The artists in this exhibition are thrown into the middle of whole process of art making - a critique of stasis. - Aakriti Art Gallery- Kolkata

On the whole, the surmounted space, in a concealed manner bring about two kinds of subject positions in the Indian art world. First the confrontational and the heroic- outsider to the mainstream and its institutions who upheld a subversive revolutionary identity, and the second that verge on the self absorbed, whose reclusive symptoms manifest often through a disquieting expressionism by using the mode of abstractionist formalism.

Avadhesh Yadav    On the door    watercolour on paper    30 x 30 in    2021

To elucidate about distinct categorizations, we somewhat come upon some other kind of strain for any foreclosure to it as we have seen before has already proven disastrous and an incomplete study. an entire generation of gutsy, anxious and aspirational artists came into their own in a heroic attempt to find a language. We however account for the uncritical rather intent reading of the present, are we in urgent need of a critical apparatus, one capable of reinventing the possibility of a meaningful engagement with the irresolute and exciting works of the present. The artists in this exhibition are thrown into the middle of whole process of art making - a critique of stasis. They do not begin at the beginning or end at the end. Instead of drawing out the character this exhibition titled ‘An Intersection of The Timeless Moment’ mainly makes a selective attempt to re-embrace some of these artists that helped in producing a body of invigorating abstract- expressionistic language in Indian Contemporary Art.

For more details about the show, please get in touch with Komal Jaiswal at artshop@aakritiartgallery.com / The show can also be viewed at www.aakritiartgallery.com

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