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The Anthill and the Anvil, 2013 

Archival print on Hahnemuhle Paper

Dwelling, 2013, 28X54 inches, Archival print on Hahnemuhle Paper

Dystopia, 2013, 15X70 inches, Archival print on Hahnemuhle Paper

Bypassing the road, 2013, 15X70  inches,  Archival print on Hahnemuhle Paper

Side-by-side, 2013, 15X70 inches,  Archival print on Hahnemuhle Paper

Habitat, 2012,  22X46 inches, Archival print on Hahnemuhle Paper

Detail of Habitat

Detail of Habitat

Counterfeit, 2015, 36X56 inches, Archival print on Hahnemuhle Paper

Notes from the underground

All that is Solid Melts into Air, 2021, 18X72 inches,  Archival print

Brick by Brick, 2021, 18X72 inches,  Archival print

Through a Glass Darkly, 24X46 inches,  Archival print

Untitled, 2022

 

Designed by Chinnan

Link

 http://www.betterphotography.in/perspectives/dystopia-memories-babu-eshwar-prasad/217352/

ಗಾಳಿಬೀಜ Gaalibeeja 

Wind Seed

Venkatesh Prasad and Bhanu Prakash Chandra

Mohammed Rizwan

Amaresh Bijjal

Prateet Rajendra 

Mohammed Rizwan

95 minutes | Kanada film | 2015
Written and Directed by Babu Eshwar Prasad
Camera: B R Viswanath
Editor: M N Swamy
Music : Marcus Maeder
Cast: Venkatesh Prasad, Amaresh Bijjal, Mohammed Rizwan,
Bhanu Prakash Chandra, Divya Murthy

About the Film:

The title of the film is Gaalibeeja, which literally translated into English means ‘Wind Seed’. Gaalibeeja is a visually arresting meditation on cinema and modernity. The road is the central protagonist of the film connecting the various characters. The film opens with Prakash, a civil engineer, leaving for a road widening project in an unnamed village. His encounters along the way–a peddler of pirated DVDs who hands him a set of road movies, a farmer at a highway bus stop, and a poster sticker on his bicycle–form the backbone of this idiosyncratic film. While the paths of these diverse characters intersect and interrupt one another, it becomes clear that they each live in a vastly different time and space–one that is shaped by class and access to progress. While paying homage to the likes of Wim Wenders, Jim Jarmusch, and Abbas Kiarostami, Prasad blends social critique with exquisite cinematic form in his take on the “road movie.” The film presents a fragmented narrative through images and soundscapes. The road carries us, connects us, it equally disrupts lives. The film explores this ambivalence and the different temporalities people inhabit.

About the filmmaker :

Babu Eshwar Prasad completed BFA (Painting) from Karnataka Chitrakala Parishat, Bangalore and MFA (Graphics) from M.S.University, Baroda and has held exhibitions since 1996 regularly. Working across media Prasad has been making short videos since 1997 – Gaalibeejais his debut feature film, entirely self‐financed, and is an exploration of the medium of cinema by a contemporary artist. The film was selected for NFDC Film Bazaar Recommendation in the Feature Film Section, Film Bazaar, Goa, 2014 while in rough cut stage. Upon completion it has been shown at 17th Jio MAMI (Mumbai Film Festival) in the India Story Section, 2015, at the Bengaluru International Film Festival in the Asian Cinema Competition, 2016 and 3rd i, San Francisco International South Asian Film Festival, 2016 apart from independent screenings in Delhi, Mysore, Hyderabad, Kochi and Bangalore etc.

Some links:

http://scroll.in/article/763485/gaali‐beeja‐is‐a‐movie‐about‐a‐road‐and‐road‐movies http://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/regional/gone‐with‐the‐wind‐3/ http://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/art‐and‐culture/on‐the‐record‐life‐on‐the‐road‐2759541/ http://johnyml.blogspot.in/2016/04/road‐to‐redemption‐gaali‐beeja‐of‐babu.html http://www.thirdi.org/event/gaalibeeja‐windseed/

Gaalibeeja (Wind Seed) at

17th Jio MAMI (Mumbai Film Festival) 2015,
Screening details: Sunday, November 1, 2015‐PVR ECX 3, Andheri ‐1:30 PM, Thursday,November 5, 2015 Phoenix 2 ‐4:00 PM ‐Lower Parel

8th Bengaluru International Film Festival, ASIAN CINEMA COMPETITION 2016
Screening details: Monday, February 1, 2016 Inox 2, Mall of Mysore, Mysore‐5:45 pm Tuesday, February 2, 2016 PVR 8, Orion Mall, Bengaluru ‐2:45 pm

