INDIA ART FAIR 2023

‘The primary inspiration has been and still is nature’, Mrinalini Mukherjee has said. ‘Nothing else can furnish my imagination in the same way.’ We are proud to present a rare sculpture in bronze by the artist from 2008, shown previously at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in the retrospective exhibition Phenomenal Nature: Mrinalini Mukherjee in 2019, together with a pair of watercolours from the early 2000s, on display here for the first time. In a short career, Lionel Wendt produced some of the most striking and stylish examples of 20th-century Modernist photography, focusing on the people, traditions, and landscapes of his native Ceylon with a vision strongly influenced by Surrealist and Constructivist art. Untitled (four men on a deck) from c.1930s was included in two seminal presentations: in 2014 at the 10th Gwangju Biennale, and in 2017 at Huis Marseille, Amsterdam, in the exhibition Lionel Wendt: Ceylon. Alongside this vintage material, we are delighted to feature ambitious new work by Lubna Chowdhary, Yamini Nayar, Harminder Judge, made especially for the fair, and recent work in painting by Matthew Krishanu and Michael Müller. We also introduce the practice of painter Gaurav Gupta, whose debut solo we will host at the gallery in March.