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Art veteran Akbar Padamsee's works are on display in the city from Saturday. After two years in the making, 30 oil works on canvas from artist Akbar Padamsee will be on display this
weekend, in a solo show after a long time. Priyasri Patodia, founder and director of Priyasri Art Gallery will be hosting this collection, Past Forward, and says, “One cannot categorise
Akbar Padamsee or confine him to a period or category; he occupies a very experimental space of his own.” Akbar’s practice, which covers six decades, is based primarily on a meticulous
revisiting of three genres: the nude, the head and the landscape. Nancy Adajania, cultural theorist, art critic and independent curator, says, “One brings a very different expectation to the
viewing of recent work by an artist such as Akbar. One does not look for the trace of the new; rather, one retraces the mysterious processes of renewal that continue to propel and inspire
an artistic quest. In his work Akbar revisits a dynamic process.” The artist’s chosen genres are inexhaustible tropes that deal with the notions of the seemingly at-hand but in fact always
out-of-reach body, the enigmatic presence of the Other, and the urgent proximity yet terrifying distance and unknowability of nature, Nancy explains. WHEN & WHERE: April 27-May 15,
Priyasri Art Gallery, Worii