Subcontinent presents its latest solo exhibition, Energy Fields, by Jangarh Singh Shyam. The exhibition presents an unprecedented look at the artist who developed a singular vocabulary of form and pattern, now recognised as Jangarh Kalam. The works in the exhibition span Jangarh’s early experiments with prints to his later defining works, revealing the evolution of his genius over a twenty-year practice. Highlights include a rare 1997 canvas Untitled (Two White Tigers in the Forest), where, as the name suggests, two white tigers are hunting in the forest with a flock of birds at dusk. A painting from 2001, Untitled (Peacock and Mongoose), where the two creatures are intertwined with incredible patterns and a powerful depiction of Bade Dev, 1989, a central deity of the Gond-Pardhan community. Another work, Untitled, (Deer Family under a Mahua tree) from 1996 depicts a family of deers trotting under a swaying Mahua tree, is one of the few works in the exhibition made using the Rotring pen, an architectural instrument Jangarh discovered around the late 1980s.
Find out more about the show here.