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Transfixed
Anusha Yadav 30 Nov - 31 Dec 2020 Anusha Yadav is a photographer, art books, and legacy designer, as well as the founder of Indian Memory Project – The world’s first, and a most admired online visual & narrative archives. She was born in London, and brought up between UK, USA and India in a family that celebrated creative and cultural curiosity. After graduating from NID, Ahmedabad in Communication Design, she began working with leading advertising and design houses. A few years later, photography and a photo archival discourse became part of her ongoing independent artistic and commercial practice. Anusha has received several national and international invitations to showcase her photography, and archival works. Among them was Chemould Prescott Road’s 2017 three part exhibition, ‘Access Time’. Titled ’The Photograph is Proof, the show presented an archival-detective project based on historical forensic photography from the subcontinent. Anusha has also received accolades for excellence and innovation in cultural design, and digital Arts. Anusha lives and works in Mumbai, India. Read more -
Game of Chance
Lavanya Mani | In-Touch Edition IV 22 Sep - 7 Nov 2020 Early versions of the board game ‘Snakes and ladders originated in India as ‘Gyan chaupar’ or ‘Game of knowledge’. Usually painted on cloth or paper, these boards were often religious and didactic, instructing its players in the paths of spiritual discipline. The board was designed on the theory of Karma... Read more -
In The Presence of Absence
Samira Rathod | In-Touch Edition III 17 Jul - 15 Sep 2020 Read more -
Breathing on Mirrors
Anju Dodiya 11 Jun - 30 Jul 2020 Venue : Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai. Breathing on Mirrors ...as if, in a monosyllabic conversation, or mimicking emoticons, I have confined these drawings to a minimal emotional theatre. Like the German poet Rilke insists, the protagonist lets everything happen to her: beauty and terror. The tension of the creative act... Read more -
Photo / Concept
Group show | In-Touch Edition II 5 Jun - 5 Jul 2020 Read more -
Out-site / Insight
Group Show | In touch Edition I 24 Apr - 23 Jul 2020 We approached our artists inquiring how they were doing in this time of isolation. Several of them are unable to make art - using their time to read, watch films, or make work that is a process between themselves and their drawing board. Others have shared works where they have... Read more -
Painting in the Time of Corona
Dhruvi Acharya 18 Apr - 18 May 2020 ALL WORKS ARE ON SALE. PROCEEDS WILL GO TOWARDS CHARITY. For available works and price list please click on the link below : https://privateviews.artlogic.net/2/25388a44d9d0f8b11f4e7f/ As Dhruvi Acharya’s watercolour paintings go on sale, proceeds will go towards those who are severely affected during this pandemic. Mumbai-based artist Dhruvi Acharya, known for... Read more -
Don't ask me about colour
Mehlli Gobhai : A Retrospective 6 Mar - 25 Apr 2020 DON’T ASK ME ABOUT COLOUR Mehlli Gobhai: A Retrospective Venue : National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai. Curated by Ranjit Hoskote & Nancy Adajania Meherwan Minocher Gobhai (1931-2018), always known as Mehlli Gobhai, was one of India’s most distinguished and pathbreaking abstractionists. Educated at St Xavier’s... Read more -
Terranum Nuncius
Jitish Kallat 10 - 21 Jan 2020 For ‘Covering Letter (Terranum Nuncius) [2019–20], Kallat draws from the two phonographic Golden Records that were hoisted onto the legendary Voyager 1 and 2 space probes launched by NASA in 1977. Currently located over 13 billion miles away from Planet Earth, the contents of this ‘time capsule’ were assembled for NASA by a committee chaired by Carl Sagan. It is expected to continue its cosmic journey well beyond the probable extinction of our species and our planet, carrying the barest traces to describe life on Earth and Human Civilization.
