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Pirelli HangarBicocca is pleased to invite you to the opening of
Sheela Gowda
Remains
Curated by Nuria Enguita and Lucia Aspesi
Wednesday 3 April 2019, 7 PM
Preview Members-only: reserved access to the exhibition from 5.30 PM to 6.30 PM
4 April – 15 September 2019
Thursday-Sunday 10 AM – 10 PM
FREE ADMISSION
Sheela Gowda (Bhadravati, Karnataka, India, 1957; lives and works in Bangalore) is one of the leading names in contemporary art in India. “Remains” is the first major solo show of works by Sheela Gowda in Italy and it is a unique opportunity to discover more than twenty years of the artist’s production. The exhibition includes a wide selection of site-specific installations and sculptures, as well as watercolors and prints, ranging from 1996 through the present day, in addition to a new production conceived for the space of the Navate of Pirelli HangarBicocca.
Sheela Gowda has developed her practice through a constant dialog and exchange between local artistic traditions and international forms of art. She initially trained in painting in an academic context shaped by a remarkable Indian modernist tradition, along with a contemporary interpretation of popular imagery and craftsmanship. Returning from London in the mid-1980s after completing her studies at the Royal College of Art, Gowda started her transition from the pictorial space to three-dimensional works, through direct manipulation and confrontation with a series of new materials that she gradually added to her work, such as hair, incense, pigments and cow dung.
The exhibition attempts to highlight both Gowda’s poetic and her political practices, grounded on a thoughtful and perceptive view of the world, accompanied by an awareness of the symbolic and communicative value of matter, objects and their remains.
For the artist the liturgy—the transformative ritual that occurs during a highly performance-based process of manipulation, confrontation and conversation with her materials—remains fundamental. Sheela Gowda redefines the pathos of things, their feelings and affections; a relational condition between objects, their reasons for being and their behaviors. It is a “moment of encounter,” understood not as a moment in time but as a kind of force that allows a particular set of circumstances to come together. Discover more
Public Program | Sheela Gowda
From Distance to Intimacy
Saturday 6 April 2019, 11 AM
A walk through the exhibition in the company of Jessica Morgan, Director of Dia Art Foundation in New York, and Sheela Gowda on the occasion of the exhibition “Remains”. The dialog will follow the exhibition display in a strict relationship with the artworks, offering the public a unique opportunity to discover Gowda’s oeuvre accompanied by the vision of one of the most distinguished international contemporary art curators. Read more
The conversation will be held in English
Free admission, seating limited. Booking available for Pirelli HangarBicocca Members only, by clicking here
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Sheela Gowda, And that is no lie, 2015. Installation view, Pérez Art Museum Miami, 2015–16. Courtesy of the artist and Pérez Art Museum Miami. Photo: Oriol Tarridas
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