Chatterjee & Lal  was a part of India Art Fair 2020 which was held in New Delhi from January 31 – February 3. The booth included works of artists :

Install shot | Chatterjee & Lal

Nikhil Chopra

Drawing resides at the heart of Nikhil Chopra’s performance-based practice. Over the last decade he has used diverse unconventional surfaces to bring alive his mark making, including paper, walls, pavements, ceilings, as well as large swathes of cloth and canvas. Landscapes constitute the majority of these works. Often these landscapes are the very same ones into which the artist is about to journey. Amongst many major institutional exhibitions, Nikhil Chopra was included in Documenta 14, 2017; Yinchuan Biennale, China, 2018; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2019.

Nasreen Mohamedi

Nasreen Mohamedi was an artist and educator, active from the early 1960s until her early death in 1990. Having trained in London and Paris, she pursued her career mainly in India. Recognised as a leading abstractionist of her generation, her legacy has only grown since her death. Mohamedi’s works have been exhibited at The Metropolitan Museum, New York; Tate Liverpool; and The Reina Sofia in Madrid.

Riten Mozumdar

Mozumdar graduated from Santiniketan in 1950, with a diploma in art. In addition to his gallery practice, he worked as a textile designer for brands such as Printex-Marimekko and Fabindia; he was also a consultant to the famous Delhi-based furniture company, TAARU. Throughout his lifetime, his designs and artworks were exhibited widely both in India and outside the country including: Museum of Modern Art, New York 1953 – 1954; Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York 1971; Museum of Decorative Arts, Copenhagen 1971; American Museum of Crafts, New York 1985

Kausik Mukhopadhyay

Kausik Mukhopadhyay’s kinetic and static installations are made by repurposing old electronic items. The artworks are at once whimsical and disturbing. With the artist having devoted much of the last twenty years to teaching, his work has rarely been seen publicly. Kausik Mukhopadhyay has been shown at The Tate Modern, London; National Gallery of Modern Art, India; Serendipity Arts Festival, Goa; and Pittsburgh International Festival of Firsts, Pittsburgh 2018.

Arthur Bunder Press

A printmaking workshop at Chatterjee & Lal. For ten days in 2019, Chatterjee & Lal was transformed into THE ARTHUR BUNDER PRESS, COLABA, the site of a workshop facilitated by Prati, The Atelier. Positioned at the intersection of an erstwhile press, an artist’s studio and a gallery, the workshop encouraged participating artists to explore different printmaking processes. Visitors to the gallery during the workshop were able to watch as artists worked, collaborated and ideated together over different approaches to mark-making.
Participating artists: Minam Apang, Amshu Chukki, Madhu Das, Ratna Gupta, Madhao Imartey, Ranjit Kandalgaonkar, Areez Katki, Gieve Patel, Rupali Patil, Mark Prime, Gagan Singh, Nityan Unnikrishnan.

Sahej Rahal

Sahej Rahal’s body of work is a growing narrative that draws upon mythical beings, and brings them into a dialogue with the present. Within this narrative, these beings perform absurd acts in derelict corners of the city, transforming the spaces into liminal sites of ritual. The temporal act and its residue become primary motifs in his practice. Sahej Rahal’s participation includes Vancouver Biennale 2014; Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2014; Liverpool Biennale 2016; Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne 2019; and Gwangju Biennale, South Korea 2020.

Rustom Siodia

Rustom Siodia was a painter, illustrator, and essayist. A product of Sir J.J. School of Art and the Royal Academy in London – where he was the first Parsee and perhaps first Indian to be enrolled – he was most active between 1915 and 1939. Although today best remembered for his portraits, his innovative landscapes and historical paintings reveal a singular artistic vision, quite unlike anyone else working
at that time in India. He received major commissions at institutions such as the Royal Opera House in Bombay and the Imperial Secretariat (later to become Rashtrapati Bhavan) in New Delhi.

Nityan Unnikrishnan

Nityan Unnikrishnan grew up in Kerala along with the intellectual milieu of a world populated by left leaning filmmakers, painters and academics. He creates paintings from a myriad of sources, both real and imaginary, including elements from his childhood and his working life. He creates a dynamic relationship between the individual self and landscape. These surreal inversions of reality take the viewer to the interior world of the subject and, by default, to the world of the artist himself.