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 -
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 -
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
