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ART SG, 2024 | BOOTH NO. BD 01
19 - 21 JANUARY 2024 Anant Art is pleased to announce its participation in the 2024 edition of Art Singapore, presenting the works of Alexander Gorlizki, Arslan Farooqi, Bushra Waqas Khan, Ghulam Mohammad, Hammad Gillani, Jatinder Singh Durhailay, Puja Mondal, and Rehana Mangi. -
ART MUMBAI, 2023 | BOOTH 26
16 NOVEMBER - 19 NOVEMBER 2023 Anant Art is delighted to participate in the inaugural edition of Art Mumbai, showcasing works by Abhishek Narayan Verma, Alexander Gorlizki, Arslan Farooqi, Dhara Mehrotra, Digbijayee Khatua, Ghulam Mohammad, Hammad Gillani, Harsh Nambiar, Rehana Mangi, Tito Stanley SJ, and Vikrant Bhise. -
IAF 2023 | To Pick Up a Brush: Harsh Nambiar, Shailee Mehta, Tito Stanley SJ, Vikrant Bhise | Booth E5
9 February – 12 February 2023Anant Art is pleased to return to the fifteenth edition of India Art Fair, with a showcase of chromatic flourishes in painting. Inspired by Gieve Patel’s 1985 essay, “To Pick up a Brush”, our booth presents four new voices exploring mediatic and formal possibilities intimate to painting, which Patel situated in the language of ‘stroke, colours, relationships’. The booth will showcase works by Harsh Nambiar, Shailee Mehta, Tito Stanley SJ and Vikrant Bhise.
New Delhi based artist Harsh Nambiar (b. 1989), works predominantly with oil. Presenting a series of portraits, of beings imbued with a chimerical aura—an admixture of gaunt flesh and soft ether, emerging from or arriving at serpentine, spare landscape—Harsh attends to the colours of each portrait with immense fortitude, using saturation and hue as fabulatory tools that can suggest temperament or narrative.
Goa based painter, Shailee Mehta (b. 1998) is an alumna of Slade School of Art and University of the Arts London, UK. She describes her practice as stemming from an “an autobiographical lens on the female embodiment of agency” and “using a theatrical visual language to subvert patriarchal tropes by enacting an otherness associated with the female experience”.
An alumnus of College of Fine Arts, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, and MS University Baroda, Gujarat, Tito Stanley SJ’s (b. 1994) highly vibrant and intensely allegorical art practice anchors itself in the artist’s lived experience, with a rich and expressive brushwork that alludes to eschatological iconographies. He lives and works in Vadodara, India.
Vikrant Bhise (b. 1984), an alumnus of LS Raheja School of Art and JJ School of Art, Mumbai, is a visual artist who lives and works in Mumbai, India. At the forefront of struggle against caste-based domination and its vertiginous implications on land, liberty and labour, Vikrant’s artistic practice iterates his commitment to the revolutionary spirit inherent in the Ambedkarite consciousness.
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IAF 2023 | Focus Booth: Digbijayee Khatua | Booth G2
9 February – 12 February 2023Working with watercolour on paper, paper-cutting and acrylic on canvas to capture intimate details of urban landscapes, Digbijayee Khatua’s artworks are a reflection of contemporary landscapes marked with rapid urbanisation, power-lust, ecological instability and psychological saturation that engulfs city-dwellers. Anant Art is pleased to be presenting a solo showcase of Khatua’s new suite of works, marked with characteristic clean lines and bold colours.
Digbijayee Khatua (b. 1989, Orissa) attained a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Painting) from BK College of Art and Crafts, Bhubaneswar, Orissa (2012), and a Master of Visual Arts (Painting) from College of Art, New Delhi (2015). Represented by Anant Art, his works have been exhibited at Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai (2019); MOMus Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece (2019); 56th, 57th, 58th National Exhibition of Art (2015, 2016, 2017) at Lalit Kala Akademi; Indo-Korean Young Artist Exhibition, Seoul, Korea (2016). Digbijayee lives and works in New Delhi, India.
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ABU DHABI ART FAIR | AISHA KHALID | A6
15 - 20 NOVEMBER 2022Anant Art is pleased to announce our participation in Abu Dhabi Art at Manarat Al Saadiyat, in which we will be presenting a solo exhibition of works by Aisha Khalid in Booth A6 from 15 November through 20 November 2022.Aisha Khalid, born in Faisalabad, Pakistan in 1972, is one of South Asia’s leading contemporary artists. A pioneer of the neo-miniature movement, Khalid has continuously interrogated the figurative and abstract possibilities of the technique of miniature painting, and placed it in dialogue with traditions of conceptual and optical art. Developing a striking vocabulary of motifs and patterns from Persian culture across media, her works invite viewers to contend with persisting and trenchant socio-political realities of the nation manifest in public symbols and collective memory, and the rich, numinous terrain of our inner selves conjured in poetry and spirituality.Inspired by her own experiences in a land fraught by global political machinations, and her reading of the mystic poets Rumi and Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai, Khalid breathes soul into the history of abstraction and transforms it into a language of abiding critique and contemplation. Deploying gestures of repetition, geometric associations, embroidery and calligraphy, Khalid creates a space of wonderment and stillness in a world of rapid corrosion. Yet, Khalid punctures these spaces with needles and pins, cuts open images into half, repairs fractured frescoes and crevices with gold leaf and arabesque vortexes of colour, and weaves military camouflage into ornate tapestries. For Khalid, transcendence and embodiment are two sides of the same coin, and her works soothe and stir the viewer in equal measure. Producing across scales of monumental installations to works on paper, Khalid’s method foregrounds contact and conversation between disparate techniques, forms and histories, such as painting, textile, video, sculpture, photography, sound and performance.Presented at Abu Dhabi Art, Khalid’s works will rekindle the shared histories and interconnectedness of two regions—South Asia and the Middle East, and their conjoined futures. Anant Art’s showcase will present works by Khalid that evoke remembrance and recognition in visitors, with Khalid’s signature touch of enchantment.Aisha Khalid graduated from the National College of Arts, Lahore, and is a post-graduate of the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam. She was a finalist and people’s choice winner of the 2011 Jameel Prize, and was also awarded the 2012 Alice Award and the 2010 Birgit Skiold Memorial Trust Award of Excellence. She has participated in exhibitions such as Moscow Biennale (2013), Sharjah Biennial (2011), Venice Biennale (2009), and the Fukuoka Triennale (2001). Her work is displayed in several museums and private collections all over the world, including the Aga Khan Museum (Toronto), M+ Museum (Hong Kong), Victoria & Albert Museum (London), Fukuoka Asian Art Museum (Japan), World Bank (USA), Sheikh Zayed Museum (Abu Dhabi), and Sharjah Art Museum (United Arab Emirates). She has also exhibited in Morocco, New Delhi, Dubai, Sharjah, New York, Sydney and Finland. In November 2021, a major retrospective titled I Am And I Am Not spanning over 70 works was presented simultaneously at three venues in Karachi, including the iconic Frere Hall, a nineteenth century complex beloved to Khalid. She lives and works in Lahore, Pakistan. -
India Art Fair
28 April - 1 May 2022Anant Art Gallery is delighted to be back for the 13th edition of India Art Fair at booth E-5 from 28 April - 1 May 2022.
We will be showcasing a roster of our artists including Abhishek Narayan Verma, Arslan Farooqi, Bushra Waqas Khan, Dhara Mehrotra, Digbijayee Khatua, Ghulam Mohammad, Hammad Gillani, Laxmipriya Panigrahi, Probir Gupta and Rehana Mangi.