Anita Dube
Of Mimicry, Mimesis and Masquerade
Kamalnayan Bajaj Art Gallery 226, Bajaj Bhavan, (Ground Floor) Jamnalal Bajaj Road, Nariman Point, Mumbai, Maharashtra, IndiaMimicry reveals something in so far as it is distinct from what might be called itself that is behind. The effect of mimicry is camouflage, in the strictly technical sense It is not a question of harmonizing with the background, but against a mottled background, of becoming mottled - exactly like the technique of camouflage […]
Prussian Blue
Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, Noida HCL Technologies PVT. LTD, Plot No, 3A, SEZ, Sector 126, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, IndiaPrussian Blue: A Serendipitous Colour that Altered the Trajectory of Art As the name suggests, this survey exhibition explores artists' engagement with the colour Prussian Blue. Although Prussian Blue is widely used in the artist’s colour palette its uniqueness is relatively unknown, nor is its link between art and science. It was by accident in […]
The Devil in the Detail
Vadehra Art Gallery (D-53) D-53, Defence Colony, New Delhi, Delhi, IndiaDelhi-based artist Anita Dube’s oeuvre follows the corporeality of our individual and collective bodies, encapsulated in language, memory, history and mythology, by exploring the body as material and consequence, as possession and agent. Her well-regarded use of ceramic votive eyes, otherwise appearing in religious effigies, seek to resist the commodification of images and language, even […]