The gallery will be permeated with the sound of greetings to the universe in 55 languages. A large round table with over one hundred 3-D photographic transparencies placed on it occupies the space. To create them, Kallat has referenced the images decoded by Ron Barry, a US-based software engineer. Forty years after the images were first uploaded onto the Golden Record as sound files, Barry has converted the audio clips back to images as if they were accessed by an extra-terrestrial who would have to follow a similar procedure to view the images. These images range from scientific and cosmological diagrams, representations of our genetic make-up and anatomy, as well as other life forms, architecture etc., often annotated with measurements. This is an epic presentation of “our” world to an unknown other. At a time when we find ourselves in a deeply divided world, Kallat foregrounds these sounds and images for a collective meditation on ourselves as residents of a single planet, where the ‘other’ is an unknown ‘intergalactic alien’. Also part of the installation is a bench that takes the shape of the hands of the Doomsday Clock. This symbolic clock, presented annually by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, represents a hypothetical human-made global catastrophe as "midnight,” and the proximity of the world to apocalypse as a number of "minutes" to midnight,
‘Ellipsis’ [2018–20] is Jitish Kallat’s largest painting to date, spanning approximately 60 feet (18 meters). Over the last two years, Kallat’s painterly practice has intersected more directly with his varying artistic inquiries and intellectual pursuits to produce a radical linguistic renewal. Taking the form of a deeply speculative and exploratory abstraction, indistinct impulses, private ruminations and discarded references are summoned and memorialized as pictorial assemblies. A meticulously hand-drawn graph underpins the entire painting. ‘Ellipsis’ is replete with signs and a web-work of free associations that challenge the viewer with a compelling tension, ambiguity and irresolution. Abstract gestures seem to crystallize, acquire perceptible form and resonate with meaning as if celestial orbits, geographical coordinate systems, botanical and topographical evocations begin to reveal the signatures of generative growth, evolution and entropy.
Born in 1974, Jitish Kallat has exhibited his work widely across the world in contexts such as galleries, museums and biennials. His oeuvre spans painting, photography, drawing, video and sculptural installations. In 2017, the National Gallery of Modern Art (New Delhi) presented a mid-career retrospective of his work titled ‘Here After Here’ [1992–2017] curated by Catherine David. Kallat has had solo exhibitions at museums such the Art Institute of Chicago, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Bhau Daji Lad Museum (Mumbai), the Ian Potter Museum of Art (Melbourne), CSMVS Museum (Mumbai), the San Jose Museum of Art and Art Gallery of New South Wales (Sydney), amongst other.
His work has been part of the Venice Biennale, Gwangju Biennale, Havana Biennale, Asia Pacific Triennale (Brisbane), Asian Art Triennale (Fukuoka), Curitiba Biennale (Brazil), and Kiev Biennale amongst others. His works are in the permanent collections of Centre Pompidou, Paris; the Art Institute of Chicago; M+ Hong Kong; the Brooklyn Museum; Victoria & Albert Museum, London; the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi; among many others. Kallat also served as the curator and Artistic Director of the second edition of Kochi-Muziris Biennale in 2014. Kallat lives and works in Mumbai, India. Read more -
Recent Life
N S Harsha 9 Jan - 20 Feb 2020 Read more -
Blind Spots
Reena Saini Kallat 29 Nov - 28 Dec 2019 DEMARCATIONS Reena Saini Kallat, Recent Works Reena Saini Kallat’s work is an extended and productive engagement with two starkly opposed conditions: schism and conflict on the one hand; and, on the other, hybridity and synthesis. This long-standing preoccupation emerges from the artist’s inheritance: her family background connects her to the... Read more -
5 Artists, 5 Projects
Nilima Sheikh | Anju Dodiya | Mithu Sen | Reena Saini Kallat | Archana Hande 10 Oct - 9 Nov 2019 Read more -
Woven Memoirs - A new kind of nature
