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The pandemic constant: A new art exhibition explores the idea of home and its beings
1 / 12How do we perceive our home and our living in there? A new art exhibition, on till May 23, 2021, explores visual world of the home as a physical space having both an exterior and an interior — with all its magic, hope and memories — in villages and towns; In Image, couple embracing by Sadequain. (Source: PR Handout)
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2 / 12Curated by Kishore Singh, the exhibition is named 'An Exhibition on the Places We Occupy in The House and in Our Mind'. The artworks are on display at DAG, The Claridges, New Delhi and in the Viewing Room on the gallery website (dagworld.com); Feni Dreams by Amit Ambalal. (Source: PR Handout)
3 / 12It covers the simplicity as well as the complexity of lives within the jurisdiction of the home — women at their toilette, gazing out of the window or gossiping in a group; figures working in their library, engaged in household work, or as parents bathing children; a family posing together or feuding over a game of cards, food or egos; and those fighting tyranny or painted as embracing lovers; Games by Gogi Saroj Pal (Source: PR Handout)
4 / 12Featuring a diverse selection of homescapes, still-life compositions, pastoral lives and bourgeoise preoccupations, moments beautiful and ugly, life hurried or indolent, personal space, and the lives within these homes, much before the lockdown caused us to evaluate the place that became central to life itself, the exhibition, beginning with new art practices from the late nineteenth century onwards, is an ode to the place most of us regard as our refuge and sanctuary; Flame of Love by M A R Chughtai. (Source: PR Handout)
5 / 12Consisting of rare works by the masters, one of the highlights includes a delightful sketchbook by M V Dhurandhar that documented his wife (or wives, following the death of his first spouse) over a period of four decades — the ultimate homage the artist pays to his spouse and to a place called home; Olympia by Anupam Sud. (Source: PR Handout)
6 / 12An Untitled (Portrait of a Young Indian Girl) by M Bulkley. (Source: PR Handout)
7 / 12The selected works include some of India’s best-known artists, others who are somewhat lesser known, and a handful whose names remain unknown to us; Untitled a. by M F Husain. (Source: PR Handout)
8 / 12“Our homes are central to our existence and society, being the reason for shaping towns and countries, civilisations and histories. As we trawled through our inventory, we discovered that artists had explored ‘home’ in so many ways—the interiority of the mind as well as the interiority of a lived space,” said Ashish Anand, DAG CEO and Managing Director; Untitled by K G Subramanyan. (Source: PR Handout)
9 / 12“A home means different things to different people based on their own experiences, but no one is immune to it. It can excite passion, obsessiveness, ownership, love, even hatred, but never indifference”, noted Anand; Untitled by Radha Charan Bagchi. (Source: PR Handout_
10 / 12Divided into five sections, the span covers One’s Own Homestead, Pastoral Lives and Living, The Glimpsed Interior, The Life Bourgeoisie and Intimations of Intimacy through a careful selection; Untitled by Sobha Singh. (Source: PR Handout)
11 / 12There are 130 works of art and 76 artists including Nandalal Bose, Sakti Burman, Chittaprosad, Indra Dugar, Nemai Ghosh, M F Husain, Rabin Mondal, K C S Paniker, Gogi Saroj Pal, Jamini Roy, P T Reddy, S G Thakar Singh, F N Souza and many more; Untitled by Somnath Hore. (Source: PR Handout)
12 / 12Apart from being on view at its galleries and museums, DAG has been responsible for sharing their works with viewers at biennales such as Kochi-Muziris and Shanghai, as well as at international fairs such as Art Basel Hong Kong, Armory New York, Art Dubai, Masterpiece London and India Art Fair. Conferences, discussions and other programming has been part of these initiatives; Woman Under the Shower by Paritosh Sen. (Source: PR Handout)
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