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The Guild art gallery
is delighted to present an exhibition by acclaimed film maker and artist
Madhusudhanan at Alibaug, showing a new suite of works, including an
award winning film ‘Razor Blood and Other Tales’.
“Among his recent paintings, we
see the calisthenics of history performed in a time of precarity: Lenin’s
head being airlifted or carried on a wheel barrow of inflatable sand bags
(war and genocide having become recurrent features in a post-communist
world) or the symbol of heroism and power, the equestrian statue blown off
its pedestal. But then we find this glowing robe miraculously suspended in
the air next to Lenin, as he exits the pages of history. Is this a new
ideological garb waiting for its wearer? Or is it a robe of redemption, a
shirt sloughed off like old skin in Piero della Francesca’s ‘The Baptism of
Christ’? Is it too much to hope for deliverance from the endless cycle of
death and death? When the books burn at Fahrenheit 451, do we see the
spectres of Indian Emergency or Nazism? Does the scission in Vasco da Gama’s
foreshortened portrait project our schizoid post-colonial selves, held
together by a bunch of tasseled bulbs?” - Nancy Adajania
Madhusudhanan was born in 1956 in Alappuzha, a coastal
district in Kerala. He Studied Painting at Fine Arts College,
Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, and Print Making at the Faculty of Fine Arts,
M.S. University, Baroda.
Madhusudhanan’s Museum and
institutional shows include: Pond
Near the Field: Five Artists from Kerala, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA),
New Delhi, curated by Roobina Karode, 2015, and collaborative show with
Kochi Muziris Biennale by KNMA at Madhavan Nayar Foundation; The Penal
Colony and The Marx Archive: The Logic of Disappearance, 56th
Venice Biennale, 2015, curated by Okwui Enwezor; The Marx Archive: The
Logic of Disappearance, Kochi-Muziris B iennale 2014 curated by Jitish
Kallat; Part
Narratives, Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, curated by Gayatri Sinha, 2017;
Solo shows: Babel, The Guild, Alibaug, 2017; Penal
Colony, Vadehra Art Gallery, 2016; other select group shows - Horses
in the Air, 2017, Vadehra Art Gallery; Art Basel, Hongkong, 2016 by
Vadehra Art Gallery; Aesthetic Bind Citizen Artist: forms of address, Chemould
Prescott Road, Mumbai, curated by Geeta Kapur, 2013.
His films have garnered a number
of awards: Special
Jury Awards, National Film Awards, India; Special Jury Award for
Direction, Kerala State Film Awards; Best Cinematography, Kerala
State Film Awards; Best
Editing, Kerala State Film Awards; Special Mention Jury Award,
Mannheim-Heidelberg International Festival, Germany; Best Cinematography,
SAIFF, New York; Thessaloniki Festival, Greece; Outstanding Film from
International Festivals, MoMA and others.
A comprehensive book on art and films of
Madhusudhanan published by The Guild will be released during the preview.
For further information or
images please do write to us at theguildart@gmail.com
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