Priya Ravish Mehra 5 Sep - 1 Oct 2019 Read more -
Modus Operandi II
Group Show 18 Jul - 24 Aug 2019 Read more -
Signs taken for Wonders
Lavanya Mani 14 Mar - 30 Apr 2019 Read more -
Seven Minutes of Blackmail
Atul Dodiya 17 Jan - 21 Feb 2019 This set of paintings explores Dodiya’s obsession with the medium of film, where his signature photographic painting style is often mistaken for photography. In this exhibition, he pays homage to the genius of Hitchcock, where Atul is seen recreating his legacy through the close watching of the Hitchcock film, Blackmail.... Read more -
Abhaya In the palm of our hand
Bijoy Jain 30 Nov 2018 - 3 Jan 2019 Read more -
So it goes
Yardena Kurulkar 22 Oct - 22 Nov 2018 Viewing art, like making it, is a private act, an intimate one. Particularly when it is about death. Viewing death, in life and in art, is again intensely personal, mostly individual. Or is it? Don’t we seem to give death- in life and in art-a public face? We place obituaries... Read more -
In the Womb of the Land
Ritesh Meshram 6 Sep - 11 Oct 2018 Read more -
Modus Operandi
Group Show 13 Jul - 18 Aug 2018 Read more -
Water Has Memory
Meera Devidayal 17 Apr - 12 May 2018 My attempt has always been to turn the ‘found image’ into a visual metaphor, and charge it with new meaning. In this collection the trigger was — an office building surrounded by office buildings; the sea somewhere round the corner, unseen, suddenly appearing as a reflection in a window. As... Read more -
Juloos and Other Stories
Shakuntala Kulkarni 14 Mar - 7 Apr 2018 Julus and other stories A multimedia project consisting of four synchronized videos, chalk drawings on board, prints of wiped-off chalk drawings and cane accessories. In this exhibition, Juloos and Other Stories, the film addresses performance, which is planned and structured with a beginning and an end, the chalk drawings address... Read more -
UnMYthU
Mithu Sen 1 Feb - 3 Mar 2018 UnMYthU is a museum show that presents byproducts of twenty years of performance. Simultaneously, it is a preview of an (un)certain future museum show. Mithu Sen has created five instructional byproducts which will be performed under surveillance and strict contractual guidelines during the period of the exhibition. Read more -
Smoke Out
Tallur LN 18 Dec 2017 - 18 Jan 2018 “When the water reaches the upper level, we follow the rats” Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months two rats could have over a million descendants. Philosophically, the rat is a connotation of the human mind. Our mind is always full of desires and is often selfish, just like... Read more -
Terrain: Carrying Across Leaving Behind
Nilima Sheikh 17 Nov - 9 Dec 2017 A girl child abandoned lest, as prophesied, she grows up to find love outside her community, drifts down the river. A woman crosses a mountain river supported by an earthenware pot to meet her ‘illicit’ lover every night. These songs of doomed resistance, of Sassi, Sohni or Heer are still... Read more -
Mapping Memory
Madhvi Subrahmanian 7 - 29 Sep 2017 With ecology in delicate balance today, Madhvi Subrahmanian has created a tactile experience where questions about the disconnect of contemporary times with its environment are brought forth. Her works are made of terracotta, stoneware, porcelain, gold and cowdung, which invite you to meander through this show, reconnecting with the most... Read more -
Access Time
9 - 23 Mar 2017 Read more -
fold / unfold
Sonia Khurana 20 Jan - 25 Feb 2017 Fold/unfold gathers different vignettes across time, that place the body in an oblique relation to diffused feminist aesthetics of the counter-spectacle and performative resistance. I have aligned the selection of artworks for ‘fold/unfold’ with my recent, extensive conversations with cultural theorist and visual analyst, Griselda Pollock. Both her recent essay... Read more -
Ōtah Prōtah
Bhuvanesh Gowda 9 Dec 2016 - 6 Jan 2017 The show featured a set of Bhuvanesh's recent sculptures made of discarded (and o< en decaying) pieces of wood salvaged from dismantled houses and elsewhere. Breathing new life into seemingly redundant objects, Bhuvanesh conceptually aBempts to reconnect the past with the present. In his skilled hands, old and worn out... Read more -
After the Fall
