River Song – Solo Exhibition
Vinita Karim has lived and worked in Asia, the Middle East and Europe. Educated in Sweden and Philippines, her landscapes draw on her travel and experience, yet consistently link back to her roots in India. Vinita’s gilt-leafed canvases are set around lands lived and imagined, in histories and geographies of her choosing, places rich with […]
Spectrum – Solo Exhibition
This collection has been curated by his acute perceptiveness of the wonder of language; a joyful explosion of words chiselled into highly complex and abstract forms. But it’s unifying theme seems to be man, his place in the universe and his endeavours. ‘Making a Name for Yourself’ and ‘Moving Ahead’ explore aspects of human ambition, personal […]
Subtle Forces – Group Show
Text as Text (Part I) Group Show Curated by Shubhalaxmi Shukla
Since the 1960’s decade, written and readable text has interested the likes of artists from diverse cultures while the world in the 21st century occupies spectacles of artworks by artists who work with text and have found a new approach to voice simple and deep insights by acknowledging text as material. This makes text as […]
March ganapati
This exhibition, spanning a 30-year period, showcases mixed media, painted fiberglass sculptures, drawings, and etching-collages in two distinct shows. It delves into the inspiration and creative expressions derived from Ganesha, the elephant-headed deity, in Sujata Bajaj’s work. Sujata Bajaj, renowned as an abstract colourist, unveils a lesser-known aspect of her artistry in this iconic departure. […]
The silent eternity
A sleeping Buddha’s head reclines at an angle, the quiet repose meditative and quieting because of its towering scale, represented as gods must be among mere humans. The mesmerising quality of The Buddhas Within is hypnotic, leading one to pause between meditation and circumambulation, choices that hint at its deific qualification, yet the former is […]
Turkish consulate – group show
Turkey: Crossroads Of The World Turkey, the bridge between continents, the meeting point of East and West, Asia and Europe, has witnessed many golden ages of art throughout the centuries. Today it is once again home to an extraordinarily vibrant contemporary art scene. History stands testimony to the cultural and intellectual dialogue that has spawned […]
Moksha Shots – Solo exhibition
In Hindu and Buddhist philosophy, moksh means salvation. Since most of us won’t get to moksh in this lifetime, we can get a glimpse of it. A mokshashot (by the artists’ own definition) is a taste of the sublime. “Everyone can make their own mokshashot out of anything they find fulfilling…art, chocolate, a holiday, a […]
Performers – Solo exhibition
She places windows often within domestic spaces, windows that look into landscapes of the mind. These she depicts as artist self-portraits. Lajmi was born to a poet father and a poly-linguist writer mother in 1932. Through a vocabulary of an unequal distribution of images and perspectives within the same plane she narrates a layered history of the modern […]
The Other Self – Solo exhibition
Seema’s ode to the forms of energy, each distinctive and with its own unique properties, stems from her own belief in the self. Within each individual reside several energies that shape a personality, and the struggle for recognition of one single consciousness. Seema Kohli’s works claim a sense of feminine subjectivities, an altered concept of […]