Nature Morte is pleased to present our fifth solo show with artist LN Tallur and first in our Dhan Mill gallery space in New Delhi.

The exhibition will consist of a number of new bronze sculptures, in various scales, as well as works in other materials. With titles such as Fire Wall, Code Keepers, Data Weave, Digital Sage, and Deep Learning, the artist reveals his interest in on-going developments in computer science, with special regard to Artificial Intelligence. As is his customary style, Tallur starts with traditional Asian sculptures and transforms them into contemporary avatars. Beginning with the original visuals of these sculptures, he expands their meanings into unexpected territories. Subjects such as human physiology, religious mythology, moral and ethical dilemmas, and how they interface with computer science occupy the artist's mind.

In the side gallery there is a three-part work entitled Deep Learning PI (Portable Intelligence). In the form of shelves with drawers and storage, Tallur catalogues the works that he has exhibited with Nature Morte in the course of our twenty-year relationship. In this work, Tallur tries to teach the artificial neural networks to mimic his own works and handholds an AI toddler to grow up in the right direction. AI creates its own miniaturised versions based on Tallur's previous works. The work comments on the narcissistic attributes of the obsession with archives but also the commodification of art works through their reproduction.

LN Tallur was born in 1971 in Karnataka and now divides his time between South India and South Korea. He received a BFA in Painting from Chamarajendra Academy of Visual Arts, Mysore (1996), an MFA in Museology from Maharaja Sayajirao University, Vadodara (1998), and an MA in Contemporary Fine Art Practice from Leeds Metropolitan University, UK (2002).

Tallur’s works have been exhibited internationally, including at solo gallery exhibitions in Germany, South Korea, India, China, and the United States. In 2020 he had a major survey exhibition at the Grounds for Sculpture in Hamilton, New Jersey, United States, entitled Interference Fringe and in 2023 the Museum of Art & Photography (MAP) in Bangalore presented his solo show Chirag-e-Al as part of their inaugural celebrations. In the past few years he has been commissioned to create permanent works for the CSMVS Museum in Mumbai, the Linden Museum in Stuttgart, Germany, and the Kempegowda International Airport in Bangalore. Selected group exhibitions include The Idea of the Acrobat, Nature Morte at Bikaner House, New Delhi (2020); The Sculpture Park at Madhavendra Palace (2018, 2017); India and the World: History in Nine Stories, CSMVS Museum, Mumbai and National Museum, New Delhi (2017); Constructs/Constructions, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi (2015), After Midnight: Indian Modernism to Contemporary India 1947/1997, Queens Museum, New York (2015); The 7th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT7), Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia (2012); Critical Mass: Contemporary Art from India, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel (2011); Meditation: Asian Art Biennial, National Taiwan Museum, Taiwan (2011); The Empire Strikes Back: Indian Art Today, Saatchi Gallery, London (2010) and La Route de la Soie, Tri Postal, France (2010).

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