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Do I have any influences? asks artist Krishna Reddy,on a crisp morning at Delhis India International Centre. As his eyes dart from trees to the sunny patch on the grass,he makes up his mind and says,In my case,I am searching for nature. I was born in a village and we had no art centers,but somehow art became food of my mind. I need it all day, adds the 86-year-old master of intaglio printmaking,who was instrumental in developing a new printing process to produce multi-coloured prints,the technique of viscosity printing.
The US-based artist was in Delhi for a retrospective curated by Roobina Karode. Titled The Embodied Image. Krishna Reddy: A Retrospective,the exhibition at Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts (IGNCA),New Delhi, comprises around 150 works of the artist,from his early days as an art student in Santiniketan to subsequent phases in Chennai,Paris,London,and finally New York,where he taught art for almost 30 years at the New York University. He is a revolutionary figure in the history of printmaking. This exhibition is like a laboratory,with his works,printing press and metal tablets, says Karode,looking at the works that include his initial landscapes in watercolours to monochrome figures of the Bengal famine,meticulous etchings on metal tablets and paintings that were made when he was part of the printmaking group Atelier 17,in Paris.
Talk about the art mart irks him. Theres nothing wrong with reproductions but people try to make more and more and art has also become commercialised. This pressure of commercialism is destroying art, says the artist,who will soon pack his bags for the US.
The exhibition is on at Twin Art Gallery,ICV Mess,Janpath,IGNCA (Gate No.1),New Delhi,till January 21,2012,from 10 am to 5:30 pm
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