3rd i's 14th San Francisco International South Asian Film Festival
Nov 19, 2016, BlueLight Cinemas 5, Cupertino, United States, 12:00 pm

NGMA Bengaluru, in collaboration with Ananya‐Drishya,
Saturday, February 6, 2016, Bengaluru

Dept of Information & Public relations, Mysore in collaboration with Karnataka Chalnachitra Academy And Mysore Film Society
Thursday, February 11, 2016, Mysore

India International Centre , C D Deshmukh auditorium, New Delhi
Tuesday, April 5, 2016, New Delhi

Avani One, Mandalay Hall, Kochi
Thursday, May 19, 2016, Kochi

Kalikote Governament Fine Art College, Odisha
Wednesday, October 5, 2016, Odisha

Mysore Dasra Film Festival
Saturday, October 8, 2016, Mysore

Chitramayi, State Art Gallery, Madhapur, Hyderabad
Wednesday, November 2, 2016, Hyderabad

Venkatappa Art gallery Bengaluru, in collaboration with Ananya‐Drishya,

Thursday, November 24, 2016, 6 pm, Bengaluru

School of Arts and Aesthetics Auditorium, Jawaharlal University
Friday, January, 13, 2017, 5.30 pm, New Delhi

Kochi‐Muziris Biennale 2016
February, 22, 2017, 6:30 pm. Cabral Yard, Fort Kochi

18th FilmColumbia, Crandell Theatre, Chatham, in northern Columbia County, New York
Tuesday, October 24, 2017, 12:00pm

Whitefield Art Collective
Sunday, March 12, 2017, 6:00 pm, Sky Deck, VR Bengaluru

Maraa - a media and arts collective
Sunday, August, 6, 2017, 6:30 pm · Alternative Law Forum · Bangalore

NGMA Bengaluru, in collaboration with Ananya‐Drishya,
'Memories' - Amaresh U Bijjal Films and Videos made by his friends
Sunday, October 29, 2017, 11.30 am, Bengaluru

Museum K21, Kunstsammlung NRW, Düsseldorf
June 6, 2018, Düsseldorf

School of Architecture, CHRIST
Thursday, 12th July, 2018.

NIFT, Bengaluru.
Wednesday, 29th August, 2018

Gauhati Artist Guild
Saturday, March 30, 2019

Skin of the Earth
 
Exhibition of Recent Works by Babu Eshwar Prasad

February 20 – March 13, 2013
Gallery Sumukha, Bangalore

The exhibition presents a series of works that engage with the idea of soil. This preoccupation
shows itself at many levels – examining the soil's formal qualities and textures, and the kind of
sedimentation that occurs over time, as well as speaking of it metaphorically, of the earth 'bearing witness'. It explores ecological ramifications, looking at the phenomena of industrialization and the kind of impressions it has made on the landscape.

I remain interested in the concept of utility in the age of industrial production and excessive
consumption where an object quickly morphs from being a luxury item, to turning into basic
necessity and finally getting discarded. Construction machinery and sites, hi-tension cable wires, the junkyards of industrial relics, building equipment and signage that dot the city, anthills, mining sites - all these are collaged together to form composite images. What monuments will this moment produce? What kind of legacy will it leave behind? The images silently accumulate evidence and link the past, present and future.



Babu Eshwar Prasad
January 2013

                                         An Ode To Bosch, Wood Inlay, 16.5” x 26.5”

 

                                                  Open and Shut, Acrylic on canvas, 48” x 36”

                           Bypassing the road, Archival Print on Hanhemule Paper, Edition of 6, 15” x 70”

                               Side-by-side, Archival Print on Hanhemule Paper, Edition of 6, 15” x 70”

                             Dystopia, Archival Print on Hanhemule Paper, Edition of 6, 15” x 70”

                     Anthill and the anvil, Archival Print on Hanhemule Paper, Edition of 6, 26” x 22”

                               Dwelling, Archival Print on Hanhemule Paper, Edition of 6, 28” x 54”

                                                  Yellow Earth, Acrylic on canvas, 72” x 48”

                                         Yellow Sky and Dragon Flies, Acrylic on canvas, 72” x 48”

                                Habitat, Archival Print on Hanhemule Paper, Edition of 6, 22” x 48”

                                Greed, Archival Print on Hanhemule Paper, Edition of 6, 18” x 22”

                               Growth, Archival Print on Hanhemule Paper, Edition of 6, 18” x 22”

                               I like the story as well as when you told it, Acrylic on canvas, 48” x 36”

                                     Stills from Video Fast Forward to Zero, 2:38 Minutes, 2011

                                           Stills from Video Looped, PAL,3:18 minutes, 2012