Archana Hande All is Fair in Magic White
February 26, 2009

Archana Hande: All is Fair in Magic White
Nature Morte Annex: February 26 - March 21, 2009
Opening on Thursday, February 26th, from 6 to 8pm

Nature Morte will present new works by the Mumbai-based artist Archana Hande. Entitled "All is Fair in Magic White," the exhibition is primarily pictures made by the traditional method of block-printing on fabric with a twist. The artist has carved various characters, symbols, icons and scenographic elements from wooden blocks and combines them into rebus-like pictures. These are both self-contained pictures and long, narrative scrolls, both of which feed into an animated video which will be on view. The works employ traditional Indian picture-making and decorative techniques while the subject matter is wholly contemporary, speaking of the dual strains of urbanisation and globalization taking place throughout India today.

Archana Hande studied at the Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan and the Faculty of Fine Arts at M.S. University, Baroda and currently lives in Mumbai. She has had solo shows at Gallery Chemould and Lakeeren in Mumbai and Gallery Sumukha in Bangalore. Her works have also been included in important group shows such as the Guangzhou Triennale in China, the Yokohama Triennale in Japan, "India Express" at the Helsinki City Art Museum, "Horn Please" at the Kunstmuseum of Bern, and "The Edge of Desire" at the Asia Society in New York. This is her first show with Nature Morte and a parallel exhibition of works entitled "Relics of Grey" will be held at the School of Art and Aesthetics, Jawahar Nehru University in New Delhi from the 7th to the 30th of March;

Nature Morte Annex is located at A-9, Shivalik Main Road, New Delhi-110017.
For more information and press photographs, please contact the Gallery Manager, Geeta Bajaj, at (011) 41740215 or Rajeev Dhawan at (011) 29561596. For Gallery direction call contact Monica Singh at (011) 46557472. or email at: info@naturemorte.com.

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