Chennai | With paintings and films on artists, Gita Hudson explores abstraction

Chennai | With paintings and films on artists, Gita Hudson explores abstraction

A view of the show at Lalit Kala Akademi | Photo Credit: special arrangement Today, the Lalit Kala Akademi gallery is red. Many gradient shades of the colour hang heavy on the 90-odd canvases that fill the space: crimsons and reds that are sometimes sharply broken by a deviant, rogue black or grey. But they […]

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Sushisurge’s canvases explore evolving personas in Hyderabad

Sushisurge’s canvases explore evolving personas in Hyderabad

Works displayed at the gallery | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Concepts related to migration and the idea of ‘personas’ have always intrigued Hyderabad-based artist Sushisurge (Sushant Surge). Having moved from Chandigarh to Bengaluru, Delhi and now Hyderabad, the artist explores how emotional changes and various identities one adopts while traversing through unfamiliar cities, cultures and […]

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Sastry Sanyasayya dabbles in abstract art with bright colours

Sastry Sanyasayya dabbles in abstract art with bright colours

By Sastry Sanyasayya | Photo Credit: Special arrangement Sastry Sanyasayya’s abstract landscapes have a childhood story. “The basic drawing by children includes a mountain, sun, nature, house and parents. I used to draw them a lot. The element of the house remained with me,” says the artist, pointing to colourful canvases with symmetrical houses built […]

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Achuthan Kudallur: India’s influential abstract artist and a quiet mentor to many

Achuthan Kudallur: India’s influential abstract artist and a quiet mentor to many

Based in Chennai, the Kerala-born painter was a significant force in India’s contemporary abstract art movement, and also a quiet mentor to many Based in Chennai, the Kerala-born painter was a significant force in India’s contemporary abstract art movement, and also a quiet mentor to many Achuthan Kudallur was endearingly grouchy on the phone. He […]

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