Vinod Dave’s work in the Whitney Biennial 2022.

 

Vinod Dave’s work is now in the Whitney biennial 2022. Vinod’s work was added to the legendary show by artist Nayland Blake on June 11, 2022. Vinod participated in a project jointly collaborated by Nayland and the museum in which Nayland acquired Vinod’s work by exchange of giving one of his works to Vinod. Vinod’s work will be on display at the Whitney on the museum’s 3rd floor in the Red Room till the end of the biennial which is till September 5, 2022. Since Vinod’s work was added to the biennial after the biennial’s official start date, it is not in any already published documentation like catalog, flyers etc. Vinod was asked to specially create a work for the project.

Anyone in New York should go to the biennial to see this. For those who cannot make it to the show, Vinod’s work is published here.

Details of the work:

“Nothing”

11 x 8.5 inch

MS Word + laser print + pen on paper

June 11, 2022

Vinod Dave among India’s Rockefeller Artists: An Indo-U.S. Cultural Saga is a new exhibition by DAG in Mumbai, which is showcasing iconic works by some of India's greatest painters.

Art for Art’s sake is the unravelling and sharing of art for the sheer joy of it. And that pleasure increases multifold when the setting compliments that sentiment. At their gallery sitting in a heritage building of the beautiful Kala Ghoda in the Fort Area of Mumbai, DAG held a private viewing last night of its new exhibition ‘India’s Rockefeller Artists: An Indo-U.S. Cultural Saga’.  

Art enthusiasts take a look at the painting displayed at DAG Kala Ghoda

 

Over enriching conversations, mocktails and canapés, special invitees feasted their eyes on a wide array of paintings and a few sculptures. Tyeb Mehta’s seminal work ‘Gesture’ held centrestage along with the spellbinding ‘Evasion’, which was legendary SH Raza’s abstract attempt to eradicate the memory of his homeland India during his long years of living in France. 

A very unique ‘Untitled’ on display by another legend Akbar Padamsee is the study of a supine nude, as he delineates the forms contours, deliberately leaving out the face. Asleep and its face left blank, it turns resolutely away from the viewer into a private space, declining any engagement.   

A mixed-media work "Hawks of a Dreamland" by Vinod Dave

 

The exhibition which is open for general viewing and is open to all between November 29, 2018, and February 16, 2019, basically showcases iconic works of the Indian painters and sculptors who travelled to the US on grants enabled by John D. Rockefeller III’s philanthropic vision, first through the JDR 3rd Fund (1963–1979) and then through the Asian Cultural Council.

In the US, these artists saw, observed, assimilated and understood the American palette and shared their own learnings and experiences through a cultural exchange. 

The show examines why and how these artists were selected; their relationships with each other and the American art milieu; the impact of the experience on their body of work; and the creation of a community of Rockefeller artists.

 "A Still Life with Parrot" by Jyoti Bhatt

The grant benefitted some of India’s most important artists, whose work has been put on show at the exhibition. Among them is VS Gaitonde, whose work formed the subject of a retrospective at the Guggenheim, New York, in 2013; Tyeb Mehta, one of the most widely collected artists in private and public collections, Bhupen Khakhar, who was the subject of a retrospective at Tate Modern, in 2016; Natvar Bhavsar - his works proved to be a major draw at Art Shanghai 2018; Akbar Padamsee, Ram Kumar, Bal Chhabda and Krishen Khanna, all associates of the then Bombay-based Progressive Artists’ Group.  

Jyoti Bhatt, K. G. Subramanyan, A. M. Davierwala, Avinash Chandra, Arun Bose, Paritosh Sen, KS Kulkarni, Vinod Dave, Bhupen Khakhar and Rekha Rodwittiya are some of the others whose select works can be seen.

Untitled  by Parotosh Sen

This exhibition is accompanied by a 500-page publication. A product of extensive research from the Rockefeller and artists’ archives, the documentation includes interviews with the living artists and surviving family members of others, along with rare photographs. Published by DAG, the catalogue tells the stories of India’s Rockefeller artists and their art as a testimony to JDR III’s impact on the Indian art landscape.

