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."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.
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