Art Exhibition - THUKRAL & TAGRA: "3227, Sector 23 (German Returned)"- at Nature Morte

Pic courtesy: http://www.naturemorte.com/exhibitions

What is the event?

THUKRAL & TAGRA: "3227, Sector 23 (German Returned)

A solo exhibition by the dynamic duo of Thukral & Tagra

“The desires, fantasies, hopes and dreams of The Great Indian Middle Class converge into an installation steeped in saccharine sweetness and morbid longing. Thukral & Tagra, living and working in Gurgaon, paint pictures of the garishly inappropriate mini-mansions that pop up like weeds all around them in this precocious satellite city of New Delhi. But these paeans to conspicuous consumption are not rooted in the soils of Mother India. Rather, they float on clouds of limpid pastels, trussed up by gossamer threads and floral tributes, more Heaven than Home, their facades of an ersatz Classicism and unrecognizable references signaling a whole-hearted embrace of a Post-Modern Globalization. T&T wallow in the contradictions, lathering on the Kitsch with a sardonic wink that acknowledges the ancestry of European Surrealism in the construction of the contemporary Indian identity, the vampiric relationship between fashion and prestige which has come to define our domiciles.”

Pic courtesy: http://www.naturemorte.com/exhibitions

Who are the Artists?

Thukral & Tagra

Jiten Thukral
Born 1976, Jalandhar, Punjab, India
The Artist Lives and Works in New Delhi
Education: 1998 BFA, Chandigarh Art College
2000 MFA, New Delhi College of Art

Sumir Tagra
Born 1979, New Delhi, India
The Artist Lives and Works in New Delhi
Education: 2002 BFA, New Delhi College of Art
2006 PG, National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad
1999 Shankar’s Academy of Arts, New Delhi

Where?

Nature Monte’s gallery space in the luxury retail arcade of The Oberoi hotel in Gurgaon. 

NATURE MORTE
THE OBEROI, GURGAON
443, Udyog Vihar, Phase-V,
Gurgaon-122016 INDIA
Gallery: (91) 124-4010443
Off. (91) 11- 2956-1596
info@naturemorte.com / nmoberoi@naturemorte.com
www.naturemorte.com

(Note: this exhibition is not in their main gallery space at A1 Neeti Bagh, New Delhi.)

When?

Opening on Friday, December 23rd from 6 to 9pm.
Exhibition continues to Tuesday, January 31st, 2012.

Contact:

Nature Morte at The Oberoi Gurgaon is open every day, from 11am to 9pm. For more information and press photographs please contact Rajeev Dhawan at (011) 2956-1596 or Gary Jacob at (0124) 4010443.