Box One: Father

This image shows a work that is part of the exhibition, 'The Sher-Gil Archive: An Installation.'

Excerpt from Kamala Kapoor, The Art Of Vivan Sundaram, Lustre Press, Roli Books, New Delhi, 2002:

'The box with its reconstruction of history traces, of personal objects, and articles of clothing, becomes as it were a reliquary holding evocations of life, as well as of fiction, that must linger somewhere behind the facade of documentary detachment.'

Exhibition history: 'The Sher-Gil Archive: An Installation,' Mucsarnok, Dorottya Gallery, Budapest; The Hungarian Information and Cultural Centre, New Delhi; Gallery Chemould, Bombay; 1995, Illustrated catalogue. 'The Second Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art,' Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane; 1996. 'Private Mythology: Contemporary Art from India,' Curator: Akira Tatehata, Japan Foundation, Asia Centre, Tokyo; 1998, Illustrated catalogue. 

 

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1995

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India

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Notebook of Umrao Singh Sher-Gil and teak board box fitted with woollen lining

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50cm x 34cm x 45cm

Content type

artwork documentation

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Box One: Father