The second summer group show organized by the artist and dealer Peter Nagy, who relocated his New York gallery, Nature Morte, to New Delhi in 1997, lives up to its pungent name with more work by Indian artists at home and abroad, as well as by non-Indians working in India.
Last year's show included installations; this year's, which introduces the work of six artists, most in their 30's, has a strong pictorial slant. The styles are unanimously representational, with the extremes defined by Nataraj Sharma's dreamlike, sometimes nightmarish renditions of urban life, which have academic underpinnings, and Ram Singh Urvedi's obsessively dotted imaginary creatures that draw on indigenous traditions in the state of Madhya Pradesh but seem conversant with cartoons, sci-fi and even Dr. Seuss.