Nature more is pleased to participate in the inaugural edition of Frieze Seoul in South Korea this fall. We will be displaying a selection of recent works by artists Jitish Kallat, Manish Nai, Sarah Meyohas, Suhasini Kejriwal, and Thukral & Tagra.
FRIEZE SEOUL
Sightings, 2017
Sightings are a suite of lenticular prints that play with scale and colour to unveil telescopic snapshots of distant cosmic phenomena on close-up views of fruit surfaces. Each of the lenticular prints integrates images of the skin of common fruits as our eyes perceive it, with its chromatic opposite—an image made up of the colours that the fruit surface absorbs and which are invisible to the human eye. As a viewer changes her position with respect to the photo-piece, these double images begin to flip, revealing their opposites. What at first seemed like an image of a distant constellation or a supernova explosion is revealed to be the skin of an orange or a peach and vice versa. The galactic and terrestrial merge and a spectacular ‘sighting’ of the cosmos is made possible within the mundane, inviting the viewer to speculate on the unity of all matter in the Universe; from the microscopic to the cosmic, all animated by the same stellar energy. The cryptic code in the title denotes the day, month and year when the artist walked to the Pali Naka market near his home in Mumbai to buy these fruits.
ABOUT NATURE MORTE
Founded in New York's East Village in 1982 and closed in 1988, Peter Nagy revived Nature Morte in New Delhi in 1997 as a commercial gallery and a curatorial experiment. Since then, Nature Morte has become synonymous in India with challenging and experimental forms of art; championing conceptual, lens-based, and installation genres and representing a generation of Indian artists who have gone on to international exposure. The gallery now has two exhibition spaces in New Delhi. The main gallery is located at the Dhan Mill complex in the Chhatarpur area, in the extreme south of the city. Within this mixed-use complex comprised of boutiques, cafes and artists’ studios, Nature Morte occupies a 400 square meter space on the ground floor at the center of the complex, where we host our major exhibitions. In addition, a secondary gallery is in the neighborhood of Vasant Vihar, measuring 70 square meters and used for smaller shows. The Vasant Vihar space also houses the gallery’s offices, private viewing rooms, and expanded storage.
In addition, the gallery has maintained multiple branches in various locations: Berlin (2008-2014), Calcutta (2006-2009), and at the Oberoi Gurgaon hotel (2011-2014). Nature Morte also hosts large scale exhibitions in the Famous Studios, Mumbai annually. The gallery is owned by its co-directors: Aparajita Jain and Peter Nagy.
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