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Bhupen Khakhar, 1934 – 2003
Bhupen Khakhar was the opposite of anachronistic – modern? That doesn’t seem to cover it. His paintings are sensuous, brave, graceful, perhaps (aphorisms invited) ahead of their time. Born into a middle-class Gujarati family in Bombay in 1934, he trained as a chartered accountant, and only aged 28 did he start to make art. He…
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Ali Kazim, b.1979
Ali Kazim was born in Pattoki, Pakistan in 1979. He trained in Lahore and London, and has had exhibitions from Oxford to Karachi. His watercolours are tightly observed, highly detailed paintings which feel like a refrain from the Mughal past. They are miniatures at scale, sometimes of barren landscapes, and often of figures in isolation.…
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Vishwa Shroff, b.1980
A Mumbai based artist exploring architectural forms. Shroff’s practice sits between geometry and architecture. Her drawings bristle with clipped precision and invite questions about our relationship with buildings when they are in front of us on paper. There is something reassuringly analogue about the arrangements she composes. Perhaps it’s the peaceful, self-contained combinations of mathematics.…
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Introduction to G J Varley Art
Learning about Indian art in India. Stay to see the things I come across, written about. Call it Bombay or Mumbai as makes you happy. Mostly full of ramblings about art with the occasional invasion from sport.
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