Aditya Pande, Alexis Kersay, Dileep Sharma New Paintings
February 23, 2008

GALLERY NATURE MORTE
A1 NEETI BAGH, NEW DELHI 110 049 INDIA
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Press Release

New works by Alexis Kersey, Aditya Pande and Dileep Sharma.
February 23 – March 15, 2008

Nature Morte is pleased to present new works by three young artists the gallery has not exhibited before. All share a penchant for imagery culled from popular culture and explore the diversity of possibilities available to painters today.

Alexis Kersey is the senior member of this group, born in 1972 in Mysore. He studied with sign painters in south India to develop a style of painting that could be called Indian Pop. His first exhibition, at the British Council galleries in New Delhi in 2004, combined Indian vernacular languages and images into comical signs. He next developed a style of figurative painting that combined traditional religious iconographies with rock'n'roll subcultures. These works were featured in solo exhibitions mounted by Apparao Galleries in New Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and London. Kersey's newest works, on display at Nature Morte, combine oil paintings with inlaid wooden panels and mirrors to create densely layered portraits and icons, swirling with both energy and menace.

Aditya Pande, born in Lucknow in 1974 and living in New Delhi, passed out from the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad in 2001. His work mixes computer graphics with painting, drawing and collage, blurring the lines between techniques and imagery. Scribbled animals are rendered in a high-tech computer language and juxtaposed against buoyant forms and colors. Pande is also a partner in Tota Design, which specializes in product and graphic design, and his painterly work owes its freshness to his unorthodox approach and frame of references.

Dileep Sharma was born in Rajasthan in 1974 and graduated from the JJ School of Art in Mumbai in 1998, having studied both painting and print-making. His large scale watercolors feature larger-than-life figures populated by miniatures figures and detailing. The palette is unrealistic while his line-work is precisely representational. Strong, flat colors contrast with the white fields in which the figures float, updating traditional Rajasthani miniature painting. To date, Dileep Sharma has held solo shows of his works in Mumbai, London and Seoul, Korea.

For more information or press reproductions, please contact Geeta Bajaj at (011) 4174-0215. Nature Morte is open Monday through Saturday, from 11am to 7pm and is closed on Sundays.

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