FEB 19, 2015 I ND
Raza has exhibited widely in India as well as internationally. He has been the recipient of many accolades including the prestigious Padma Shri Award by the President of India in 1981, the Padma Bhushan in 2007 and the Padma Vibhushan in 2013. Raza lives and works in Delhi.
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On the eve of one of the legendary and most revered modernist painter of India S.H. Raza’s 93rd birthday, Vadehra Art Gellery of New Delhi has dedicate a solo show ARAMBH to the artist. The show is open to the public from 22 February – 18th March 2015 at Vadehra Art Gallery.
The works in ‘Aarambh’ form part of a new body of work executed over the course of the past year and are to be exhibited to the public for the first time. The exhibition includes forty-four canvases and paperworks by the artist.
As Raza turns 93, there is no let up in his creative energy, passion for colour and its immense possibilities, and his relentless search for spiritual form. He has a huge reputation as a master colourist who has explored in visual terms some metaphysical concepts about the universe, nature, male-female energies, environment etc. His iconic Bindu remains at the centre of both his plastic imagination and spiritual quest. Many of the new works created in 2014-15 reveal a master making new discoveries and forging new combinations embodying in fresh ways his enduring vision of the world and art. For him art is the whole world and, by the same token, the whole world is art.
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Arun Vadehra,
Director Vadehra Art Gallery |
"Over the last 25 years some of my fondest memories are of visiting Raza at his home in Paris. Many evenings were spent enjoying flowing conversation over fine wine discussing art, life and much else. It is because of these periodic visits to his apartment, often months apart, that I have been able to see Raza’s development as a painter and moreover, the evolution of Indian art itself."
Born in Babaria, Madhya Pradesh in 1922, Raza studied at Sir JJ School of Art, Mumbai and the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris. A member of the post-Independence Bombay Progressive Artists’ Group, Raza is considered to be one of India’s most renowned artists and continues to inspire contemporary south asian artists.
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