Past
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BLACK BLUE YELLOW
T. Venkanna 8 Jan - 29 Mar 2025 Black Blue Yellow , the second in a proposed trilogy of ink brush painting exhibitions by T. Venkanna, follows up on the unflinching meditations on death contained in his 2017 exhibition Looking for Peace with a similarly trenchant exploration of sex. It draws on Indian and European myths, archetypes and... Read more -
(In) Visible
Parag Sonarghare 12 Nov - 21 Dec 2024 Oliver Cromwell, who led a brief overthrow of the British monarchy in the mid-17th century, is said to have instructed the artist Samuel Cooper to paint his portrait, “warts and all”, breaking from the tradition of concealing blemishes in depictions of wealthy patrons. Parag Sonarghare is an inheritor of the... Read more -
Landscape of Confronted Abstraction
Madhu Das 12 Sep - 2 Nov 2024 Madhu Das comes across as an artist who is not in a hurry. His works are meticulously planned performance pieces that appear frozen in time. Landscape of Confronted Abstraction is a body of work that is built painstakingly over the last 11 years. The show comprises of five recent sculptures... Read more -
Venkanna Drawings 2014-2024: Part I
T. Venkanna 14 Mar - 1 Jun 2024 Drawings by Venkanna are in abundance and reveal him to be an outstanding draughtsman. He combines superb technical skills with a powerful imagination to use the medium of drawing to express himself. Venkanna employs various media - pencil, pen and ink, charcoal, watercolour, and permanent ink - all with great... Read more -
i will lie to you forever
Priyanka Choudhury 11 Jan - 2 Mar 2024 While Egyptian papyri, medieval European illuminated manuscripts and Indian books of miniatures are among historical forms that utilise both words and paintings, the combination of text and image in one integrated whole is primarily a legacy of advertising. Unsurprisingly, a number of visual artists who employed text had a background... Read more -
REWORKINGS
T. Venkanna 14 Nov 2023 - 4 Jan 2024 Venkanna occasionally revisits earlier work and reinterprets some aspect of it in another medium. The proportion of such explorations are insignificant compared to his overall output or to other prolific artists like Norwegian Edvard Munch. Munch was known for creating multiple versions of The Sick Child , Vampire , The... Read more -
Supernatural
Abraham George 10 Aug - 9 Sep 2023 Supernatural is a series of photochemical prints made from digitally produced negatives. These works look at the historical entangle-ment of science with image-making since the early modern era. Referencing natural history illustration, early photography, and digital imaging technologies, they consider how representations of nature order the world, with frequently monstrous... Read more -
LOOKING FOR PEACE
T. Venkanna 15 Apr - 25 May 2023 Of the great stages of life, death is perhaps the most frightening, and death as a result of war, perhaps the most tragic. In this series of large-format ink drawings, artist T . Venkanna visits the horrors of war and examines the impact of violence - not just on humans,... Read more -
LOVE ME AS I AM
T. Venkanna 12 Jan - 18 Feb 2023 With this new body of work, Venkanna returns to the ‘self’. Not the narcissistic self, nor the prejudiced self, but the organic self. The ME in Love Me As I AM , is a collective noun that encompasses all sentient beings including nature and the environment. In a world that... Read more -
AS I AM
T. Venkanna 10 Feb - 10 Mar 2022 T. Venkanna’s art transcends profane reality, to create a world of symbolic meaning. In his works - the depiction of violence and sexual appetites, are used as tropes to examine far-reaching concerns. The longings, pleasures and frustrations wrought by love. The awareness that gender does not derive naturally from the... Read more -
PORTRAITS OF THE SELF - II
Parag Sonarghare | Prashant Pandey 11 - 30 Jan 2021 Portraits of the Self – II places the human body in focus - revealing not only its strength and passion, but also its vulnerability and sensuality. Parag Sonarghare and Prashant Pandey - the two artists in this show, come from very different backgrounds and work in contrasting mediums and styles.... Read more -
LOVE ME
T. Venkanna 19 Sep - 2 Dec 2019 T. Venkanna’s art transcends profane reality, to create a world of symbolic meaning. In his works - the depiction of violence and sexual appetites, are used as tropes to examine far-reaching concerns. The longings, pleasures and frustrations wrought by love. The awareness that gender does not derive naturally from the... Read more -
Tradition/Transformation
