EXHIBITIONS

Ram Kumar and Susanta Mandal | Reflected Verses II

D-40 Defence Colony, New Delhi 22 October - 19 November 2016 Continuing our series of conversations between artists, we bring together works by Susanta Mandal and Ram Kumar. The exhibition presents two takes on the grid, the device that art historian Rosalind Krauss declared as the ‘modernity of modern art’. Landscape in Ram Kumar’s works is distilled into a grid of... Read more

Juul Kraijer | Drawings and Photographs

D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 22 October - 19 November 2016 Read more

Arpita Singh and Shilpa Gupta | Reflected Verses

D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 5 - 15 October 2016 The exhibition sets up an inter-generational dialogue between two artists Arpita Singh and Shilpa Gupta on mapping spaces, memories and objects. Like the title of the exhibition 'Reflected Verses', which is taken from the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova’s homage to her fellow writer Boris Pasternak, artworks take on new dimensions... Read more

Praneet Soi | For and Against Narrative

D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 30 September - 29 October 2016 For and Against Narrative emerges from a conversation the artist posits between the constructed image and the gestural. Having immersed himself for years in working with media imagery, he shifts back to the hand in this new body of work to rethink political praxis. It is a detour, designed not... Read more

Sachin George Sebastian | Sites of Metamorphosis

D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 24 July - 20 August 2016 The city and its mysterious power on the lives of individuals is the idea at the crux of Sachin’s explorations in his solo Sites of Metamorphosis. The city takes residence within individuals who constitute it, permeating their bodies with its own materiality which the individuals carry forward into the future... Read more

A. Ramachandran | Earthen Pot: Image Poems 2016

D-40 Defence Colony, New Delhi 21 April - 15 July 2016 ‘Earthen Pot - Image Poems 2016’ is an exhibition of twenty-one drawings by artist A Ramachandran. The works were made in North America, on one of the artist’s visits to the country. Ramachandran refers to his earlier series of works on Udaipur and recreates aspects of fertility, memory, through landscapes... Read more

William Dalrymple | The Writer's Eye

D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 29 March - 20 April 2016 In a suite of black and white photographs, shot over two years, William Dalrymple brings elegance, inquiry and grace to the photographic form. Powerful and precise, the pictures in The Writer’s Eye are documents of landscape, conveying potent solitude and brooding strokes. The beloved author of scores of acclaimed books... Read more

Krishen Khanna | Drawings and Paintings

D-40 Defence Colony, New Delhi 4 March - 12 April 2016 Krishen Khanna is perhaps one of the most versatile modernist of our times, whose life and art has borne witness to some of the most turbulent times of India’s political history. Khanna grew up in pre-partition Lahore, before moving to England, to study at the Imperial Service College on a... Read more

Shilpa Gupta

D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 25 January - 22 February 2016 A compelling solo exhibition by Shilpa Gupta showing three projects from her recent body of works. These works have travelled to several prestigious venues internationally and are being shown in Delhi for the first time. The exhibition is framed in two parts consisting of two separate works, with a third... Read more