Gallery Art Exposure presents Into the Half Light and Shadow Go I, a retrospective showcase of selected Jogen Chowdhury’s drawings, paintings and archives from 1955 to 2023 curated by Jesal Thacker and Soumik Nandy Majumdar.
The curatorial idea attempts to trace how the artist has been willing to encounter the signs of human angst from his early works, including the academic exercises which anticipate his human concerns vis-à-vis social reality. The renewed emphasis on these aspects offers a wider art historical context positing Jogen Chowdhury as one of the flag-bearers of mid-twentieth century Indian modernism which preferred enigmatic and self-reflexive images to explicit and agenda-based articulations.
Find out more about the show here.