Dhruvi Acharya 14 Oct - 19 Nov 2016 In this body of work with a large site specific soft-sculptural installation, artist Dhruvi Acharya tries to investigate what happens to the mind, body and soul when one experiences that which is unfathomable, irreversible and unpredictable. Employing her subtle, dark and wry humour, Dhruvi Acharya’s new body of work explores... Read more -
46 Pillars
Sheetal Gatani 15 May - 30 Aug 2016 Read more -
The In-Coming Passengers
Desmond Lazaro 10 Mar - 16 Apr 2016 Desmond Lazaro was born into an Anglo Indian family in Leeds, England. His parents on the other hand migrated from Burma to Leeds in 1957 and Lazaro's great-grandfather hailed from Madras in the 1800s. When Desmond moved to India to do his MFA at the Faculty of Fine Arts in... Read more -
Sightings
Jitish Kallat 22 Feb - 1 Mar 2016 The exhibition Sightings brings together an assembly of conceptual and sensory propositions through a suite of drawings, sculptures, photo-pieces and video. Seen throughout the exhibition are the themes of time, sustenance, sleep, along with an interplay of scales and proximities, and evocations of the celestial; preoccupations that have recurred across... Read more -
I am a landscape painter
Archana Hande 3 Dec 2015 - 6 Jan 2016 Read more -
The Ark
Gigi Scaria 22 Oct - 21 Nov 2015 An apocalypse is coming onto us; our world and the worlds before. According to Gigi Scaria, climate change and subsequent territorial disputes have the potential to tear the social fabric of humanity. His work intervenes at the juncture of this apocalypse as explores this fantastical Biblical devastation. As the steps... Read more -
Hyphenated Lives
Reena Saini Kallat 11 Sep - 10 Oct 2015 Reena Saini Kallat’s solo exhibition at Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai, titled Hyphenated Lives advance poetic and provocative inquiries into ideas of unison and estrangement, of confluence and conflict. After a gap of nearly 7 years since her last solo at the gallery in 2008, Hyphenated Lives opened on 11th September... Read more -
A Summer Mix
20 May - 15 Jul 2015 Read more -
As if - IV Night for Day
9 Mar - 30 Apr 2015 Read more -
Masquerade and Other Apologues
Anant Joshi 15 Jan - 14 Feb 2015 Joshi installs his paintings like a set of comic strips, choreographed to be discursive to the viewer, while letting his watercolour cartoons jut out like museum displays of frescoes, in his show where he revisits the history of the cartoon in newsprint. It is a meticulous study of a peculiar... Read more -
Aesthetic Bind: Floating World
Group Show 19 Mar - 17 Apr 2014 Dhruvi Acharya | Atul Bhalla | Jayashree Chakravarty | N S Harsha | Reena Saini Kallat | Desmond Lazaro | Lavanya Mani | Gulammohammed Sheikh | Nilima Sheikh & Fayaz Ahmad Jan | Hema Upadhyay Among several imaginaries conjured by the Floating World, there is cosmology and a revolving earth-world;... Read more -
Aesthetic Bind: Cabinet Closet Wunderkammer | Group Show
20 Jan - 3 Mar 2014 Atul Dodiya | Shilpa Gupta | Archana Hande | Anant Joshi | Shakuntala Kulkarni | Yardena Kurulkar | Prajakta Potnis | Mithu Sen | Paula Sengupta | Charmi Gada Shah | Vivan Sundaram | Suresh BV There are small exhibitions within this exhibition compacted by a set of framing devices.... Read more -
Aesthetic Bind: Phantomata
Group show 29 Nov 2013 - 3 Jan 2014 Nikhil Chopra | Pratul Dash | Tushar Joag | Ranbir Kaleka | Sonia Khurana | Susanta Mandal Pushpamala N | Baiju Parthan | Mithu Sen | Sudarshan Shetty | Kiran Subbaiah | L. N. Tallur | Raqs Media Collective A monumental photograph condenses Nikhil Chopra’s five-day ‘pilgrimage’ where the artist,... Read more -
Aesthetic Bind: Citizen Artist: Forms of Address | Group show
14 Oct - 15 Nov 2013 CAMP, Gauri Gill, Shilpa Gupta, Arunkumar H G, Tushar Joag, Jitish Kallat, K M Madhusudhanan, Pushpamala N, Ram Rahman Rashid Rana, Inder Salim, Gigi Scaria, Raqs Media Collective Read more -
Aesthetic Bind: Subject of Death | Group Show
3 Sep - 3 Oct 2013 Bhupen Khakhar, Anju Dodiya, Mehlli Gobhai, Gieve Patel, Sudhir Patwardhan, Srinivasa Prasad, Gargi Raina, Mithu Sen, Sudarshan Shetty, Aditi Singh Read more -
Monika Correa | Meandering Warps
24 Jan - 23 Feb 2013 Read more -
Pushpamala N | Avega the Passion
