An exhibition of artworks by Sakshi Gupta & David Alesworth at GALLERYSKE, 1st Floor, Shivam House, F14 Middle Circle, Connaught Place > 26th March to 14th May 2015
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26th March : 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm Add to Calendar 26-03-2015 17:00:00 26-03-2015 19:00:00 68 Opening of the exhibition of artworks by Sakshi Gupta & David Alesworth Event Page : http://goo.gl/49qyzG GALLERYSKE, 1st Floor, Shivam House, F14 Middle Circle, Connaught Place, New Delhi 110 001 DD/MM/YYYY - Opening
27th March to 14th May : 12:00 noon - 8:00 pm (Tuesdays closed) Add to Calendar 27-03-2015 12:00:00 14-05-2015 20:00:00 68 An exhibition of artworks by Sakshi Gupta & David Alesworth Event Page : http://goo.gl/49qyzG GALLERYSKE, 1st Floor, Shivam House, F14 Middle Circle, Connaught Place, New Delhi 110 001 DD/MM/YYYY - Exhibition on View
Entry : Free
Venue : GALLERYSKE, 1st Floor, Shivam House, F14 Middle Circle, Connaught Place, New Delhi 110 001
Venue Info : www.galleryske.com | Map
Metro : Nearest Metro Station - 'Rajiv Chowk' (Yellow Line and Blue Line)
Area : Connaught Place (CP)
Event Description : GALLERYSKE New Delhi is pleased to present "At the still point of the turning world" by Sakshi Gupta, a series of new sculpture. The exhibition title sums up the artist’s current position, and marks an important transformative moment in her practice.
A series of sculptures, iterations of platonic solids, the cube and the sphere, explore Gupta’s leaning towards a reductive sensibility in her practice.
Contemplating a renewed process of making following intense mental and physical activity, Gupta explores the experience of productivity in active stillness.
The resultant series of sculpture are indicative of a paring back or paring down to clarify thought, compressing the meanderings and journeys of the mind in through an evocative play of form.
Sakshi Gupta's recent exhibitions include a solo presentation at the Tilton Gallery, New York (2013), “Become the Wind” at GALLERYSKE, Bangalore (2013) and “Crazy Jane and Jack the journey man,” Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna (2011). Recent group shows include “Passage to India,” Staatliches Museum Schwerin, Schwerin (2015), “Nothing, No Thing,” curated by Bose Krishnamachari, Art Stage, Singapore (2014), “Indian Highway,” curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Julia Peyton-Jone sand Gunnar B Kvaran, shown at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art Beijing (2012), “Shadow Lines,” Biennale Jogja XI, Jogja, (2011), “Homespun,” Devi Art Foundation, Delhi NCR (2011) and “Paris-Delhi-Bombay,” Centre de Pompidou, Paris (2011). Gupta was the recipient of the Illy Sustain Award (2011) and the Civitella Ranieri Fellowship (2011/2012). Sakshi Gupta lives and works in New Delhi.
GALLERYSKE New Delhi is pleased to present "Gardening the Archive", a series of prints and “textile interventions” on carpets by David Alesworth, an English artist-gardener who has lived and worked in Pakistan for over twenty years.
Weaving geospatial narratives into the layered space of traditional carpets, Alesworth explores the landscape of repurposed carpets as a site of complex historical and political associations. The relationship between the carpet as a microcosmic representation of garden landscapes and the idea of gardens as perfected visions of the whole world is expressed in “Hyde Park Kashan, 1862.” Here, a fragment of a Stanford map of London (sheet-9) depicting the site of the second Great London Exposition of 1862, a world fair, has been mapped over a seventy-five year old, worn and damaged, Kashan carpet. As a marker of Empire, the palimpsest alludes to power and domination.
“Cantt Runner, 1893” portrays the spatial layout of the New Lahore Cantonment, an area developed in Lahore by the British following the First War of Indian Independence in 1857. Still in existence as a whisper beneath contemporary developments, Alesworth highlights the underlying colonial history and design of modern Lahore. In “The Chinese Periodic Balouch, 1926,” a typical antique Balouch kilim is intervened upon with sheep-wool embroidery based upon an early, handwritten rendition of the Periodic Table in Chinese, taking the current (con)-quest of Baluchistan for raw materials as its premise.
The endeavor to categorise and systematise ‘the new,’ the ‘exotic,’ or the ‘other,’ at institutions such as Kew Gardens, London, is the context of a series of prints. Expressing the complexities of botanical classification and its underlying desire for knowledge and control, these hybrid archives contain overlays of printed, handwritten and pictorial documentation. Resultant images communicate the ambiguities and challenges implicit in the archive.
David Alesworth has exhibited widely, notably at the Fukuoka Asian Art Trienniale, Fukuoka (1999), The Third Asia Pacific Trienniale, Brisbane (1999), “Lines of Descent” Noosa, Cairns, Perc Tucker, Bundaberg and Rockhampton galleries (2000-2001), “Happiness” Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (2003), “The Other” National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai (2005), “60 x 60” Moti Roti video project, touring internationally (2007-2009), “The Rising Tide: New Directions in Art From Pakistan, 1990-2010” Mohatta Palace Museum, Karachi (2010), “Gardens of Babel” solo show at Rohtas-2 Gallery, Lahore (2011), “Lines of Control” British Council, London (2011), the Berlin Biennale-8, Berlin (2014), "The Garden of Ideas" Agha Khan Museum, Toronto (2014-2015). His works are in a number of public and private collections. Alesworth lives and works in Lahore, Pakistan.
