As India completes her 75th anniversary of Independence, it is indeed an opportune moment to look back, reflect and assess the visual space shaped by 75 years of freedom; how we started the journey and where we now stand. Colours of Freedom is thus an endeavour to capture a holistic visual language of Independent India and examine some of the movements pointing to the future. This exhibition is aimed at providing a glimpse of some interesting creative experiments undertaken by visual artists, across genres. While many veteran modernists and artists from the 1950s to the 1990s have been included, so have works by relatively unseen award-winning artists of this millennial who present important pointers to the times and ideas ahead.
The participating artists include: Somnath Hore, Bhupen Khakhar, Sanat Kar, Maqbool Fida Hussain, Ram Kumar, S.H. Raza, Manjit Bawa, Arpita Singh, Paramjit Singh, Ganesh Pyne, Jogen Chowdhury, Bikash Bhattacharjee, Lalu Prasad Shaw, Sushen Ghosh, Prabhakar Kolte, Rm. Palaniappan, Manu Parekh, Madhvi Parekh, Sarbari Roy Chowdhury, Ravinder G. Reddy, Satyajit Ray, Yusuf, Jyoti Bhatt, K.G. Subramanyan, Rajendra Dhawan, T. Vaikuntam, Nalini Malani, Shreyasi Chatterjee, Kingshuk Sarkar, Sumitro Basak, Paresh Maity, Shakila, Jaya Ganguly, A. Balasubramaniam, Akhilesh, Harendra Kumar Kushwaha, Prashant Shashikant Patil, Soham Gupta, Asis Kumar Mahakhud, Tapas Biswas, Suman Chandra, Yogeesh P. Naik, Sonal Varshneya, Joydeep Bhattacharya, Satyaranjan Das, Chandrapal Panjre, Anirban Saha, Swapnesh Vaigankar, Manish Moitra, Jangarh Singh Shyam, Saami Quilt, Jaidev Baghel, and Swarna Chitrakar.
Venue: Visual Arts Gallery, Habitat Centre, New Delhi.
Dates: 1st Nov– 10th Nov, 2022
Curated by: Rakhi Sarkar, Director & Curator, CIMA - Centre of International Modern Art, Kolkata
