The show was curated by Surbhi Modi. The exhibition showcased the artworks and installation of eight artists.
The exhibition celebrates Bacon’s notion of the ordered chaos, where the aesthetic and the anaesthetic are constantly at odds and where abstraction fights figuration, leaving us with an altered reality, which has some semblance of the familiar, yet the intrigue of the new.
The title Beauty in the Beast is a Shrek-like take on the fairy tale where the ugly duckling does not become a swan, the ugly beast does not metamorphose into a handsome prince but where we brazenly glorify the grotesque.
Anant Mishra drawings meander between the dualities of human and animal, abstraction and figuration, arrogating mythical beasts and fantastical characters whereas Bhuwal Prasad’s vibrant, anarchic canvases exhort images of a familiar haze. Mangesh’s video installation combines the luxury of velvet felt with the bad-tempered of sound and video that show a delicate balance of a beast and a flower that move in a kaleidoscopic manner. His surrealistic pencil drawings are both humorous and insightful, and reflect the musings of a very wise child.
Rajesh’s exquisite miniatures pay homage to Klimt but bring his own brand of melancholic nonchalance, to the forefront. Nayanna Kanoria’s oils show zebras in a living room.
The exhibition celebrates Bacon’s notion of the ordered chaos, where the aesthetic and the anaesthetic are constantly at odds and where abstraction fights figuration, leaving us with an altered reality, which has some semblance of the familiar, yet the intrigue of the new.
The title Beauty in the Beast is a Shrek-like take on the fairy tale where the ugly duckling does not become a swan, the ugly beast does not metamorphose into a handsome prince but where we brazenly glorify the grotesque.
Anant Mishra drawings meander between the dualities of human and animal, abstraction and figuration, arrogating mythical beasts and fantastical characters whereas Bhuwal Prasad’s vibrant, anarchic canvases exhort images of a familiar haze. Mangesh’s video installation combines the luxury of velvet felt with the bad-tempered of sound and video that show a delicate balance of a beast and a flower that move in a kaleidoscopic manner. His surrealistic pencil drawings are both humorous and insightful, and reflect the musings of a very wise child.
Rajesh’s exquisite miniatures pay homage to Klimt but bring his own brand of melancholic nonchalance, to the forefront. Nayanna Kanoria’s oils show zebras in a living room.