EXHIBITIONS

B.V. Suresh | Chronicles of Silence (Khamoshi ki Daastan)

D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 3 - 31 December 2015 In his second solo at the Vadehra Art Gallery in Delhi, B.V. Suresh transforms the gallery space into a spectacular if dystopian landscape of the contemporary, creating a veritable ‘Animal Farm’ of grunting and snuffling pig noises, radio speeches, kinetic machines, crashing weights, radars and laser beams. The sculpture of... Read more

OFF THE RECORD: Meditations on the Photographic Image | Curated by Vidya Shivadas

D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 28 October - 2 December 2015 This exhibition brings together a group of nine artists who have diverse engagements with the medium of photography within their practice. The presence of photography, both latent and manifest, has been a condition of artistic production since the early 20th century. And since the 1970s, in the post medium era... Read more

Arpita Singh | Works on paper

D-40 Defence Colony, New Delhi 28 October - 2 December 2015 This exhibition offers an extraordinary opportunity to view sketches, drawings and watercolours by Arpita Singh. Among India’s most outstanding artists, Singh is known for her enigmatic works, which offer a complex and highly engaging view of the world through the prism of her city, Delhi. On view will be, for... Read more

Sumedh Rajendran | Split Distance

D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 9 - 24 October 2015 The exhibition Split Distance brings together Rajendran’s recent series of sculptures and drawings where he explores ideas of space and materiality. Working with materials like laminates, wood, iron lattice works (jalis) , and glass, he builds bold assemblages that bring into focus the endurance of these materials in our domestic... Read more

Rakhi Peswani | In Continuum

D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 3 September - 5 October 2015 The exhibition showcases four different series of works, executed since 2011, up until 2015. Some of these works have graphic, linear quality of drawing, and a few others, voluminous three-dimensionality. The works are executed and installed, occupying three-dimensional space, floor, walls, ceiling, and are accompanied with soundscapes. These works evolved... Read more

Zakkir Hussain | Translating the Silence

D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 3 September - 5 October 2015 Zakkir Hussain’s current body of works emerge from his need to expose the structural biases that exists in human societies that allows for exploitation of the weak and misrepresentation of their contribution to the larger workings of the system thereby keeping differences in check. Hierarchies have been ruthlessly enforced in... Read more

Chameli Ramachandran | Nirmalya

D-40 Defence Colony, New Delhi 12 August - 14 September 2015 Chameli Ramachandran strikes a distinct note in Indian art. She transmutes her keen observation of nature to a meditative study through her sensitive, fluid brushwork. The flower studies and the landscapes that she has done over the last few years bear ample testimony to her singular approach to natural objects... Read more

Impulses In Drawing

D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 16 July - 25 August 2015 Impulses in Drawing investigates the need to draw and the pleasure derived from the act. It is an exercise in understanding and philosophizing the process, the physicality and the temporality of making a drawing. It also seeks to trace, to perceive, to make, to reorder based on what artworks take... Read more

Karl Blossfeldt | Art Forms in Nature

D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 24 April - 18 May 2015 This exhibition is presented in partnership with Tasveer. A self-taught photographer, and professor at the Royal School of the Museum of Decorative Arts in Berlin, Karl Blossfeldt (1865–1932) is recognised for his extensive and unique photographic plant portraits, created to support his argument that all forms created by man, have... Read more

Susanta Mandal | Hard Copy

D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 17 April - 18 May 2015 Susanta Mandal’s kinetic installations combine light, shadow, movement and stillness, mechanical constructions and human imagery. Theseries on show at Hard Copy is a meditation on the image and the way we remember, equally the experience of forgetting. In the last few years Mandal has been increasingly working with the Magic... Read more

Anjolie Ela Menon | Recent Works

D-40 Defence Colony, New Delhi 27 March - 7 May 2015 Anjolie Ela Menon returns after a gap of five years with a landmark collection of her recent works. Many of these paintings can be deemed to be ‘Vintage Menon’, with the strong use of iconography, layered surfaces and the metaphorical use of motif. What is clearly noticeable in this exhibition... Read more

EXCAVATION / ERUPTION | Curated by Yashodhara Dalmia

D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 25 February - 25 March 2015 In the excavations of the past there was an unearthing of discoveries which added to the existing knowledge of humanity and civilizations. In the great Mesopotamian arc or the Indus valley, the archaeologists of earlier times looked at the smallest terracotta figurine or the tiniest coin to discover vast tracts... Read more

S.H. Raza | Aarambh

D-40 Defence Colony, New Delhi 12 February - 15 March 2015 Aarambh, SH Raza’s latest solo show from 22nd February to 18th March, 2015. Created between 2014 and 2015, this series of new work is a presentation of a number of luminous works that the master has been painting recently. It coincides with his completion of 93 years of age and... Read more