painting portfolio 2020 — 2024
Curriculum Vitae
Introduction Letter
Chapter 1 | 2024
1 After Balthus
10 Imagined
22 Still Life and Portraits
Chapter 2 | 2023 | 30 - 53
Chapter 3 | 2022 | 54 - 61
Chapter 4 | 2021 | 62 - 67
Chapter 5 | 2020 | 68 - 76
Jivan
Painter
Kalicharan
°1990, Leiden, the Netherlands
Based in Antwerp, Belgium
jivan-k@hotmail.com
+31 639 46 03 51
Exhibitions
2024
A Balthus Notebook — Atelier Zwaan — Leiden
Vue de Dos — Stieglitz19 Gallery — Antwerp
2023
Ommagio a Caravaggio — Santo Campo — Ghent
The Wonderer — Diskus — Aalst
Boys and Birds — Kunstroute Leiden
2022
Hit or Miss — Group Exhibition — Washboard art gallery — Antwerp
Masters Expo — Royal Academy of Fine Arts — Antwerp
Tram 1 — Group Exhibition — Antwerp
2021
Exhibition A — group exhibition — Antwerp
2019
Lange Zaal selection — Royal Academy of Fine Arts — Antwerp
Education
2011 — 2016
Philosophy MA — 2016 — University of Amsterdam
2018 — 2022
Painting MA — 2022 — Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp
Extracurricular
2015
Cover design and illustrations — Discorsi — political science magazine
2020 — 2021
Member of the student council — Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp
I have been active as a painter since graduating with an MA in Painting from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp (2022). Various collectors and individuals have acquired my work.
I specialise in oil painting that leans on painting methods from the 16th to 19th centuries. The Flemish painters Theodoor Rombouts, Jacob Jordaens, and Peter-Paul Rubens are important because of the build-up of their paintings. In these works, a monochrome brown or grey underlayer, often drawn with brushes and indicating the light values, serves as a basis for the subsequent layers and remains visible in the final result.
In addition to this, the subject matter is painted from the sketchbook and repertoire; rather than from perception. This allows complex representations to be made coherently. The construction of several distinct layers brings clarity and the subject matter becomes more prominent.
The mavericks of the 20th century are also important to my work such as Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon, David Hockney, Alice Neel, and Balthus. I regularly invite people into my studio to pose - occasionally a pose from art history precedes this - often the subject dictates the pose. The pose arises by chance in the break when a model is going through an unguarded moment. I have a deep interest in pre-modern forms and I see these, like the body, as expressions of ways of thinking.
Chapter 1 | 2024
Rebekka sur une Banquette, 2024, oil on linen, 90 x 80 cm
Cécile Reading, 2024, oil on linen, 100 x 80 cm
The Card Game, 2024, oil on linen, 28 x 34 cm
The Children, 2024, oil on linen, 100 x 80 cm
Girl by the Window, 2024, oil on linen, 60 x 80 cm
Lady Johnson, 2024, oil on linen, 80 x 100 cm
La Toilette de Cécile, 2024, oil on linen, 70 x 60 cm
The Art of Painting, 2024, oil on linen, 155 x 115 cm
Afternoon Nap, 2024, oil on linen, 50 x 60 cm
Cowboy2000, 2024, oil on linen, 100 x 80 cm
, 2024, oil on linen, 80 x 90 cm
Cowgirl1995
Pool Game , 2024, oil on linen, 80 x 100 cm
Surprise!, 2024, oil on linen, 100 x 80 cm
Jilmen’s Ashtray, 2024, oil on linen, 50 x 40 cm
The Fountainhead, 2024, oil on linen, 42 x 36 cm
Daphne in the Studio, 2024, oil on linen, 180 x 80 cm
Kaki, 2024, oil on linen, 36 x 40 cm
Portrait of a Young Woman, 2024, oil on linen, 70 x 60 cm
Portrait of a Young Man, 2024, oil on linen, 100 x 80 cm
Chapter 2 | 2023
the Rape of the Sabine Women , 2023, oil on linen, 155 x 115 cm
Moroccan Football Player, 2023, oil on linen, 70 x 50 cm
Milla Stretching in the Atelier, 2023, oil on linen, 115 x 155 cm
Snooker Table, 2023, oil on linen, 70 x 60 cm
The Knitter , 2023, oil on linen, 80 x 90 cm
Cécile Picking Apples, 2023, oil on linen, 70 x 50 cm
The Arsonist, 2023, oil on linen, 115 x 90 cm
Selfie, 2023, oil on linen, 90 x 80 cm
Swanboy, 2023, oil on linen, 50 x 40 cm
Buttocks, 2023, oil on linen, 40 x 35 cm
Nude, 2023, oil on linen, 46 x 30 cm
Girl with a Pear (and no earring), 2023, oil on linen, 40 x 32 cm
Toilet Attendant, 2023, oil on linen, 40 x 32 cm
Chapter 3 | 2022
The Precourse , 2022, oil on linen, 170 x 120 cm
Girl with Dog, 2022, oil on cardboard mounted on wood, 117 x 77 cm
Cécile with iPhone, 2022, oil on cardboard mounted on wood, 80 x 100 cm
The Picnic , 2022, oil on linen, 110 x 130 cm
Chapter 3 | 2021
, 2021, oil on linen, 150 x 130 cm
Baptiste
Piano Player, 2021, oil on linen, 110 x 130 cm
Chapter 4 | 2020
Mr Mundane, 2020, oil on linen, 110 x 80 cm
Sarah in the Basement, 2020, oil on linen, 170 x 120 cm
Honey, 2020, oil on linen, 100 x 80 cm
Jivan, 2020, oil on linen, 100 x 80 cm
Jivan Kalicharan | jivan-k@hotmail.com | @jivkali
Portfolio design by
| sarah@hopperandfuchs.com
Sarah Stone