellectual context. This allows the viewers to layer their own experiences on his work. He uses classical music as a constant companion and finds inspiration in the lyrics of songs, which he recreates in his works as forms that appear like text but have no meaning.

    Shahanshah has been practicing as an artist for the past ten years and lives and works in Delhi.

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Shahanshah Mittal

Language of Existence 5
42 x 70 ″ Artist editioned prints

Shahanshah Mittal

Memory of my Kolkata 1 (Edition of 9)
40 x 72 ″ Artist editioned canvas prints

Shahanshah Mittal

Language of Existence - 10
18 x 18 ″ Dry Pastel on Canvas

Shahanshah Mittal

Language of Existence - 9
18 x 18 ″ Dry Pastel on Canvas

Shahanshah Mittal

Language of Existence - 8
18 x 18 ″ Dry Pastel on Canvas

Shahanshah Mittal

Language of Existence - 7
18 x 18 ″ Dry Pastel on Canvas

Shahanshah Mittal

Language of Existence - 6
18 x 18 ″ Dry Pastel on Canvas

Shahanshah Mittal

Language of Existence - 5
18 x 18 ″ Dry Pastel on Canvas

Shahanshah Mittal

Language of Existence - 4
18 x 18 ″ Dry Pastel on Canvas

Shahanshah Mittal

Language of Existence - 3
18 x 18 ″ Dry Pastel on Canvas

Shahanshah Mittal

Language of Existence - 2
18 x 18 ″ Dry Pastel on Canvas

Shahanshah Mittal

Language of Existence -1
18 x 18 ″ Dry Pastel on Canvas

Shahanshah Mittal

Untitled
15 x 14 ″ Dry Pastels on Paper Board

Shahanshah Mittal

Untitled
15 x 14 ″ Framed: 20 x 18 ″ Dry Pastels on Paper Board

Shahanshah Mittal

New Artwork
72 x 72 ″ Dry Pastels on Paper Board

Shahanshah Mittal

Untitled
47 x 57 ″ Mixed Media on Canvas

Shahanshah Mittal

Untitled
40 x 60 ″ Paper collage, dry pastels on paper board

Shahanshah Mittal

Untitled
40 x 60 ″ Paper collage, dry pastels on paper board

Shahanshah Mittal

Untitled-5
60 x 40 ″ Dry Pastels and Paper Pasting on Mount Board

Shahanshah Mittal

Untitled-3
20 x 20 ″ Dry Pastels and Paper Pasting on Mount Board

Shahanshah Mittal

Kabir Series
20 x 20 ″ Mixed Media on Paper

Shahanshah Mittal

untitled
15 x 14 ″ dry pastels on Paper

Shahanshah Mittal

Untitled
20 x 20 ″ dry pastel and mixed media on paperboard

Shahanshah Mittal

untitled
20 x 20 ″ dry pastel and mixed media on paperboard

Shahanshah Mittal

Memory of my Kolkata 15
56 x 36 ″ Dry pigment on mount board