Inner Resonance: A Return To Sama

SEPTEMBER 1 TO 30, 2018,BENGALURU.

When tracing the evolution of modernism in South Indian contemporary art, one comes across distinct markers to decode this rather complex narrative. At the centre of it all is the colonial established Madras School of Arts and Crafts and the Madras Art Movement that started in the 1960s and later defined the terrain for a generation of artists. But what is often woefully overlooked within the mainstream narrative of Indian contemporary art is the achievements of the many artists who were key players within the movement. Chief among them is S.G. Vasudev, one of the leading contemporary modernists of post-Independent India, whose life’s works were recently on view at his retrospective exhibition Inner Resonance: A Return to Sama at the National Gallery of Modern Art in Bengaluru.