“In my work “Standard Function”, I have enlarged the common circular plastic hair-comb approximately fourteen times its actual size. The deliberate act of increasing its dimensions brings into focus minute details of structure that remain unnoticed in the object's natural size. By transforming its appearance, I want to redefine its status as a common object and rediscover its innate physicality. I perceive these mundane objects differently; these are objects that are taken for granted and even collected with ignorance of their true functionality.”

Biju Jose born in 1972. Biju did his BFA in sculpture from College of Fine Arts, Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath, Bangalore. Masters of Fine Arts (Sculpture) Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S.U. Baroda in 1999. In 2000 UNIDEE - Universities of Ideas,Cittadellarte Foundazione Pistoletto, Biella, Italy. The work draws from the long heritage of traditional Indian art forms and in equal measure from the more radical movements in western art and strives for an effective synthesis.

Finding more fulfillments in sculpture and installations, he uses a variety of media ranging from steel, fiberglass, found objects and such conventional materials to locally sourced organic material like betel leaves, arca nut, tobacco leaves etc that one may easily identify as being very "Indian". The content may vary between my more personal concerns like environmentalism/animal rights, and other issues like globalization and it's double-edged effects. The new age of information has also had negative eroding effects on the more traditional societies. Its mostly very personal reflections and reactions to what I observe around him.

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