6 Nov - 6 Dec 2012 Read more -
Room for Erasures
Anju Dodiya 24 Sep - 26 Oct 2012 Read more -
Of Bodies, Armour and Cages
Shakuntala Kulkarni 17 Aug - 15 Sep 2012 Read more -
In Pursuit of the Ridiculous
Bhuvanesh Gowda & Ritesh Meshram 7 Jul - 3 Aug 2012 Read more -
Apposite Opposite
Rashid Rana 6 Apr - 26 May 2012 Read more -
Gagawaka: Making Strange
Vivan Sundaram 27 Feb - 21 Mar 2012 Read more -
Someone Else
Shilpa Gupta 21 Jan - 16 Feb 2012 Read more -
Passageway
Wolfgang Liab 16 Dec 2011 - 13 Jan 2012 Read more -
Everyone Carries a Room About Inside
Aradhana Seth 5 Nov - 8 Dec 2011 Read more -
Bako Exists. Imagine
Atul Dodiya 10 - 20 Oct 2011 Read more -
Stations of a Pause
Jitish Kallat 22 Mar - 5 May 2011 Read more -
New Works
Mehlli Gobhai 13 Jan - 28 Feb 2011 Read more -
Let it be a heaven of blackbed roses
Aditi Singh 9 Dec 2010 - 8 Jan 2011 Read more -
Splitting the Other
Nalini Manali 1 - 30 Nov 2010 Read more -
Black Candy
Mithu Sen 23 Feb - 20 Mar 2010 Read more -
Paris Autumn
Pushpamala N 9 Nov - 9 Dec 2009 Read more -
In Praise of Folly
Lavanya Mani 4 - 28 Sep 2009 Read more -
Amusement Park
Gigi Scaria 5 - 31 Aug 2009 Read more -
Silt of Seasons
Reena Kallat Saini 8 Dec 2008 - 25 Jan 2009 In Silt of Seasons the coming together of her recent body of work under one roof, including the varied media of sculpture, photography, painting and video reflect a wide range of her recurrent thematic engagements and interests: politics, evolutions in human conditions, notions of loss, territory and borders; her art... Read more -
Me-Mom
Tanujaa Rane 17 Oct - 15 Nov 2008 Tanujaa Rane is a printmaker, who has pursued the technique of etching today with a meticulousness that is rare in today’s world of art production. Printmaking is a subject that several artists take up while in art school, but the continued practice is now somewhat rare. Making of prints is... Read more -
New Works
Desmond Lazaro 17 Sep - 8 Oct 2008 This body of work is a return to contemporary imagery, the occupancy of discarded minutes of everyday life - fleeting moments that rarely one retains as visual. He continues to employ traditional techniques in a craftsman like manner through the stringent preparation of all materials: cloth, paper, brushes and pigment... Read more -
One Life on Earth
Dhruvi Acharya 6 - 30 Aug 2008 Read more -
Trash
Vivan Sundaram 22 Apr - 17 May 2008 Vivan Sundaram’s exhibition, Trash, develops a theme that has engaged him since 1997. Based on the economy and aesthetics of second-hand goods and urban waste, Trash recalls Sundaram’s installation, Great Indian Bazaar, (1997), and carries over parts of his large exhibition, living.it.out.in.delhi,(2005). In Delhi he had involved waste-pickers in the... Read more -
Stand Still Like a Humming Bird
Aditi Singh 27 Mar - 11 Apr 2008 For Singh, the natural world is a tableau through which the artist explores the processes that define and question a more internal world - one of perception and sensory experience. Her compositions are an interplay between stillness and motion, fragility and permanence, an equilibrium that is at once tense and... Read more -
Dis-Location
Rashid Rana 12 - 29 Nov 2007 In this age of uncertainty we have lost the privilege to have only one worldview: the absence of truth or realisation of its impossibility is invoked through the works of Rashid Rana. Now every image, idea and truth (may it be ancient or media generated) encompasses its opposite within itself.... Read more -
And When She Roared The Universe Quaked
Shakuntala Kulkarni 12 - 30 Oct 2007 In “…and when she roared the universe quaked”, Shakuntala Kulkarni examines gendered, female, creative/creating bodies as a site of both “otherness” and empowerment. By adopting a vocabulary of defamiliarised bodies, eerie juxtapositions and sculptural signifiers, she playfully confronts, angrily shatters or slyly subverts the limitations of epic, “timeless” narratives and... Read more -
Shri Khakhar Prasanna
Atul Dodiya 2 Feb - 3 Mar 2007 When the idea of a new gallery and an expansion programme emerged, it was very clear to Shireen that she would open the gallery with an Atul Dodiya show. Dodiya’s first solo exhibition in 1989 was held by Gallery Chemould and it was the first show that Shireen planned and... Read more