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| Bharti Kher, Hungry Dogs Eat Dirty Pudding, 2004. Photo by Herry Lawford |
LACMA is making an effort to display modern and contemporary art of the Indian subcontinent. Planned for 2027 is an exhibition of the British-born Indian artist Bharti Kher. Melding the hybrid forms of Indian folk art with Dada-esque provocation, Kher's art is widely exhibited in India and Europe, yet is hardly known in the U.S. The exhibition will be LACMA's first solo show of a living Indian artist.
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| Bharti Kher, Black disturbance, high frequency, 2015 |
The small dots are stick-on bindis, a modern version of the ash dot worn on the forehead by Hindu and Jain women.
Comments
> LACMA's first solo show
> of a living Indian artist.
I just hope it's not in a gallery located next to old Indian/Southeast-Asian sculptures and paintings, presumably in the Geffen. However, the LA Times art critic implied the current Realms of the Dharma exhibit in the Resnick indicates a lot of its works (obviously) - some from India - won't therefore be in the Geffen upon its debut.
It's patronizing when curators believe that a contemporary artist's race, ethnicity or home nation somehow requires that his or her works be located based on country, race, geography.
Kher's works look quite similar (style-wise, design-wise, era-wise) to what's in a gallery at Hauser & Writh, the Broad or BCAM, etc.
As for the Whitney, its mission statement of being into American art and American-based artists, has to me always seemed too provincial and limit its full potential.