Rajasekharan Parameswaran

Rajasekharan Parameswaran (born 1964), also known as Marthandam Rajasekharan, is an Indian art director and self-taught painter from Tamil Nadu. He holds two Guinness World Records.

Personal life Born in 1964, Parameswaran lives in Kaliyakkavilai, Tamil Nadu, India. He is married with two daughters.

In 2008, Parameswaran received a Guinness World Record for creating the largest easel painting, a portrait of former Chief Minister of Kerala E. M. S. Namboodiripad, which measures 25' x 50' and is displayed on a 56.5' x 31' easel on National Highway 47, near Neyyattinkara, in Kerala.

He received a second Guinness World Record in 2017 for "The Largest Devil's Knot (Edaakoodam)", a type of Burr puzzle, unveiled on 27 December 2017 at the Ravis Hotels and Resorts, Kollam, Kerala. Each piece of the puzzle measures 24' x 2' x 2'.

Parameswaran won the Bikhuram National Award in 2010 for his painting of Mahatma Gandhi. That same year, his painting of Fidel Castro won an online art contest organized by ArtSlant International.

His work was exhibited at Elegance Club in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in 2015. The exhibition included a portrait of Adhiletchumy Natrajan, titled Bliss, which was previously featured at the Vienna International Exhibition (2013). His painting Bhayanakam was exhibited and sold at the Lalit Kala Akademi in Chennai, with the proceeds donated to a relief fund for victims of Cyclone Thane (2011).

Parameswaran's portraits include depictions of Mother Teresa, Abdul Kalam, Richard Branson, and Najib Razak. 2015 – Memoirs Journey – at Elegance Club, Malaysia 2016 – Oxford International Art Fair – representing Laksagi Art Gallery, Malaysia 2016 – Symposium of Oil Painting Exhibition – 2016, Batu Gajah, Malaysia. 2017 – Oil Painting Demo of Abdul Kalam at Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST) Trivandrum, India. 2018 – Oil painting Demo of Elamkulam Namboodiripad at "EMS-ntey Lokam" – national Seminar at Wandoor, Malappuram, Kerala. 2019 – Oil painting Demo of Lokanath Behera drawing-life-to-a-painting – Band stand, Museum, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. 2019 – Chithra Sancharam-2019, the national level painting exhibition at Kerala Lalithakala Akademi Art Gallery, Vyloppilli Samskrithi Bhavan, Thiruvananthapuram. 2019 – Chithra Sancharam-II, the national level painting exhibition-2019 at Kerala Lalithakala Akademi Art Gallery,Kozhicode. 2019 – Solo Show-2019, 14 Oct to 30 Dec, Palaces of the Golden Horses , Jalan Kuda Emas, Mines Wellness City, 43300 Seri Kembangan, Malaysia 2021 – OVIYAM Kerala Arts and Crafts Village, Kovalam, Trivandrum. 20 January 2024 – Gefuhle-Solo oil painting exhibition, Dallas, Texas. 14 April

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