Black Cube Gallery presents Threads of Tradition, a solo exhibition of new works by Thota Vaikuntam, one of India’s most celebrated modern artists. Renowned for his distinctive figurative paintings of the people of Telangana, Vaikuntam now expands his visual language into an unexpected medium of embroidery. Thota Vaikuntam’s art radiates the vibrancy of rural Telangana, celebrating its people with devotion, dignity, and sensual grace. His figures, often draped in luminous hues and adorned with sacred intimacy, embody the timeless rhythm of tradition and everyday divinity. In a singular moment of convergence between canvas and craft, the vibrant and poetic paintings of Thota Vaikuntam come alive in the threads of three-dimensional embroidery by the Shams family of Agra, the sixteenth generation of masters practicing the regal art of zardozi for over three centuries.
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