Vivan Sundaram: An artist who came of age in revolutionary times captured contemporary turmoil
His artwork and installations evoked the distress of the Gulf War and communal riots and put the spotlight on migration, pollution, and homelessness.
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His artwork and installations evoked the distress of the Gulf War and communal riots and put the spotlight on migration, pollution, and homelessness.
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Sundaram worked with different media – painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, installation and video art – during his career.
Sundaram’s retrospective exhibition is but a commemorative pause, celebrating the rich vitality of an ongoing quest.
One of the most important but undervalued events of India’s independence movement was the naval revolt of 1946, about which Indian historian Sumit Sarker wrote,