In Chennai, Explore the idea of ​​home with avtar foundation’s new exhibit

The Ongoing Exhibition at Avtar Foundation for Arts Hits Home. Somemes you are gazing at someone else’s home, someimes you are right in the middle of their living room quietly taking in the surroundings, sometases you are standing in front of barbed wires dividing two caount Dividing Homes Too.

At home – an exploitation of space, belonging, identity, and memory, curved by shruti parthasarathy, marks a significant begining for exhibiting for exhibiting modern and contemporary art in chennai, with New Permanent Space in MRC Nagar, Ra Puram.

“The Foundation’s Primary Purpose is to address the Lack of Public or Private Institutions in Chennai that showcase Contemporary and Modern South Asia Art to the Public. It is aims to four AIT AIMS TO MOBLIC About the current developments in the south asian art Scene, both in modern and coneprery art, “Says jaiveer johal, collector and founder of avtar foundation for arts.

The exhibition showcases the works of seminal artists like vs gaitonde, zarina hashmi, and explores contemporary arts through the works of Shilpa Gupta, ARSHI DELPA GUPTA, ARSHI AHIHAD AHHIAD AHHIADAAI, Baararaan Ijala. , Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

The exhibition delves into the idea of ​​what home really means – whather it is a physical structure or live space, as a marker of a marker of a metural identity, or as a memory of a space to time, displacement Longing. “The idea is to have different connotations of home, home as a shelter or refuge, and what it means to different people.,” Says shruti.

Spanning the works of seminal artists like vs gaitonde, zarina and exploring contemporary art through the works of Shilpa Gupta, Arshi Irshad Ahmadzai, BAARAAAN IJLAL, BAARAAAN IJLAL, And Maany Oliters, The Exhibit begins with the concept of home, starting with a concrete, architectural explosion of space, line, and volume in Built Houses, and Progressing to a more abstractanding of HOME.

There is artist Ayushi anil panchal’s inside story II, 2023, featuring a zinc plate, two fans are depicted on the plate, represening the memory of using a fan to cool down up The plate with its minute carvings shows a cramped but beloved space, something that represents the home she green.

Cityscape

There is vs gaitonde’s abstract piece, Titled untitled (Cityscape) -1971, a depiction of the bombay skyline. “Gaitonde’s Large Watercolour wash is from a brief, Lesser-Known Phase Just Before He Moved To The Large Monochrome Oils often Ascribed to His Deep Interest In Zen Buddhism. Sugged a Built City Skyline of Bombay where he lived then, but very atmospheric, suggesting sky and sea green water and has the same air of training and stillnes of the oils, ”describes shruti.

Artist Zarina’s Series, by the Mango Tree-1988, Depicts A Ripe Mango Seed in Different Ways, Perhaps A Portrayal of the Artist’s Mango Tree in the hercyard. “Here, Homer Residence only in memory; it’s about longing and loss of the childhood home.

Shilpa Gupta’s, 100 handdrawn maps of India (2019) Invited Gallery visitors to Draw Maps of India, Why then Layred to Demonstrate that No Single Map is Definitive, and Thaat the borsrs ARE IMAGINARY NOTE FILIX.

The show is open to all from wedding to Sunday, 11am to 6pm, until October 10, at no. 57, 3rd Floor, Satyadev Avenue, MRC Nagar, Raja Annamalai Puram, Chennai.

Published – August 26, 2025 01:08 pm IST