SOLO SHOW
Miasmatica
ANANDAJIT RAY
3 September – 30 September 2021
Monday – Saturday | 10 a.m. – 6 p.m
Vadehra Art Gallery
D-40 Defence Colony, New Delhi – 110024
Vadehra Art Gallery is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of 27 paintings titled Miasmatica, featuring recent work by artist Anandajit Ray at our D-40 Defence Colony gallery.
In Miasmatica, Ray pursues symbiotic energies in theme through deliberate distinctions in the focal points or character of a particular series of work. He consumes the generality of the surrounding environment with open-minded largesse, while invoking a humorous approach to what can be noted as intense perceptions. Ray is interested in pictorializing the intersection between the illusions of thought and the reality of vision, by pledging hyper-awareness to the boundaries between external happenings and internal imprinting.
In the Peripheral Vapid series of paintings, Ray turns to Indian miniatures for structural inspiration, but instead of employing a journalistic approach to figuration he focuses on the aesthetics of violence and anxiety that are caused by a general emptiness of feeling. Pseudo Pathogens, a series of paintings modelled after scientific, botanical drawings, eschew any particular context for the essence of what the artist calls ‘imaginative maladies’. Ray’s Exercise in Brush Behaviour series represents a formal inquiry into the nature of painting – or painting for painting’s sake – in which one senses the amplification of theme as brought about by a questioning of the medium.
We’re happy to welcome visitors to the gallery, where we’re undertaking all safety protocols. An e-catalogue is also available on request. For all inquiries, please write to art@vadehraart.com.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Born in 1965 in Kolkata, ANANDAJIT RAY completed his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University, Baroda. Ray has participated in several solo and group shows, more recently including Gallery Espace, New Delhi (2007); Aicon Gallery, New York ( 2009); Grosvenor Vadehra, London (2010); Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai (2017 and 2011); Art Chennai, Chennai (2012); Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi (2014); Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai (2014); and Gallery White, Baroda (2018). He received the Elizabeth Greenshilds scholarship in 1991. The artist lives and works in Baroda, India.