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A Lick of Night in the Morning
Vadehra Art Gallery is pleased to present a compelling group exhibition featuring prominent contemporary artists Anju Dodiya, Atul Dodiya, Balkrishna Doshi, Gieve Patel, N.S. Harsha, Sudhir Patwardhan and Ranbir Kaleka titled A Lick of Night in the Morning, curated by writer and curator Dipti Anand. The exhibition will be on display at our contemporary gallery from 27 September to 28 October 2022.
A Lick of Night in the Morning considers how the fleeting existence of time has occupied the imaginations across cultures and fuelled obsessions with relevancy and practice 鈥� how to mark it, tame it, overpower it, and outlive it. Even as the intellect reigns in parsing and piecing together our daily cognitions, only the sensory possession of the world can cause delight in us 鈥� and suddenly a fleeting existence of time becomes populated by a flurry of impressions, which when secured together give us a fabric of selfhood. Moreover, it is not beauty itself but our response to beauty 鈥� its equal presence and absence 鈥� that commands our sensitivity, which is a perspective inherent in an artist鈥檚 relativist approach to material, subject and form. In itself, a state of overwhelm is chaotic sublime, a kind of sensory overload where the intensification of experience, through things of 鈥渂eauty鈥�, must somehow be managed. As the debate ensues, we may pause for a moment to consider: within the framework of twenty-first century aesthetics, how might we read a curation of artworks that prompt sensorial interactions as their content?
The show features particular contributions that communicate presence and power in their storytelling, each presenting a subversive approach to beauty, discovered in the myth of the moment in which they were created. While the locus of creativity on display shifts in radius and magnitude, we must remain vigilant to a second-hand experience, of forethoughts now as afterthoughts, as these artworks settle in sensory stipulation and convey an aesthetic legacy that begins with the loss of a moment, captured vitally through a brushstroke, a pen, a carefully placed nail.
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Vadehra Art Gallery is pleased to present a compelling group exhibition featuring prominent contemporary artists Anju Dodiya, Atul Dodiya, Balkrishna Doshi, Gieve Patel, N.S. Harsha, Sudhir Patwardhan and Ranbir Kaleka titled A Lick of Night in the Morning, curated by writer and curator Dipti Anand. The exhibition will be on display at our contemporary gallery from 27 September to 28 October 2022.
A Lick of Night in the Morning considers how the fleeting existence of time has occupied the imaginations across cultures and fuelled obsessions with relevancy and practice 鈥� how to mark it, tame it, overpower it, and outlive it. Even as the intellect reigns in parsing and piecing together our daily cognitions, only the sensory possession of the world can cause delight in us 鈥� and suddenly a fleeting existence of time becomes populated by a flurry of impressions, which when secured together give us a fabric of selfhood. Moreover, it is not beauty itself but our response to beauty 鈥� its equal presence and absence 鈥� that commands our sensitivity, which is a perspective inherent in an artist鈥檚 relativist approach to material, subject and form. In itself, a state of overwhelm is chaotic sublime, a kind of sensory overload where the intensification of experience, through things of 鈥渂eauty鈥�, must somehow be managed. As the debate ensues, we may pause for a moment to consider: within the framework of twenty-first century aesthetics, how might we read a curation of artworks that prompt sensorial interactions as their content?
The show features particular contributions that communicate presence and power in their storytelling, each presenting a subversive approach to beauty, discovered in the myth of the moment in which they were created. While the locus of creativity on display shifts in radius and magnitude, we must remain vigilant to a second-hand experience, of forethoughts now as afterthoughts, as these artworks settle in sensory stipulation and convey an aesthetic legacy that begins with the loss of a moment, captured vitally through a brushstroke, a pen, a carefully placed nail.
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