TRAVELLING IN TWO BOATS AT THE SAME TIME

July 15 - August 31 , 2016

Curator - Justin Ponmany
In post ‘Emergency’ aftermath, baring visible leanings towards left of centre generally, the work of the artists leading into the eighties, alongside parallel cinema and theatre, was bound by a propensity for social critique. The personality of these aesthetic productions oscillate within such a bandwidth even, in the positions taken: both in a political as well as art making ideological sense. Formal boundaries one draws are at tension then, as one pushes the envelope towards an inward or outward emphasis, cognizant of the overtures such an article might make. Means to an end therefore, may or may not be assigned with an end within itself. The legacy of both streams -what is otherwise miscible in many ways- curiously find preference and influence in partisan manner through groups or regions across time. Inevitably the recurring simultaneity in contemporaneity, whether close or far, might be traced by those inquisitive about parallel trajectories along the lines of facial symmetry, as they mirror and rival each other through binary positions along a timeline.
 

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Mid-Day 17th July 2016
The Hindu, 15 July 2016
Verve, August 2016

Nalini Malani, Stories Retold I, Reverse Painting – Acrylic, Enamel & Ink on Acrylic Sheet, 90 x 60 inches, 2007

Gieve Patel, Bicyclist in the Field, Oil on Canvas, 66 x 40 inches, 1979

N N Rimzon, Untitled, Acrylic on Canvas, 40 x 40 inches

Nalini Malani, Family of Street Performers, Watercolour on Paper, 21 x 13 inches, 1988

Sudhir Patwardhan, New Construction at Rabodi, Acrylic on Canvas, 36 x 48 inches, 2006

N N Rimzon, Untitled, Acrylic & Charcoal on Paper, 22 x 28 inches

Jyothi Basu, Gap of Power, Pastel on Paper, 17 x 29.5 inches, 2000

Gulam Mohhamed Sheikh, Untitled: Kerala Series, Watercolour & Gouache on Paper, 15.5 x 12 inches

Bhupen Khakhar, Man on Beach, Watercolour on Paper, 13.5 x 9.5 inches

Bhupen Khakhar, Shirt with Landscape, Watercolour on Paper, 16 x 12 inches

Bhupen Khakhar, Untitled, Ink on Paper, 9 x 12 inches, 1980's

Bhupen Khakhar, Untitled, Ink on Paper, 9 x 12 inches, 1980's

G Ravinder Reddy, Untitled, Oil on Ceramic, 21 x 10 x 15 inches

Dhruva Mistry, Sitting Bull, Artists' Proof, Aluminium Hydroxide, Epoxy Resin and Fiberglass, 35 x 26 x 42 inches, 2003 - 2016

Vivan Sundaram, Carcass, Charcoal on Paper, 21.5 x 29.5 inches, 1990

Vivan Sundaram, Land’s End, Charcoal on Paper, 11.5 x 15 inches, 1988

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