If you ask a beholder to describe Haribaabu Naatesan’s art, “arresting” would be the word of choice. At times abstract, at other times lucid despite its enormity, his vision parallels Michelangelo’s in reverse. The High Renaissance artist envisioned the statue within every block of stone, while Haribaabu senses the soul in each piece of scrap he comes across and liberates it.

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Using junk and electronic waste to create enthralling ‘green art design works', the award-winning artist Haribaabu Naatesan promotes the ‘save the environment’ theme uniquely through his inimitable art at his solo exhibition ‘Irreversible 2.0 – Obsoleteness is Mukti’ at the iconic Jehangir Art Gallery.

Dahlea Hari, Haribaabu Naatesan, Uttam Pacharne and Jyoti Uttam Pacharne at the inauguration of award-winning artist Haribaabu Naatesan's show 'Irreversible 2.0 - Obsoleteness is Mukti'

Haribaabu Naatesan and Dahlea Hari at the inauguration of award-winning artist Haribaabu Naatesan's show 'Irreversible 2.0 - Obsoleteness is Mukti'

Madhusudan Kumar, Ajoykaant Ruia and Haribaabu Naatesan at the inauguration of award-winning artist Haribaabu Naatesan's show 'Irreversible 2.0 - Obsoleteness is Mukti'

Vishwa Sahni, Satyendra Rane and Sonu Gupta at the inauguration of award-winning artist Haribaabu Naatesan's show 'Irreversible 2.0 - Obsoleteness is Mukti'

Vishwa Sahni, Haribaabu Naatesan, Gautam Mukherjee, Sonu Gupta and Satyendra Rane at the inauguration of award-winning artist Haribaabu Naatesan's show 'Irreversible 2.0 - Obsoleteness is Mukti'

Vipta Kapadia and Dahlea Hari at the inauguration of award-winning artist Haribaabu Naatesan's show 'Irreversible 2.0 - Obsoleteness is Mukti'

Haribaabu Naatesan and Uttam Pacharne at the inauguration of award-winning artist Haribaabu Naatesan's show 'Irreversible 2.0 - Obsoleteness is Mukti'

Jyoti Pacharne, Uttam Pacharne, Haribaabu Naatesan, Purushottam Berde, Vasudeo Kamath and Paramprem at the inauguration of award-winning artist Haribaabu Naatesan's show 'Irreversible 2.0'

Ajoykaant Ruia at the inauguration of award-winning artist Haribaabu Naatesan's show 'Irreversible 2.0 - Obsoleteness is Mukti'

Dahlea Hari, Gauram Mukherjee, Madhusudan Kumar, Haribaabu Naatesan, Bhagwan Rampure, Uttam Pacharne, Vasudeo Kamath & Ratan Saha at the inauguration of award-winning artist Haribaabu Naatesan's show

The inauguration of Haribaabu Naatesan's art show saw in attendance dignitaries from the art world like Uttam Pacharne (Chairman, Lalit Kala Akademi), Ajoykaant Ruia (President, Indo Vietnamese Chamber of Commerce), veteran and noted artists Vasudeo Kamath, Vipta Kapadia, Gautam Mukherjee, Ratan Saha, Satyendra Rane, Bhagwan Rampure, Madhusudan Kumar, Vishwa Sahni, Sonu Gupta, graphic designer Dahlea Hari, filmmaker and DOP Bobby Brahma among many others.

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Explaining the exhibit’s theme, Haribaabu Naatesan imparts, “My current works are interactive—when a viewer approaches any installation, one or the other static component comes alive and moves. Some have sensors that light up when viewers close in while certain others include abandoned CPU fans that begin to rotate. There’s even this huge tape-recorder cassette whose wheels start to churn when someone approaches the artwork.

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” The show includes around 12 such artworks created from all manners of electronic scrap such as motherboards, CPU cooling fans, CDs, floppy discs, laptop keyboards, tape-recorder cassettes, speakers, among other odds and ends. All of them took up to six months to put together and are about 6 feet x 6 feet in measurement.

Haribaabu Naatesan's 'Irreversible 2.0 - Obsoleteness is Mukti' will be on display at Jehangir Art Gallery, Kala Ghoda till 31st January, 2022.