Past
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CONJUNCTIONS : SURUCHI CHOKSI
Art Exposure - Lake Terrace, Kolkata 7 Dec 2024 - 2 Feb 2025 What connects us to each other, to the world, and to ourselves? In Conjunctions, Suruchi Choksi offers a profound meditation on the interwoven nature of existence,exploring themes of interdependence, impermanence, and the illusory boundaries between self and other. Rooted in philosophical inquiries and influenced by the artist's spiritual practice, the... Read more -
IN ANOTHER TIME THAT IS NOW : AMITAVA
Bikaner House, New Delhi 8 - 19 Nov 2024 In the ancient premise of myth, existence was eternalized as an artists' metaphysics. The Creator's yearning to be simply as mere appearance. The world, jusfied purely as aesthetic phenomenon Of Time as a becoming, 'as a copy of the primal unity, as the musical mirror of the world,’ 'as the... Read more -
Miracle of Absence : The Embrace of Time
Art Exposure - Lake Terrace, Kolkata 27 Sep - 26 Nov 2024 ABIR KARMAKAR | AMITAVA | ANANDAJIT RAY | BAARAAN IJLAL | BUDDHADEV MUKHERJEE | CHITTROVANU MAZUMDAR | RATHEESH T | RICKY VASAN | SHAMBHAVI | T VENKANNA The opening of Art Exposure's new space marks the quickening of the spirit of the contemporary in the city of Kolkata. Playing upon... Read more -
INTO THE HALF LIGHT AND SHADOW GO I : JOGEN CHOWDHURY
SNOWBALL STUDIOS, MUMBAI 5 - 25 Nov 2023 The title, ‘Into The Half Light and Shadow Go I’, is the opening line from the Bodh (Sensation) which functions as a gateway to the curatorial framework of this show. It anchors the art of Jogen Chowdhury to the tradition of informed, and self-reflexive artistic responses to the human condition.... Read more -
Into the Half Light and Shadow Go I : Jogen Chowdhury
Bikaner House, New Delhi 8 Mar - 2 Apr 2023 Jogen Chowdhury's art, for all its stylistic and thematic diversities, adheres to a consuming passion distinguished by the sensory attributes central to most of his works. His art, in retrospect, reveal a certain attentiveness, especially to human condition and its organic affinity to nature, analogous to the evocatively pensive poems... Read more -
In My Fever Dream : VIRAJ KHANNA
Bikaner House, New Delhi 2 - 11 Dec 2022 In a fever dream, you may experience more intense emotions, more bizarre narratives, distorted sensory perception, and vastly different environments from real life than in your normal dreams. Keen observation of his environment and a profound impression left by significant social interactions continue to shape Viraj Khanna’s practice as an... Read more -
The compulsive act : Jogen Chowdhury
Art Exposure, Kolkata 15 Oct - 17 Dec 2022 Jogen Chowdhury’s drawings are truly revealing in the sense that they embody a compelling truth an artist aspires for. The truth in this context is multi-layered. It is about an artist’s unremitting visual encounter with the world around and it is also about bringing to the paper what is already... Read more -
Perceptive Oscillations : ASIM PAUL
Bikaner House, New Delhi 16 - 25 Sep 2022 Alternating between memory and perception lies Asim’s pursuit as an artist. Born in Naihati (the birth place also of Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay), his family had migrated to Bengal after the partition. But Asim has a distinct impression of his early childhood visiting the other side which was also once his... Read more -
Memory Leaves : Viraag Desai | Rid Burman | Radhika Agarwala
Art Exposure, Kolkata 15 Apr - 31 Jul 2022 All three artists have international pedagogic journeys and they manifest their learning through a unique sensibility. Rid Burman presents photograms created in the dynamics of dark room drama in Paris. Colour for Burman is about an evocative mood of emotion.After shooting an array of fashion sequences for elite magazines, his... Read more -
What My Mother Didn’t Teach Me : Viraj Khanna
Loft, Kolkata 13 - 22 Mar 2021 Growing up surrounded by art, especially textiles and embroidery has helped me develop a certain aesthetic when it comes to the way I see and create things. Embroidery work and textile involves putting different materials, fabrics and and other elements together to express certain feelings, perceptions or visions. Transmuting to... Read more -
An Unfinished Poem : Jogen Chowdhury
Art Exposure, Kolkata 18 Dec 2020 - 6 Feb 2021 The current exhibition with works made through the pandemic months of stillness reiterates what the artist has always expressed about his practice, that the distortion of the painted figure and posture is a deliberate ploy to show the complexity that exists within a man and in his relationship with the... Read more -
A MECHANICAL EYE : Viraag Desai
Art Exposure, Kolkata 11 Sep - 30 Oct 2020 In this solo exhibition the Kolkata- and Mumbai-based artist Viraag Desai employs his multidisciplinary experience of working as a sound and set designer, to create mix-media collages and an immersive installation that reveal our historical engrossment insupplementing our vision with a view to ‘capture’ the world. The ways of seeing... Read more -
Occupying Spaces : Ghana Shyam Latua
Art Exposure, Kolkata 22 Aug - 5 Sep 2018 Occupying Spaces looks at the engulfment of land today due to rapid urbanization, both metaphorically and conceptually in the works of Ghana Shyam Latua. These set of works generates a dialogue between land as space and how he perceives the process of occupying those spaces. Ghana Shyam is from a... Read more -
Hier Die Wolken : Andrea Zust
Art Exposure, Kolkata 1 - 15 Feb 2018 At the center of the exhibition 'Hier die Wolken” ('Here the clouds!') sits Andreas Zust's (1947-2000), Fluoreszierende Nebelmeere (Fluorescent Seas of Fog ) from the series Himmel (Sky) which the artist photographed in the late 1970s and especially in 1999/2000, shortly before his death. The pictures show optical and meteorological... Read more