"The City is Not Burning" by K G Subramanyan

DAG was established as a private art gallery in 1993 in New Delhi. Over the past 25 years, DAG has built a quality collection of artworks that represent the expanse of Indian works from the seventeenth century onwards. Its extensive collection over the past two decades also charts a historic continuum, from the early works of academic artists trained in Bengal and Bombay, to modernists from Baroda, Delhi and beyond.  

 

Vinod Dave as One of "India's Rockefeller Artists" Mega Exhibition

DAG Modern presents India’s Rockefeller Artists: An Indo-U.S. Cultural Saga in its New York gallery at 41 East 57th Street at the Fuller Building in Midtown, Manhattan. The exhibition, from Nov. 6, 2017 to March 2018, showcases iconic works of the Indian painters and sculptors who travelled to the US on grants enabled by John D. Rockefeller III’s philanthropic vision, first through the JDR 3rd Fund (1963–1979) and then through the Asian Cultural Council.

These artists were brought to the US to see and understand American art and also to share their own learnings and experiences through a cultural exchange that would enrich communities. The show examines why and how these artists were selected; their relationships with each other and the American art milieu; the impact of the experience on their body of work; and the creation of a community of Rockefeller artists.

The grant benefited some of India’s most important artists, among them V.S. Gaitonde, whose work formed the subject of a retrospective at the Guggenheim, New York, in 2013; Tyeb Mehta, one of the most widely collected artists in private and public collections; Akbar Padamsee, Ram Kumar, Bal Chhabda and Krishen Khanna, all associates of the then Bombay-based Progressive Artists’ Group. Natvar Bhavsar, Jyoti Bhatt, K.G. Subramanyan, A.M. Davierwala, Avinash Chandra, Arun Bose, Paritosh Sen, K.S. Kulkarni, Vinod Dave, Bhupen Khakhar and Rekha Rodwittiya were some of the others whose contribution to Indian art practice in the twentieth century has been seminal.

Vinod Dave was the first Indian artist to win this fellowship after the Rockefeller 3rd Fund became Asian Cultural Council. The name change for the foundation was required after Mr. Rockefeller's death. Mr. Rockefeller was personally financing the foundation and that stopped with his passing away. Asian Cultural Council, the new name for the foundation was coined to continue the same goals JDR 3rd Fund had but now with money raised from donors. So ACC became both grant seeking and grant giving institution. With the name Rockefeller associated with its old name, what donor would want to give money? Hence, the new name Asian Cultural Council.

This exhibition is accompanied by a 500-page publication. A product of extensive research from the Rockefeller and artists’ archives, the documentation includes interviews with the living artists and surviving family members of others, along with rare photographs. Published by DAG Modern, the catalogue tells the stories of India’s Rockefeller artists and their art as a testimony to JDR III’s impact on the Indian art landscape.

Attached are some images from the opening reception that took place on November 6, 2017. Also Vinod Dave's

works that are part of this.

VINOD DAVE WAS AWARDED TWO PRESTIGIOUS FELLOWSHIPS IN 2013. ONE FROM POLLOCK-KRASNER FOUNDATION & THE OTHER FROM JOAN MITCHELL  FOUNDATION. NEWS HERE.  THIS HAPPENS FOLLOWING FOLLOWING THE GOTTLIEB FOUNDATION FELLOWSHIP THAT HE WAS AWARDED IN 2011/12. 

READ AN ARTICLE ON HIS GOTTLIEB AWARD 

HERE
THE REAL COUNT FOR HIS 2013 AWARDS IS THREE INCLUDING A GRANT SMALL IN SIZE BUT BIG ON ITS SOURCE - THE ILLUSTRIOUS HB STUDIO OF NEW YORK.  

COLORVinod Dave

The suggestive potentiality of color is a graphic tool in art. But life has always preceded art & color has been in life before it ever penetrated art. Sociocultural life worldwide sustains the basic affinity to color as an expression of festivities & sorrows alike. Color may be the same as a visual element on its own, but its appropriation within a coalescing surrounding &/or against a protruding background makes it generate multifarious moods. Color photography is only “colored black & white” if it does not distinguish this.