: Art and India at 75: An exhibit for and by the people captures resilience and the cracks within #IndiaNEWS The mechanical regularity of anniversaries and the emptiness of spectacles have a tendency

@IndiaNEWS

Posted in: #IndiaNEWS

Art and India at 75: An exhibit for and by the people captures resilience and the cracks within #IndiaNEWS
The mechanical regularity of anniversaries and the emptiness of spectacles have a tendency to produce a false sense of nostalgia and consensus. With celebrations for the 75 years of India’s independence approaching, the Safdar Hashmi Memorial Trust, or Sahmat, asked artists and writers to take stock of the occasion, what consensus it brings and what it excludes from the larger moral fabric of India. The outcome is a major exhibition of more than 250 works of art on display at New Delhi’s Jawahar Bhawan from July 2 to August 15.The exhibition’s curatorial vision is strikingly innovative for many reasons. First, is the choice of coarse jute sacks used as display mounts for unframed canvases. The austere aesthetic is not only at odds with the showy world of commercial galleries, but also resonant with socialist values in defence of a material threatened by obsolescence as global markets shift to other packing materials. Second, the placement of visual and literary works next to each other fosters a dynamic exchange of meaning within a larger field of artistic practice, rather than in bifurcated realms of appreciation. In fact, writing forms a major element in many of the artworks, which elicit a form of audience engagement based...Read more

Intraday stocks under 50 NSE India Twitter of India

Vote Up Vote Down

Login to post a comment!