Walk the line
dal 27/2/2008 al 19/3/2008
Segnalato da
Murali Cheeroth
Pratul Dash
Gigi Scaria
Pooja Iranna
Josh P.S.
Surinder Mishra
Vibha Galhotra
Ranjita Chaney
27/2/2008
Walk the line
Avanthay Contemporary AG, Zurich
The show presents seven artists from India defining the architectural creations around them. In more than fifteen artworks, oil and acrylics on canvas, paper and photo works, artists like Murali Cheeroth, Pratul Dash, Gigi Scaria, Pooja Iranna and Josh P.S. show their personal view on the expanding architectural environment in the metro-cities.
Curated by Ranjita Chaney
The Gallery AVANTHAY CONTEMPORARY is proud to present for the first time in Zurich an
art exhibition with seven contemporary Indian artists.
Ranjita Chaney from Contemplate Arts, India, is our visiting curator who was inspired to do a
contemporary Indian art exhibition in Switzerland after „Horn Please“ was shown at the Bern
Museum. „Horn Please“ focused on narratives in contemporary Indian art. Chaney has chosen the
title „Walk the Line“ for this exhibition because it focuses on the architectural cognition of the
artists. Chaney’s intention is to break new grounds with this.
How do Indian artists see the architecture in their metro-cities?
In the show entitled „Walk the Line“ the gallery Avanthay Contemporary in cooperation with
Contemplates Arts, India, presents seven artists from India defining the architectural creations
around them. In more than fifteen artworks, oil and acrylics on canvas, paper and photo works,
artists like Murali Cheeroth, Pratul Dash, Gigi Scaria, Pooja Iranna and Josh P.S. et al. show their
personal view on the expanding architectural environment in the metro-cities.
The artists see architecture not only as mere profitable or inhabited buildings but more of positive
and negative constructed lines. These lines form a strong and cognizant structure. In today's
language, we would call this united space a city or metro. The artists are responding to skyscrapers,
concrete roads and rowed buildings. These artists come from towns and villages. They are used to
their homes having large gardens with fields and lawns around them. Here they demonstrate their
view on the facades created in the ever developing metro-city.
„Some think these tall buildings are a great accomplishment although they stand alone. They seem
lonely, as a person, who has become famous and yet has an emptiness living within, like the dictated
colonial times we saw. The origin of these rude and heartless monstrous edifices is not indigenous to
India“ (Ranjita Chaney, curator of the exhibition).
Preview: Thursday, February 28th 2008, from 18-21h
Avanthay Contemporary AG
Limmatstrasse 275 - Zurich
free admission