Exhibitions

Current

Intangible World of a Stranger
Tito Stanley SJ 27 Nov - 30 Dec 2022 Welcome to the twilight zone, the suspended moment of mystique wherein lies Tito Stanley’s fantastical worldview. It is a land of contradictions, replete with flashes of vibrant tenderness and discombobulation that is all at once startlingly familiar and comforting, and yet unknown and disturbing. It is what Mikhail Bakhtin called... Read more

Past

Breaking the Mould - Emerging artists from Baroda
Curated by Aditi Ghildiyal and Shankar Tripathi 20 Sep - 23 Oct 2022 ‘you shall above all things be glad and young For if you’re young, whatever life you wear it will become you; and if you are glad whatever’s living will yourself become.’ - e.e. cummings At the core of Breaking the Mould is the indomitable spirit of this year’s graduating students... Read more

ROOMS FULL OF MIRRORS | Probir Gupta
Anant Art in collaboration with Emami Art 2 - 30 Sep 2022 Emami Art, in collaboration with Anant Art, presents Room Full of Mirrors, a series of works by artist Probir Gupta. This is Probir’s major outing in his hometown Kolkata. The exhibition will show new paintings and installations and some critical earlier pieces. Probir dispenses with linear discourse and a representational... Read more

Simulacrum
28 Jul - 8 Aug 2022 In a field I am the absence of field. This is always the case. Wherever I am I am what is missing. When I walk I part the air and always the air moves in to fill the spaces where my body’s been. We all have reasons for moving. I... Read more

India Art Fair
28 Apr - 1 May 2022 Read more

REHANG
Curated by Uthra Rajgopal 21 - 31 Oct 2021 Textiles in contemporary art speak a powerful language. From a single thread to whole lengths of cloth, they transmit an aura which goes beyond words. And across South Asia, the magical qualities of thread have been known for thousands of years. In this exhibition, we encounter a journey of materials... Read more

Spiralling into the Absurd
11 - 28 Feb 2021 How many times do we wonder and ask ourselves the meaning of our lives, its purpose and the mysteries that surround it? One of the well-known depictions of the absurdity of our existence is found in Samuel Beckett’s two-act play, ‘Waiting for Godot’. Written in 1952, a time of changing... Read more

Telling Tales: A Journey into Narrative Forms
Curated by Aditi Ghildiyal 25 Feb 2020 - 15 Mar 2021 Since the beginning of time we’ve told stories through art. They become an important source of communication and in fact one can trace the trajectory of narrative art to understand how culture has evolved over the centuries. Storytelling is one of the most basic human tendencies. Earlier art was essentially... Read more

Online

SIMULACRUM {Anant Art X DAW}
24 - 31 Aug 2022 In a field I am the absence of field. This is always the case. Wherever I am I am what is missing. When I walk I part the air and always the air moves in to fill the spaces where my body’s been. We all have reasons for moving. I... Read more

Arrested Affections
Nilanjan Das 31 Mar - 5 May 2022 In his recent series “In search for a comfort zone” Nilanjan Das assumes the role of an urban planner, redefining and rectifying public spaces into aligning them with acceptable standards of morality. His works compel the viewers to re-look their surroundings, and identify the intangible markers of public surveillance hidden... Read more

Memory Keeper
Irfaan Channa 10 Feb - 10 Mar 2022 “To remember is to create, and, therefore, to remember is to be a poet” – Ocean Vuong Irfan Channa’s graphite artworks provide a direct semblance to the lyricism of poetry and fineness of a visual artist. For him, poetry becomes a medium through which he revisits his spatial memories before... Read more

The Blind Witness
Recent works by Rajnish Chhanesh 16 Dec 2021 - 16 Jan 2022 Across his new series titled Blind Witness, artist Rajnish Chhanesh takes on the role of a visual archivist illustrating the idiosyncrasies and fallacies of human society. These immensely intricate paintings retain his signature style of entwining contemporariness with traditional miniature paintings, but with a fresh take. Here the artist departs... Read more

A Song in Asides
works by Malavika Rajnarayan 11 Nov - 11 Dec 2021 Malavika Rajnarayan’s recent works, A Song in Asides, is a series of postcard-sized watercolours that have emerged from her travel and lived experiences. Each work translates into a line of poetry on paper and spills into larger, interconnected narratives that are stitched together by strokes of kantha embroidery. The works come together as surreal snippets, mirroring the reality of a dream. Read more

The Moon Bearer - A New Saga
Works by Abhishek Narayan Verma 14 Sep - 16 Oct 2021 The Moon Bearer: A New Saga underlines the existential concerns of the artist’s lived experiences during the initial lockdown of 2020. The first wave had turned the bustling city of Vadodara silent, propelling its inhabitants into involuntary isolation. The artist, confined in his studio, frequented the terrace at night for... Read more

RITUALISING THE DISFIGURED: MEMORIALS OF HEALING FROM SRI LANKA
CHATHURI NISSANSALA 12 Aug - 12 Sep 2021 Chathuri Nissansala’s artistic oeuvre furthers the inquiry raised by her mother, Shiromi. As a second-generation civilian, a witness to the civil war and its impact on contemporary politics and social culture, her multidisciplinary practice questions the subjects of nationalism, patriarchy, and religion in Sri Lanka. While investigating the complex politics... Read more

Her Mind Lives in a Palace
Recent works by Ekta Singha 5 Jul - 8 Aug 2021 Ekta Singha’s recent body of work continues her exploration with familial nostalgia and a yearning for a bygone era. As a second generation Bengali migrant from Bangladesh, Ekta delves into the collective memory of her family’s past to recreate a reservoir of memories, from which she extracts her imagery. The... Read more

Deserted Scapes
Works by Bhartti Verma 28 Jun - 27 Jul 2021 Bhartti Verma’s paintings have an immersive quality to them that serenade the viewer into her world. Suffused with mystery, her interiors show signs of habitation and abandonment at the same time, while giving us glimpse of the outside world, which seems equally distant and deserted. Known for her hyper realistic... Read more

..of Warps and Wefts
New Works by Dhara Mehrotra 8 Apr - 8 May 2021 ..of warps and wefts , recent works by Dhara Mehrotra, iterate a collision of science and art to explore a universe of possibilities, truths, and nature. Research studies indicate that one spoon of soil carries more living organisms than the entire human population on this planet. Dhara, intrigued and informed... Read more

PATRONUS
New Works by Pappu Bardhan 4 Mar - 4 Apr 2021 Pappu Bardhan's body of works explores burgeoning cityscapes that impact dwindling flora and fauna in these times. He imagines a Patronus, a corporeal guardian, in the image of a barasingha (swamp deer), that were found in abundance at the outskirts of Kolkata- his home city, in a hope to regain... Read more

Malhar
Curated by Chhavi Jain 20 Jul - 20 Aug 2020 Malhar: A lyrical exposition A journey into Malhar fashions an attempt to interlace the classical with contemporary visual forms. Within the realm of Indian mythology and legend, Malhar is one of the most ancient ragas in Hindustani classical music that, when sung, is believed to induce torrential rainfall. It has... Read more

The Nest
Curated by Aditi Ghildiyal 12 Jun - 12 Jul 2020 The exhibition explores the idea of the ‘Nest/Home’ in both its literal and metaphorical contexts. A home is a very intimate space and thus each of us have our own interpretation in regard to it. It has multiple connotations and can be seen as a place of shelter, comfort, security,... Read more

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