Pseudorealist Art in Hyderabad
As a centre of art, Hyderabad had always been a poor sister of Delhi And Mumbai. Vaikunthan, perhaps the most important Hyderabad based artist had led the art market in Hyderabad and dictated the galleries in most matters. Other Hyderabad based artists like Laxma Goud, Laxman Alley also got national recognition. Nonetheless Hyderabad's artists seldom moved out of their traditional arena and produced anything different. Most of ther works talk about rural folk. Most of the artists also follow a narrative style of working. Hyderabad is over-saturated with such works.
It was therefore heartening to see that two of Hyderabad's best known galleries Kalakriti and Shrishti are trying to rope in avant-garde Indian artists like Devajyoti Ray. Shrishti is doing a show of the artist at New Delhi's Sridharani Gallery in October. The show will then travel to Hyderabad.
Ray would be quite a novelty in Hyderabad's stagnating art scene. His bold new international style of pseudorealism has been seen very little in Hyderabad. Ray is an urban artist. His style, his narration, his genre is all rooted in urban envirionment, something that viewers in Hyderabad are not quite used to. Success of Ray will perhaps make the galleries in Hyderabad become bolder.
Videos on Ray The Telegraph on Ray Planet Art Gallery Yande on Devajyoti Ray
