It underlines a significant aspect of the globally shining contemporary Indian art: the way several mid career and highly talented artists have easily accomplished the making of (bodily) forms. They have tackled issues of feminism as well as post structural thought, informed by Indian modernity. They’re the products of the global art residency, and many museum and gallery shows, as well as the intense activity that forms core of the thriving Indian art scene.
The artists on view represent a segment of leading artists who have emerged from different schools of thought and practice. In their paintings and sculpture, the human body, its parts and its gestures extends into multiple spheres, of aspiration, desire and narratives of the self.
In each of the artists the narratives and readings are multiple and complex. Their engagement with a rapidly globalizing India, and how the country locates itself in the growing city, is one of the sub themes. In the process partial stories, memory and the free associations of the mind come into play. ‘Terrestial Bodies’ well amplifies this fact.
- Chittrovanu Mazumdar represents a dovetailing of late modernism with sculptural installation. He uses light, dramatic atmosphere and a theatrical mise-en-scene to stage his work.
- Shibu Natesan works in an apparently photorealist style even as he compels the viewer to search his painting and locate in it psychological meaning.
- Anju Dodiya’s narrative painting invariably involves aspects of her self, and set out a psychological template of womanhood.
- Mithu Sen who teases out shades of surreal meaning from forms, creates veiled meaning through visual provocation.
- Jagannath Panda completely alters scale and injects an element of imaginative play in his interpretation of the natural world.
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