"Alexis Kersey's canvases many seem simple on the surface, but they are swarming with energy and menace. What does it mean to be a Westerner painting in India? To make sense, with some sensitivity, of the chaotic visual landscape that India presents, to unravel a civilisation that still retains many of its millennia-old moorings, entwined with bits and pieces of religions and cultures from the world over, which is, moreover, constantly reinventing itself in line with the 'modern' West?"
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"What do you make of an artist who sheds his ego enough to learn techniques of art from signboard painters? That is Alexis Kersey for you. Born to an English father and Australian mother, this artist has largely made India his home. Kersey has now come up with a show of works that fuses western perspectives of art with Indian techniques (ranging from classical art to the art of signboards)..."
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