A. Ramachandran, ‘Girls on the Swing’, 2017. Oil on canvas, 78 x 96 in.
A. Ramachandran stands among the most prolific modernists in India’s art history. His death in 2023 marked the close of a formidable five-decade-long career shaped by sustained and compelling explorations into large-scale murals; bronze sculptures; monumental paintings and intimate drawings. Across scale or medium, his work is bound by a curiosity for the act of image-making that entails resolving the artist’s eternal conundrum with representation regardless of subject. This exhibition – title forthcoming – brings together a curated body of work, including paintings from his 1980s Puppet Theatre series alongside later canvases and sculptures that illuminate the enduring significance of...
