Haribaabu Naatesan

My Philosophy
I see life in stillness. And a beginning in every end.
Ever wondered what happens to obsolete walkmans and out-of date video tapes? To blunt saw blades and to dead cell phones. To ancient floppy discs and fused light bulbs?
What happens to what we generally call ‘scrap’?
Just because they have out-lived their use, do they deserve to be forgotten away in attics, thrown into bins? Or, just piled up in one corner of a scrap yard?
Science believes "Matter and energy is neither created nor destroyed, it can just change in form." An unbroken cycle of creation and destruction. And artistic recycling.
Again, this unending cycle is also spiritual in nature – birth and rebirth.
And so I see life in stillness. And a beginning in every end.
Whenever I see scrap materials, I see a soul waiting to come to life.
I see science merging into art into design into spirituality.
And I create.

Name: Haribaabu Naatesan
D.O.B: 17th January 1976
Address: 3/13 Versova view, 4 - Bungalows, Andheri west, Mumbai 400 053.
Mobile no: +91 99309 68591.
Website: fossilss.com
Email Id: haribaabu@fossilss.com
Educational background:
B Sc. in Visual Communication Design from Govt. College of fine arts, Chennai.
Post-Graduation in Animation Film Design from National Institute of Design, Ahmadabad.
Work experience:
2005: Executive O.A.P in SS Music, Chennai.
2006: Head, Graphic and Packaging design for Via Earth films, Mumbai.
2008: Free-lanced animation projects for Network 18, Reliance, BBC, etc.
Now practicing art using Industrial e-waste materials.
About my work:
It's a DESIGN in ART form and vice versa. I call it a GREEN DESIGN, because this work of art involves DESIGN – a ‘reprocess’ of the waste materials around us. And an ART - as to sensibly put things into places...to give a meaning to the creation.

Previous Exhibitions:
2020: Participating in 53nd Annual Exhibition 2020 at Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Kolkata
2019: 2nd – 30th Nov, Goup show at Art Bengaluru, 2019.
2019: January 30th, Solo Exhibition, “Equilibrium – The irreversible” Gallery Art Positive, Lado Sarai, New Delhi, INDIA
2019: January 9th, Participated in 52nd Annual Exhibition 2019 at Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Kolkata
2017: 10th October, 6th International “FROM WASTE TO ART” Exhibition, Baku, Azerbaijan
2016: 1st – 5th October, Participated in “Repercussions” group show, at Durbar Hall, Kochi, Kerala
2016: 9th January, Participated in 49th Annual Exhibition 2016 at Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Kolkata.
2015: 22nd - 28th December Jahangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, INDIA
2015: 14th –19th June, 4th International “FROM WASTE TO ART” Exhibition, Baku, Azerbaijan
2015: 18th – 25th September “KERALA MUSEUM ART RESIDENCY”, Kochi, Kerala, India
2015: 15th February, Plan India Art Auction for charity, Pune.
2012: February 4th, Kala Ghoda Arts Festival, Organized by the Kala Ghoda Association, Mumbai.
2012: September 27th, Sparkles of Soul, A group exhibition by eminent artists, Habitat Centre, New Delhi
2011: January 9th, Participated in...