Rita Datta
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Published 23.01.21, 01:55 AM
A title is an anchor, but also a limiting tether. So Cima chooses to call its current show, on till January 30,
Untitled. It traces how, from vintage modernism to the fizz of contemporary colloquialism, concerns recur through stylistic shifts that five generations of Indian artists have negotiated.
If Jamini Roy’s post-Impressionism approaches the landscape with Wordsworthian romanticism, Paramjit Singh’s dense brushwork makes it an immersive experience. Gaunt, famished, existing on the margins, Somnath Hore’s figures in his etchings appear as non-beings in their abdication of agency, dissolving, in
Massacre, into smears the colour of dried blood; the marginalized remain fearful and mute in