T. Venkanna and the Karigars of Kalhath Institute 16 Jan - 15 Feb 2019 Tradition/Transformation marks the culmination of a 3-week collaboration between contemporary artist T. Venkanna and fourteen Zardozi artisan graduates or Karigars of the Kalhath Institute in Lucknow. Separated by a forward slash, the relationship between “tradition” and “transformation” is purposely left ambiguous and suggests a potent force at work. On one... Read more -
animal.spirit.algorithm
Abraham George 11 - 31 Mar 2016 My work looks at how narratives and technologies configure our image of poetry and authority and in turn are affected by them. In this show, the central motif began as naïve drawings of buildings along a street. This was arranged in grid-like patterns and developed into a series of unique... Read more -
PORTRAIT OF SELF
Max Streicher & Parag Sonarghare 23 Jan - 27 Feb 2016 Portraits of the Self is the second successive exhibition curated by Abhay Maskara, that places the human body in focus - revealing not only its strength and passion, but also its vulnerability and sensuality. While the previous show was centered around the female form, this show is an enquiry into... Read more -
The Second Throw
Priyanka Choudhary 11 Dec 2015 - 9 Jan 2016 In this fourth solo show at Gallery Maskara, artist Priyanka Choudhary draws from her 2013-2014 experience of performing in five major conflict zones in four different continents. In these new works, the touch of the performance has become the touch of porcelain, and the physical experience of the body has... Read more -
Tembling Hands (Of A Clock)
Anant Joshi 22 Oct - 21 Nov 2015 Anant Joshi’s ‘Trembling Hands (of a Clock)’ is a grid of 200 miniature-sized sculptures, arrayed and presented as a hundred related or contending pairs. The artist likes to think of these sculptures as “hand-held objects”, a definition that can attach itself to pieces in a board game but also to... Read more -
The Smile on the Mask
Abraham George 12 - 26 Mar 2015 This series of photochemical drawings by artist Abharam George is the outcome of several years of deliberately working without any overarching framework. It is rooted instead, in a thinking-through-materials approach, to a process that Abraham feels has the potential to create the kinds of surfaces, tones and forms that he... Read more -
Celebration
T. Venkanna 16 Jan - 7 Mar 2015 Constantly immediate and with raw openness, T. Venkanna creates new art for a new world. His storytelling takes various forms through constellations of images, collage, pastiche, the recourse to allegory, metaphor - all ways of thinking-in-pictures, from which understanding emerges without having to be expounded. Although he uses both erotic... Read more -
LANGUAGE OF DECEASED | OPEN STUDIO
Shine Shivan 14 Nov 2014 - 8 Jan 2015 If 'painting is dead' - as was first proclaimed in 1839 by French painter Paul Delaroche, it is safe to say that drawing is 'deader'. Dating back some 40,000 years to cave painting in pre-history, drawing was popularized as an art form from the 14th century onwards, by master draughtsmen... Read more -
Itself
N. Parsharamulu 10 Oct - 8 Nov 2014 In his paintings, artist N. Parsharamulu employs figuration, distortion and abstraction with a great deal of economy and ease. He uses a pared-down palette made up of shades of black, white and red - drawing the viewer into a psychological space. The human forms appear as figures in motion, only... Read more -
Anatomy of an Unknown Chair
Mansoor Ali 13 - 31 Jul 2014 Artist Mansoor Ali has long used chairs as a commentary on the Indian political system. By altering their usual configuration, proportion and context, the artist creates sculptures that are open to various interpretations. In previous works - such as Dance of Democracy 2008, Ali stacked 'sarkari' chairs one on top... Read more -
1914- 2014
Priyanka Choudhary 10 Jan - 28 Feb 2014 Read more -
Ideal Boy
Roshan Chhabria 11 Oct - 28 Dec 2013 Do you get up early in the morning and salute your parents? Go for morning walks, brush your teeth, bathe daily and take your meals on time? Help others and pray to god? Take part in games and social activity? This is a culturally constructed image of an 'ideal boy'... Read more -
Flavour Chart
Meenakshi Sengupta 9 Aug - 28 Sep 2013 Meenakshi Sengupta expands the relevance of miniature painting in contemporary art by using all its complexities as a point of departure in her works. While traditional Indian miniature painting is grounded in mythology, religious narrative, scenes of battles and court life, Sengupta pushes formal and aesthetic boundaries to produce new... Read more -
Pancha Mahabhuta
