An Inter-Generational Dialogue: Opening of the Anupam Sud - Harshdeep Kaur show
Dhoomimal Gallery’s recent exhibition, ‘In Dialogue, Across Time’, which was on view at The Ballroom, Bikaner House, New Delhi, through September 19 - 25, has been a unique presentation as it brought together works by two individuals who are separated by generations yet are tied together through similarities, most important of which is their passion for art. We are talking of Anupam Sud—one of India’s legendary and pathbreaking artists—and Harshdeep Kaur, both of whose works are currently on display at this joint show.
Sud, inarguably India’s best known printmaker who took up painting in watercolours in a big way during the pandemic lockdown, shares stage with her younger contemporary, which says a lot about the faith the senior artist reposes in Kaur’s potential. Both were students at the College of Art, Delhi, in different decades; Sud was also a senior professor at the same institution when Kaur was studying art there.
The exhibition was inaugurated on September 19 in the presence of both the artists, Uday Jain, director of Dhoomimal Gallery, Sunaina Jain and the gallery matriarch Uma Ravi Jain. Uday Jain said, “Anupam Sud is a legend who is known for her work in printmaking and painting for over five decades now. Harsh is a prodigy who imbibes a lot from her style. What we see here are a lot of landscapes, and studies, of both the male and the female form.”
Sud added, “I’m grateful to Dhoomimal Gallery for mounting this show and it seems people are enjoying the show.” Kaur added that she got her first solo show, courtesy Dhoomimal Gallery, and was grateful for this opportunity to show with the renowned veteran, with whom she had developed a closer bond over the years.
Those in attendance included Odissi dancer Sharon Lowen, artists Niren Sen Gupta, Kanchan Chander, Dattatreya Apte, Ananda Moy Bannerjee, Sushanta Guha, Hemraj, Nupur Kundu and Amrita Ghosh, Payal Kapoor of Arushi Arts, Pragati Agarwal of Art Tree, and filmmaker and art critic Vinod Bhardwaj, among several others.
