Delhi: Vadehra Art Gallery's upcoming show unravels the different dimensions of love

Set in a sunny Italian countryside, Luca Guadagnino's Call Me By Your Name (2017) is the intense but short-lived tale of its teenage protagonist Elio's (Timothée Chalamet) summer of love. Elio's affair with the spunky Oliver (Armie Hammer) plays out like a classic coming-of-age tale. For the young Elio, a life-altering romance, passion and loss in quick succession are reminders of the transformative nature of love. Due to open on 21 July, Vadehra Art Gallery's upcoming group exhibition is inspired by Guadagnino's acclaimed film. Also titled 'Call Me By Your Name', it has been conceptualized by art collector Udit Bhambri and explores, as he puts it, "aspects of how a relationship has the possibility to complete us. This could be a relationship of any kind, with another or with oneself." Once the idea was finalized, the New Delhi–based gallery and Bhambri invited several artists, including familiar names like Anju and Atul Dodiya, Sudhir Patwardhan, Shilpa Gupta, Arpita Singh, Sunil Gupta, N.S. Harsha and Gieve Patel, to reflect on love and its multiple connotations. 

20 July 2021