Art Alert | Exhibits on our Radar

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Summer is past us, and it’s time to get out of the cool confines of our air-conditioned rooms, as the upcoming art season beckons a cultural fiesta. Galleries which remained fairly staid through the summer are back in action with incredibly interesting exhibits, featuring works across mediums and disciplines.

While there’s a lot to see, our in-house art guide Anubha Jain picked exhibits that she found most enticing. Get ready to get art-ed out this season.

 

EXHIBIT 320 |

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Current Exhibit | The Possibility of Being

The Possibility of Being is a curatorial engagement featuring Ashim Purkayasta, Jagannath Panda, Muktinath Mondal, Nataraj Sharma and Rekha Rodwittiya, all of whom are immersed in image making with a constant dialogue with Painting and Drawing, both in terms of medium and practice. The curation is dedicated to {re} exploring linkages between the image, the socio-political and painterly practices as we come to the end of an era which was {is being} called Contemporary.

Address | F-320, Lado Sarai; Contact no. | +91 11 46130637; Email | exhibit320@gmail.com

Timings | Monday - Saturday {10.30am - 6.30pm}


LATITUDE 28 |

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Current Exhibit | Diver Cities by Bhavna Kakar {Opens 27th August}

This exhibition brings together artists from different geographical and cultural zones into a single exhibition space. It seeks to understand contemporary India via its new urban spaces as a starting point, and further seeks to fathom the concurrent diverse social, economic and cultural tempers, as a source of multi-valiantly layered experiences.

It offers an insight into how art today becomes an exciting statement of the cultural diversity that diverse geographies are distinctive of.

Address | F 208, Ground Floor, Lado Sarai; Contact no. | +91-11-46791111/+91-9310830690; Emaillatitude28@gmail.com

Timings | Monday - Saturday {11am - 7pm}


NATURE MORTE |

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Coming Soon | Disruptions by Asim Waqif 

‘Disruptions’ emphasizes the corrupt, misused, and degenerate aspects of our civic spaces. The exhibition will include sculptures, installations, videos and photographic relief constructions. In all, Asim Waqif approaches the concept of the “leftover” as his inspiration, while investigating issues of public and private memories, sustainability and recycling residual spaces and illogical bureaucracies.

Address | A 1, Niti Bagh, Opposite Kamla Nehru College; Contact no. | +91-11-41740215; Email | info@naturemorte.com

Timings | Monday - Saturday {10am - 6pm}

 

TASVEER GALLERY |

Karen Knorr, India Song | Opens on the 27th of September

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This exhibition presents 30 new works from Karen Knorr’s India Song series. The photographs pay homage to the beauty and power of Indian architectural spaces, especially Rajput and Mughal styles. However, these spaces become the unexpected settings for a variety of animals – picked from Indian sanctuaries, jungles and folkloric narrative. They act to blur the boundaries between reality and illusion - creating photographs of ambiguity, but also of majesty.

Address | The Oberoi Hotel, Zakir Hussain Marg, New Delhi ; Contact no. | +91 98713 81167

Timings | Monday - Saturday {11am - 7pm}

 

DELHI ART GALLERY 

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Current Exhibit | Indian Portraits - The Face of a People {24th September onwards}

Indian Portraits documents 250 years of Indian portraiture with over 400 works by about 150 artists ranging from Raja Ravi Varma, Pestonji Bomanji, Jamini Roy, FN Souza, and Rabindranath Tagore. This historical exhibition, besides depicting the key catalytic moments and turns over centuries, also records the Indian elite, the royal families, the women of India, saints and sinners, national leaders and historical figures, as well as members of the artists’ intimate circle of friends and family.

Address | 11, Hauz Khas Village, New Delhi; Contact no. | +91 - 11 - 46005300; Email | info@delhiartgallery.com

Timings | Monday - Saturday {11am - 7pm}