The exhibition will display works by 29 contemporary artists, working with myriad mediums from digital prints, to pigment paint based studies, photographs, videos, watercolour, textile, scrolls, ink and much more
Lavanya Mani's The Fool, natural dye, pigment paint and machine embroidery on cotton fabric
A one of a kind art show, Modus Operandi, has been devised with the purpose of bringing together artists and showcasing their methods of art making. The exhibition will display works by 29 contemporary artists, working with myriad mediums from digital prints, to pigment paint based studies, photographs, videos, watercolour, textile, scrolls, ink and much more. The show is the brainchild of Shireen Gandhy, gallery director and the Chemould team. Among the artists whose works will be seen are Aditi Singh, Dhruvi Acharya, Mithu Sen, and Shilpa Gupta, to name a few.
The show is aimed at building and nurturing the next generation of collectors, and towards that end, each work has been priced reasonably. Gandhy says, "The concept required us to look at artists who have established museum careers. One of the things we therefore asked our senior artists was to look at work that was not only at a lower price point, but also that which exemplifies process, giving a behind-the-scene entry point into the work."
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Untitled, etching by Tanuja Rane
Zeroing down on the final artists required different approaches for each work. "For some artists, we literally asked them to delve into their archives — as in the case of a Desmond Lazaro — while for Anju (Dodiya) and Aditi (Singh) among others, gave studies, drawings that went into making other work." The exhibition will have on display Lazaro's verse from Bhagavarta Purana in pigment paint, while Singh will be showing an ink washi on paper. Gandhy continues, "In the case of Dhruvi Acharya, we thought of using her drawings and making a wallpaper out of it. Dhruvi's archive is, in fact, notebooks and notebooks filled with drawings. So, instead of keeping those as note books, we created a
wallpaper."
The show, Gandhy says, aims at throwing light on what we don't see when we see a work of art. "The special pigment that Desmond uses is completely made by him, the buffalo milk and river water can also be an artist's ingredients, as in the case of Lavanya Mani. It goes to show how much exists beyond oil on canvas," she adds.
When: 11 am to 7 pm,
Till July 28
Where: Chemould Prescott Road, Queens Mansion, Fort
Call: 22000211
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