Aicon Gallery Presents Figure/ Landscape - Part Two In London & New York 12/3-1/9

Aicon Gallery, London is pleased to present Figure/ Landscape Part Two, the second part of our successful New York show. The show features some of India's most prominent modernist painters, all well-known for their explorations of both the figurative and the landscape. Landscape, the figurative and also the figure located in landscape occupy Indian modernist artists signficantly more so than in the European or the North American modernist tradition. In part this is down to a refusal on the part of most artists to commit totally to abstraction, unlike say, their European counterparts. And in part, the continued references to figure and the landscape seem to be a way of asserting a national identity to the modernist experiments Indian artists undertook at the time.

The figure of the common man or woman ensconced in a native landscape can be understood as an articulation of indigenous modernism. Typical is the artist Sudhir Patwardhan's aim which he described as "to make figures that can become self-images for the people who are the subject of my work." Or as Geeta Kapur wrote in "Contemporary Indian Artists": "The sense of community belongs as much to the past as to the future."

This two-part exhibition staged in New York and London aims to tease this points out through the presentation of works from across the twentieth-century (and some, indeed from the current century). Landscape and figure are the pivots for the project - a number of works show the figure dissolving into, or being almost a constituent part of the landscape. Other works veer towards being wholly landscape and some others, being almost wholly figurative.

Private View:
Thursday 2nd December
6:30 - 9pm
Aicon Gallery London
8 Heddon Street
W1B 4BU

Exhibition Dates:
3rd December - 9th January, 2011

Locations:
AICON GALLERY, NEW YORK
35 Great Jones Street
New York, NY 10012
212-725-6092

AICON GALLERY, LONDON
8 Heddon Street
London W1B 4BU
+44 20.7734.7575

For more information please visit www.aicongallery.com.