Ever since the first exhibition that Rob Dean Art Ltd held in London in 2002 titled ‘Souza and Friends’ the company has had a close association with the works of Francis Newton Souza. As an artist Souza was tirelessly experimental in a career that spanned more than six decades and his drawings, collages and chemical alterations on paper provide an intriguing insight into Souza’s artistic process. The works included in the Delhi Art Summit focus on the period from the 1950’s to the early 1960’s when the artist lived and worked in London.
The range of styles over a period of a few years is striking and contextually places the artist firmly within the European Modernist movements but reveals the voice of a genius who was constantly experimenting and striving to push the boundaries of his artistic vocabulary beyond those of his British and European counterparts. His confident line drawings of nudes reveal a sense of humour and love of the female form that resurfaces in his works throughout his career, whilst his collages and drawings on magazine and newspaper reveal his constant urge to experiment and evolve as an artist.
This exhibition highlights the changing styles of painting that existed in India over three hundred years focusing on works on paper. The works reveal a constant evolution of styles and formats that depended on both the whims of patrons and the personal genius of the individual artists.
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Rob Dean Art is excited to announce their participation in the Indian Art Summit in Delhi, the inaugural art fair in India. After the success of their solo London exhibitions we are delighted to be exhibiting recent works by Kriti Arora and Sharath Kulagatti at the fair.
Further information to follow shortly.
To coincide with Art Basel, the Delhi based contemporary artist Kriti Arora will exhibit at The Gallery in Redchurch Street in her first solo show in London. The exhibition is presented by Rob Dean Art Ltd in association with the LCF Rothschild Group.
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To coincide with the Frieze Art Fair, the critically acclaimed contemporary Indian artist Vanita Gupta will exhibit at The Gallery in Rechurch Street in her first solo show in London. The exhibition is presented by the London-based Rob Dean Art Ltd and the Bombay-based Pundole Art Gallery.
Although Vanita claims to work in a completely 'non-objective' manner, her monochromatic paintings have a compelling need to be interpreted. It is an imagery that demands ones attention and requires decoding. In her recent large-scale canvases there is an echo of the traditional form of Japanese calligraphy, Sousho, merged with elements of urban graffiti.
Sharath Kulagatti's exhibition Present Figments portrayed found objects in large painted forms, placing them against ambiguous backgrounds, blowing up the mundane object to monumental proportions so that they assume an iconic significance.
In association with the Serigraph Studio Mumbai, Rob Dean Art presented this exquisite limited edition of silkscreen prints by the distinguished Bengali artist Jogen Chowdhury. This series of eighteen prints is a limited edition, each serigraph has been signed and numbered by the artist.