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Indepth Arts News:
"Nilima Sheikh: Painted Drawings"
1999-08-26 until 1999-09-16
Gallery Espace
New Delhi, ,
IN India
The new work of Nilima Sheikh at Gallery Espace (26th of August' 99 to
16th September'99) includes small format tempera pictures, larger works
on laminated Nepali and Sanganeri paper, and large 7 foot scroll. She
has, while using traditional methods, presented both contemporary
experience as well as older texts, some reinterpreted in the present
context. Her visual reading of the spiritual experiences of the great
female bhakti saint Mahadevi Akka of the south stand side by side with
her experiences while travelling, and with her responses to the Buddhist
Jataka Katha and she combines common traditions from sources as diverse
- and as similar- as India, China and Italy for example. In the process
of questioning certain central facets of modernism, Nilima Sheikh has
evolved a unique style which places her among the foremost artists
working with a new Indian aesthetic.
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