Delhi: Waswo X. Waswo & R. Vijay’s Collaborative New Miniatures Exhibit, Like a Leaf in Autumn, Opens in the Capital
Gallery Espace | Oct 11 – Nov 11
Gallery Espace opens Like A Leaf in Autumn, a solo exhibition by Waswo X. Waswo & R. Vijay on October 11. The exhibition will showcase a suite of miniature paintings conceptualised by Waswo and executed by R. Vijay.
Waswo X. Waswo with R. Vijay
A Day on the Farm
Gouache on wasli
Size: 9.5 x 24 inches
Year 2018
Waswo is an American photographer and poet, while R Vijay (short for Ramgopal Vijayvargiya) is a skilled miniature painter from Udaipur. Their collaboration, going back over a decade, has resulted in a series of contemporary miniatures whose composition and style are reminiscent of Mughal miniature paintings or Nathdwara pichwais.
Waswo X. Waswo with R. Vijay
The Refugee
Gouache on wasli
Size: 12 x 24 inches
Year 2018
Their subtexts and subjects, however, touch upon the here and now – the legacy of colonialism, the problem of refugees, and such like. Waswo himself is the protagonist in many of the paintings, dressed incongruously in a white suite, or polka-dotted underwear, in a stereotypical mise en scene of the white male tourist/colonialist confronted by and confronting exotic India.
The miniatures are multi-layered and dense in their narratives with minute detailing. The set of miniatures at the gallery are characterised by exquisitely wrought borders that are dense and minutely detailed.
The exhibition will continue until November 11.
