Forms of Modernity

Forms of Modernity explores the many ways Indian artists reimagined form, perception, and experience through shifting visual languages. Moving across realism, structural figuration, abstraction, expression, and folk-inflected practices, the exhibition brings together works that reflect changing ways of seeing and making. Rather than presenting modernity as a single style or moment, it reveals a layered process shaped by observation, memory, imagination, and lived experience.

Works

Installation

Forms of Modernity

Forms of Modernity explores the many ways Indian artists reimagined form, perception, and experience through shifting visual languages. Moving across realism, structural figuration, abstraction, expression, and folk-inflected practices, the exhibition brings together works that reflect changing ways of seeing and making. Rather than presenting modernity as a single style or moment, it reveals a layered process shaped by observation, memory, imagination, and lived experience.

Natvar Bhavsar

AMBEE, 1993

Dry pigments with oil and acrylic

mediums on canvas

32.0 x 30.0 in.

K. H. Ara

Still life with a view

Watercolour on textured paper

29 x 21.7 in.

Jogen Chowdhury

World of Rabindranath Tagore, 1989

Watercolour, ink and pastel on paper

12.7 x 10.0 in.

Close-up of joshua tree branches against a clear sky.

Jamini Roy

Untitled

Tempera on cloth

12.0 x 19.2 in.

Senaka Senanayake

Night Bloom, 2010

Oil on Canvas

47.87 x 59.96 in.

Close-up of joshua tree branches against a clear sky.

Jogen Chowdhury

Untitled, 1992

Ink and pastel

on paper

13.7 x 9.5 in.

Looking up at a grand domed ceiling with columns

Sohan Qadri

Untitled, 2004

Ink and dye on Paper

55.1 x 39.4 in.

Close-up of joshua tree branches against a clear sky.

Achuthan Kudallur

Untitled, 2017

Acrylic on Canvas

44.0 x 48.1 in.

Looking up at a grand domed ceiling with columns

G. R. Santosh

Untitled, 1994

Acrylic on canvas

53.2 x 39.0 in.

Full moon rising over a dark, silhouetted mountain ridge.

S. K. Bakre

Untitled, 1959

Oil on jute

34 x 34 in.

Shobha Broota

Geometric Delight, 2008

Acrylic on canvas laid on canvas

47.7 x 48.0 in.

A bottle of daisy perfume with floral accents.

Jyoti Bhatt

Untitled

Pastel on paper

22.0 x 15.0 in.

Gopal Ghose

Untitled

Gouache and

pastel on paper

10.7 x 7.0 in.

Sohan Qadri

Untitled

Oil and Mixed Media on canvas

31.5 x 39.3 in.

Gogi Saroj Pal

Untitled, 2008

Gouache with digital

print on paper

29.5 × 22.2 in.

© 2025 Kalakaar Fine Art LLP

© 2025 Kalakaar Fine Art LLP

© 2025 Kalakaar Fine Art LLP