Shah Jahan
Shah Jahan studied Fine Art at Balliol College, Oxford University and completed postgraduate studies at de Ateliers, Amsterdam. He has exhibited in several group shows in Europe and America. His work is focused on the ‘pop mechanism’; by pop the artist means Pop Art. He is interested in the dialogue between the artists Joseph Beuys and Andy Warhol; Beuys always said art should be anthropological, against postmodernism, saying there was no truth in it. Shah has been exploring what pop may have been. He personalises pop and creates a visual dialogue that is a filter of sense data. He has developed as a painter, by pursuing his interest in the creation of ‘open’ and ‘closed’ images concerned with the transfer of video and photographic stimuli to supports. His aim: to take static matter and develop it into a kinetic form, experimenting with various materials.