Celebrating 90 years of work by Siraj gujral, the event comes in wake of portrying some of his finest works, from the past nine decades. Curated by Shri Pramod Kumar KG, the exhibition is a tribute to the zeitgeist of modernism as seen and portrayed by him. Over 70 original works of art will be juxtaposed with rare archival photographs spanning his life, and the remarkable people from the 20th century who touched his life, and vintage images of works that have long left public memory.
Gujral began his career in 1947 with dramatic paintings named the ‘partition series’ that captured and symbolized the trauma of the subcontinent’s partition resulting in the creation of India and Pakistan. Crucially, memory as metaphor shadows his work, with characters appearing as leitmotifs across the many mediums he was to work with over the succeeding six decades: sketches to collages, abstract paintings to narrative depictions of the human condition. His work entered another epoch as he delved into sculpture in stone, metals and resin alongside elaborate forays into ceramics, a preferred material for his iconic murals across north India.
Celebrating 90 years of work by Siraj gujral, the event comes in wake of portrying some of his finest works, from the past nine decades. Curated by Shri Pramod Kumar KG, the exhibition is a tribute to the zeitgeist of modernism as seen and portrayed by him. Over 70 original works of art will be juxtaposed with rare archival photographs spanning his life, and the remarkable people from the 20th century who touched his life, and vintage images of works that have long left public memory.
Gujral began his career in 1947 with dramatic paintings named the ‘partition series’ that captured and symbolized the trauma of the subcontinent’s partition resulting in the creation of India and Pakistan. Crucially, memory as metaphor shadows his work, with characters appearing as leitmotifs across the many mediums he was to work with over the succeeding six decades: sketches to collages, abstract paintings to narrative depictions of the human condition. His work entered another epoch as he delved into sculpture in stone, metals and resin alongside elaborate forays into ceramics, a preferred material for his iconic murals across north India.