26th March : 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm Add to Calendar 26-03-2015 17:00:00 26-03-2015 19:00:00 68 Opening of the exhibition of artworks by Sakshi Gupta & David Alesworth Event Page : http://goo.gl/49qyzG GALLERYSKE, 1st Floor, Shivam House, F14 Middle Circle, Connaught Place, New Delhi 110 001 DD/MM/YYYY - Opening
27th March to 14th May : 12:00 noon - 8:00 pm (Tuesdays closed) Add to Calendar 27-03-2015 12:00:00 14-05-2015 20:00:00 68 An exhibition of artworks by Sakshi Gupta & David Alesworth Event Page : http://goo.gl/49qyzG GALLERYSKE, 1st Floor, Shivam House, F14 Middle Circle, Connaught Place, New Delhi 110 001 DD/MM/YYYY - Exhibition on View
Entry : Free
Venue : GALLERYSKE, 1st Floor, Shivam House, F14 Middle Circle, Connaught Place, New Delhi 110 001
Venue Info : www.galleryske.com | Map
Metro : Nearest Metro Station - 'Rajiv Chowk' (Yellow Line and Blue Line)
Area : Connaught Place (CP)
Event Description : GALLERYSKE New Delhi is pleased to present "At the still point of the turning world" by Sakshi Gupta, a series of new sculpture. The exhibition title sums up the artist’s current position, and marks an important transformative moment in her practice.
A series of sculptures, iterations of platonic solids, the cube and the sphere, explore Gupta’s leaning towards a reductive sensibility in her practice.
Contemplating a renewed process of making following intense mental and physical activity, Gupta explores the experience of productivity in active stillness.
The resultant series of sculpture are indicative of a paring back or paring down to clarify thought, compressing the meanderings and journeys of the mind in through an evocative play of form.
Sakshi Gupta's recent exhibitions include a solo presentation at the Tilton Gallery, New York (2013), “Become the Wind” at GALLERYSKE, Bangalore (2013) and “Crazy Jane and Jack the journey man,” Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna (2011). Recent group shows include “Passage to India,” Staatliches Museum Schwerin, Schwerin (2015), “Nothing, No Thing,” curated by Bose Krishnamachari, Art Stage, Singapore (2014), “Indian Highway,” curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Julia Peyton-Jone sand Gunnar B Kvaran, shown at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art Beijing (2012), “Shadow Lines,” Biennale Jogja XI, Jogja, (2011), “Homespun,” Devi Art Foundation, Delhi NCR (2011) and “Paris-Delhi-Bombay,” Centre de Pompidou, Paris (2011). Gupta was the recipient of the Illy Sustain Award (2011) and the Civitella Ranieri Fellowship (2011/2012). Sakshi Gupta lives and works in New Delhi.
GALLERYSKE New Delhi is pleased to present "Gardening the Archive", a series of prints and “textile interventions” on carpets by David Alesworth, an English artist-gardener who has lived and worked in Pakistan for over twenty years.
Weaving geospatial narratives into the layered space of traditional carpets, Alesworth explores the landscape of repurposed carpets as a site of complex historical and political associations. The relationship between the carpet as a microcosmic representation of garden landscapes and the idea of gardens as perfected visions of the whole world is expressed in “Hyde Park Kashan, 1862.” Here, a fragment of a Stanford map of London (sheet-9) depicting the site of the second Great London Exposition of 1862, a world fair, has been mapped over a seventy-five year old, worn and damaged, Kashan carpet. As a marker of Empire, the palimpsest alludes to power and domination.
“Cantt Runner, 1893” portrays the spatial layout of the New Lahore Cantonment, an area developed in Lahore by the British following the First War of Indian Independence in 1857. Still in existence as a whisper beneath contemporary developments, Alesworth highlights the underlying colonial history and design of modern Lahore. In “The Chinese Periodic Balouch, 1926,” a typical antique Balouch kilim is intervened upon with sheep-wool embroidery based upon an early, handwritten rendition of the Periodic Table in Chinese, taking the current (con)-quest of Baluchistan for raw materials as its premise.
The endeavor to categorise and systematise ‘the new,’ the ‘exotic,’ or the ‘other,’ at institutions such as Kew Gardens, London, is the context of a series of prints. Expressing the complexities of botanical classification and its underlying desire for knowledge and control, these hybrid archives contain overlays of printed, handwritten and pictorial documentation. Resultant images communicate the ambiguities and challenges implicit in the archive.
David Alesworth has exhibited widely, notably at the Fukuoka Asian Art Trienniale, Fukuoka (1999), The Third Asia Pacific Trienniale, Brisbane (1999), “Lines of Descent” Noosa, Cairns, Perc Tucker, Bundaberg and Rockhampton galleries (2000-2001), “Happiness” Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (2003), “The Other” National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai (2005), “60 x 60” Moti Roti video project, touring internationally (2007-2009), “The Rising Tide: New Directions in Art From Pakistan, 1990-2010” Mohatta Palace Museum, Karachi (2010), “Gardens of Babel” solo show at Rohtas-2 Gallery, Lahore (2011), “Lines of Control” British Council, London (2011), the Berlin Biennale-8, Berlin (2014), "The Garden of Ideas" Agha Khan Museum, Toronto (2014-2015). His works are in a number of public and private collections. Alesworth lives and works in Lahore, Pakistan.
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