T. Venkanna 29 Mar - 13 Jul 2013 T. Venkanna’s “Pancha Mahabhuta” takes each of the five elements – Earth, Sky, Air, Fire and Water and catalogues ways of seeing them through varied representation. The delicate fragments that detail each work include - archetypes, dreams, sexual fantasy, references from art history and primordial images, that make up the... Read more -
Glimpse of Thirst
Shine Shivan 11 Jan - 14 Mar 2013 Shine’s new body of work - created as a series of fantasy characters, represents through their amorphousness all the greys along the broad spectrum of gender differences. Deliberately providing through their pre-meditated flamboyance, a brief but much needed respite from any stable act of gender categorization. Masculinity here is demonstrated... Read more -
Shelf Life II
Prashant Pandey 24 Sep - 8 Nov 2012 Prashant Pandey reawakens perception of everyday life by defying conventional logic when it comes to ways of seeing discarded objects. Through his use of found, recycled and reclaimed material like sweet lime bagasse, marble blast-stones and chunks of road tar, Pandey uses by-products of human activity in innovative ways, interrupting... Read more -
Another Documentation
Avantika Bawa 9 Aug - 13 Sep 2012 Another Documentation reflects the artist, Avantika Bawa’s continued interest in investigating subtle links between drawing, sculpture and architecture. Through the choice and placement of works, Bawa presents the gallery as a ‘construction-site’ where notions of the everyday that may otherwise go unnoticed are put into creative order. The resultant assemblage... Read more -
Brought Up As Rabbit
Narendra Yadav 22 Mar - 28 Apr 2012 Works in the show “Brought Up As Rabbit” question our conditioned response to the themes of our time - it interrogates our media conditioning, examines our western conditioning, questions our contemporary art conditioning and uncovers our internal conditioning of rejecting the ultimate fate. These works expose the traps for us... Read more -
New Works
Aaditi Joshi 16 Dec 2011 - 29 Jan 2012 In her first solo show, Aaditi Joshi dissolves the distinction between form and content. Plastic is both the subject and the material of the sculptural installations. Influenced by the debris she sees around her in the city, she resurrects the perception of trash, more specifically plastic, from its home in... Read more -
Tetanus Midas
Priyanka Choudhary 30 Sep 2011 Priyanka Choudhary, in her second solo show at Gallery Maskara, is presenting four site-specific sculptural installations. Through these works the artist aims to transform the sensory experience of physical space into a psychological arena. She invites us to examine the process of destruction that follows the process of giving birth.... Read more -
Open Studio
T. Venkanna 19 Aug - 4 Sep 2011 Read more -
Hold On
Avantika Bawa and Celina Jeffery 1 Jun - 3 Jul 2011 Can one ‘hold on’ to a territory amidst the onslaught of rapid, indeterminate and exhausting change? What is this sensation of being located at the edge, periphery or border of perpetual disturbance and what happens if we let go? The works in this exhibition explore the conceptual, material and sensory... Read more -
Suck Spit
Shine Shivan 28 Mar - 15 May 2011 Shine Shivan’s new works are invested with characteristic elemental and primordial dynamism of which the material itself is the essence. Shivan works with a variety of commonplace and natural materials such as deer feces, chirchita seeds, animal bones, quail eggs, human hair, bird feathers, and thread. Through the juxtaposition of... Read more -
The Trophy
Ruben Bellinkx 14 Feb - 13 Mar 2011 Ruben Bellinkx works across various media, from drawings and photo works to video, film and installations; his choice of a particular medium is an important factor in the realization of a work. Cinematic and photographic means offer Bellinkx the possibility to compose, to isolate elements, to repeat and compress, all... Read more -
Ashwamedh
Max Streicher 26 Nov 2010 - 30 Jan 2011 Max Streicher is best known for his colossal inflated figures and their engagement with architectural spaces - interior and exterior. The work, Ashwamedh, currently installed at Gallery Maskara, is a continuation of a series of ‘equestrian monuments’, or should we say anti-monuments? For all their enormous presence, they are but... Read more -
Shelf Life
Prashant Pandey 30 Aug - 26 Sep 2010 Prashant Pandey reawakens perception of everyday life by destroying conventional logic when it comes to ways of seeing discarded objects. Through his use of recycled, reclaimed and found material like abandoned industrial containers, cigarette butts, cane trash, urine and blood - Pandey uses by-products of human activity and discarded material... Read more -
Nul to Now
