America
Delhi Art Gallery to hold 'India Modern' exhibition in New York
India's Delhi Art Gallery will host a "India Modern: Narratives from
20th century Indian Art" exhibition in its first international venture
in New York from March 18 to June 6.
The exhibition at the new
7,000 square feet gallery in the historic Fuller Building on New York's
Madison Avenue, includes rare early works by some of the 42 artists on
view.
These include close to a 100 pieces by India's most
prominent modernists such as F.N. Souza, M.F. Husain, S.H. Raza, Manjit
Bawa, S.K. Bakre, Ram Kumar, Akbar Padamsee, Avinash Chandra, G.R.
Santosh and many others.
"Indian art has had very little space in America," Delhi Art Gallery's India-based managing director, Ashish Anand, said.
"We
hope to significantly increase its presence and look forward to sharing
Indian modern art with the rest of the world, particularly, New York
city.
Established in 1993, Delhi Art Gallery is India's largest
repository of modern masters representing the gamut of art practice in
the twentieth century, according to a media release.
It has
established its presence by building what is arguably the largest
collection of Indian modern and contemporary art of museum-quality.
These
parallel or closely follow contemporary movements in the West, placing
them in the same context as Pablo Picasso, Matisse, the German
Expressionists, the Paris or New York School.
With galleries in
New Delhi and Mumbai, and now one in New York, besides annual
participation in a number of leading national and international art
fairs, Delhi Art Gallery continues to expand the reach of Indian modern
art to newer locations and art audience.