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The art patron was a rigorous student of post-war and contemporary art who designed her homes around her collection
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The art patron was a rigorous student of post-war and contemporary art who designed her homes around her collection
"He was not just a brilliant artist and an activist but a remarkable and honest person," stated Prabhat Patnaik, his friend and economist, at the memorial programme organised by the Safdar Hashmi Memorial Trust (Sahmat) on April 17 at Jawahar Bhavan in Delhi.
Sundaram's memorial programme held at Jawahar Bhavan included an exhibition of pictures and videos from his life and works from his artistic career that spanned over six decades.
Both his life and work, inevitably, are deeply intertwined with all of 20th century India as he moved from colonial histories to those of contemporary radical activism, from Nehruvian nationalism to hallucinating images of dystopian globalisation.
Multi-disciplinary practitioner was inspired by the 1968 Paris demonstrations to organise artist and student group protests during Indira Gandhi's Emergency rule of 1975-77