Priyanka Choudhary 3 - 22 Aug 2010 What began in Dusseldorf and quickly developed as one of the most significant avant-garde art movements of the 20th century finds a new take in Delhi based Priyanka Choudhary. Her works unwittingly echo the concerns first voiced by German artists Otto Piene and Heinz Mack, who formed the ‘Zero Group’... Read more -
Subrato to Cesar
RIyas Komu 12 Jun - 12 Jul 2010 As the biggest football festival begins it is time to introspect what the FIFA World Cup brings to the millions of football fans in the country. This show is an attempt to revisit memories of one of the oldest sport in the country. The language of football is one of... Read more -
Memory Minus Me
Narendra Yadav 20 Apr - 21 May 2010 Works of art are open to myriad emotional and intellectual interpretations – especially the art of Narendra Yadav who skillfully straddles multiple genres from kinetic sculpture to site-specific installation. His works grapple with esoteric ideas of time, memory, faith, and human conditioning. In this show, Yadav, challenges the viewer to... Read more -
Sacred and Profane
T. Venkanna 15 Mar - 15 Apr 2010 Read more -
Everything is Real
Neil Hamon, Ruben Bellinkx, Nadia Lichtig, Peter Buggenhout, Shine Shivan 9 Feb - 7 Mar 2010 From meticulously constructed photographs that occupy the space between documentary and fiction to sculptures made with dust and bone. From confessional texts that occasionally break into song to moving images that silently blur the lines between reality and fantasy. Works by all the artists chosen to be part of ‘Everything... Read more -
Sperm Weaver
Shine Shivan 18 Dec 2009 - 29 Jan 2010 Shine Shivan’s works are semi-autobiographical excavations of the nature of masculinity. Through constructions that are both innovative and inventive, Shivan probes and re-defines the psychological tropes, experiences and roles attached to masculinity. In his works, gender identity and gender typing emerge neither as biologically determined nor inevitable, but as a... Read more -
Mathesis: dub, dub, dub
Avantika Bawa 3 Dec 2009 Mathesis, Dub dub, dub, addresses the architecture of the gallery, its history as a warehouse and the geography of its surrounding areas. Using simple design principles and approaches; crates, bricks, debris, blue prints and projections are recontextulized in this unfamiliar territory, creating in the process a transformed experience of the... Read more -
In Determination
Monali Meher 6 Oct 2009 Read more -
Pavlov's Love
Narendra Yadav 28 Feb - 4 Apr 2009 Gallery Maskara has a clear and compelling mission to taking a global and multidisciplinary approach to art that responds to the cultural fabric of our time thus fueling critical dialogue, collaboration, and public engagement. More simply put it is to EXHIBIT AND PROMOTE ART OF THE PRESENT. The project space... Read more -
For Identity
T. Venkanna 14 Jan - 28 Feb 2009 Read more -
Between Us
NIna Pandolfo 17 Nov - 31 Dec 2008 There is a child in all of us – playful, innocent and always dreaming. Nina transports us back to our wonder years through the big beady eyes of cute little girls and into a fantasyland where the sun always shines bright and the stars come out to play at night.... Read more -
loosentiefirst
Filepe Cama, Fernando Chieco, Mansoor Ali, Narendra Yadav & T Venkanna 17 Nov - 31 Dec 2008 There is a 'dirty content' swapping culture that feeds a substantial part of the mailboxes of internet users around the globe. Focusing on this aspect of the web culture artist Felipe Cama [1970, Brazil] developed a series of works about the current relationships between the individual and information, about how... Read more -
res derelictae II
Peter Buggenhout 18 Jul - 7 Sep 2008 The Belgian artist Peter Buggenhout (born 1963) started his career as a painter and drawer. In 1989 his paintings exploded into 3D. Since then Buggenhout has been creating sculptures and huge installations with dust titled 'The Blind Leading the Blind', using waste material (iron slag/polystyrene/polyester), plastic packaging, rubbish and residue,... Read more -
Moonwalk
Aaditi Joshi, Nityanand Ojha, Tatheer Daryani 13 Apr - 10 May 2008 From the opacity of plastic to the density of bone, from the fragility of glass to the potency of mercury and blood. All the three artists chosen to be part of ‘Moonwalk’ bring a fresh and exciting perspective to material, matter and method. Through this show we will continue to... Read more -
Max Streicher - Solo Show
1 Mar - 1 Jun 2008 Curatorial Note: Inflatables conjure memories of play and innocence yet it also brings forth the fragility and impermanence of existence. Children are at once fascinated by balloons – soap bubbles and air filled toys - enamored by their lightness, enchanted by their buoyancy, and devastated when they break…. I first... Read more
