Anupam Sud's canvas fabulises our times

THE Journey A Full Circle', a solo art exhibition by Anupam Sud, has opened recently at Palette Art Gallery.

- Sadhvika Srinivas

It celebrates five decades of Sud's artistic journey, featuring over 60 works that highlight her evolution as one of India's most well known contemporary artists. From her etchings of the 1970s to the innovative print collages created during the pandemic, the showcase captures the depth of her mastery and exploration.

"This exhibition that spans two distinct periods of my practice the early 1970s and the more recent 2010s comes at a transformative time when the rigours of printmaking are making it difficult for me to continue as a printmaker. It is, therefore, a good time to look back to see how the meticulous learning of printmaking techniques, the choice and use of materials, and the social environment from which I derived my images and compositions, have shaped my practice of six decades," says Sud.

She further added that it is a time to reflect on how the concerns of an urban society, as experienced by her and manifested in her printmaking, have changed over time in any meaningful manner.