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Tyeb Mehta

BORN
July 26, 1925, Kapadvanj, Gujarat

 

DIED
July 2, 2009, Mumbai

 

EDUCATION QUALIFICATIONS
1947-52 Diploma in Painting, Sir JJ School of Arts, Bombay

 

SELECTED POSTHUMOUS EXHIBITIONS
2014 Sacred Scared, Latitude 28 Gallery, New Delhi
2013 Pioneers of Modernism, Sovereign FZE, Dubai
2013 Ideas of the Sublime, presented by Vadehra Art Gallery at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
2012 Modernist Art from India Approaching Abstraction, Rubin Museum of Art, New York
2012 Extending the Line, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
2012 Crossings Time Unfolded, Part 2, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA), New Delhi
2011-12 Modernist Art from India The Body Unbound, Rubin Museum of Art, New York
2011 Ethos V Indian Art Through the Lens of History (1900 to 1980), Indigo Blue Art, Singapore
2011 Manifestations VI, Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi
2011 Roots in the Air, Branches Below Modern & Contemporary Art from India, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose
2011 Tyeb Mehta Triumph of Vision, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
2011 Time Unfolded, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art ( KNMA), New Delhi
2010 The Progressives & Associates, Grosvenor Gallery, London
2010 Evolve 10th Anniversary Show, Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai
2010 Masters of Maharashtra, Lalit Kala Akademi collection, New Delhi at Piramal Gallery, National Centre of the Performing Arts (NCPA), Bombay
2009 Bharat Ratna! Jewels of Modern Indian Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

 

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1998 Vadhera Art Gallery, New Delhi
1996 Celebrations, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
1990 Birla Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata
1990 Art Heritage, New Delhi
1988 Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh
1986 Gallery Chemould, Bombay
1986 Nandan, Kala Bhavan, Vishwa -Bharati, Santiniketan
1976 Black Partridge Art Gallery, New Delhi
1969, 71 Kunika-Chemould Gallery, New Delhi
1968 Commonwealth Institute Art Gallery, London
1966 Taj Art Gallery, Bombay
1966, 67 Kumar Gallery, New Delhi
1956,68,71,76,84,86,90 Gallery Chemould, Bombay
1962 Bear Lane Gallery, Oxford
1962 Gallery One, London
1959 Gallery 59, Bombay

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009 Long Gone & Living Now, Gallerie Mirchandani Steinreucke, Mumbai
2009 Progressive to Altermodern 62 Years of Indian Modern Art, Grosvenor Gallery, London
2009 Kalpana Figurative Art in India, presented by The Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) at Aicon Gallery, London, The Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR)
2008 Multiple Modernities India, 1905-2005, Philadelphia Museum of Art, USA
2008 Freedom 2008 - Sixty Years of Indian Independence, Center for International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata
2007- 08 India Art Now Between Continuity and Transformation, Province of Milan, Milan, Italy
2004 Concept and Form, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
2001 Ashtha Nayak - an Exhibition of Eight Artists, Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai
2001 Century City - Art and Culture in the Modern Metropolis, Tate Modern, London
2001 Modern Indian Art, organized by SaffronArt and Pundole Art Gallery, Metropolitan Pavilion, New York
2000 A Global View Indian Artists at Home in the World, organized by The Fine Art Resource, Mumbai at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
1998 Contemporary Indian Art, organized by Vadehra Art Gallery at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
1997 Tryst with Destiny Art From Modern India, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore 1997 50 Years of Art in Bombay
1947-1997, National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Mumbai
1997 Indian Contemporary Art Post Independence, organized by Vadehra Art Gallery, National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Mumbai
1996 Chamatkara Myth and Magic in Indian Art, Whitley Art Gallery, London
1994 Seven Indian Painters, organized by Gallery Le Monde de l Art, Paris
1993 Trends and Images, Center for International Modern Art (CIMA), Calcutta
1993 Wounds, Organized by the Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA), Calcutta in New Delhi
1989 Timeless Art, organized by The Times of India in conjunction with the auction conducted by Sotheby's, London
1988 17 Indian Painters, Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay
1987 Auction conducted by Christie's London for Helpage, India
1987 Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad
1987 Artists Today East-West Encounters, organized by Max Mueller Bhavan, Bombay at Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay
1986 Coups-de-Coeur exhibition of Paintings Indies, Geneva
1985 Contemporary Indian Painters, Festival of India in the USA, Grey Art Gallery, New York
1982 Contemporary Indian Art, Festival of Indian Art, Royal Academy of Arts, London
1982 India, Myth and Reality, Museum of Modern Art, London of Modern Art (MOMA), Oxford
1982 Modern Indian Paintings, organized by the National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), New Delhi, at Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC, USA
1981 Inaugural Exhibition, Roopankar, Bhopal
1979 Focus, Four Painters Directions, Chemould Gallery, Bombay
1977 Pictorial Space, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
1965 Ten Contemporary Indian Painters, MIT and New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, USA
1965 Art Now in India, London, Newcastle and Ghent
1960, 62 London Group Show
1960 Art Alive, Northampton Museum

 

PARTICIPATIONS
2009 Armory Show, New York presented by Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
2008-09 Modern India, organized by the Institut Valencia d'Art Modern (IVAM) and Casa Asia, in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture of Valencia, Spain
2008-09 Expanding Horizons Contemporary Indian Art, Roadshow presented by Bodhi Art at Ravinder Natya Mandir, P.L.Despande Kala Academy Art Gallery, Mumbai, Sant Dyaneshwar Natya Sankul Art Gallery, Amravati, Platinum Jubilee Hall, Nagpur, Tapadia Natya Mandir Sports Hall, Aurangabad, Hirachand Nemchand Vachanalays, Solapur, Acharya Vidyanand Sanskrutik Bhavan, Kolhapur, PGSR Sabhagriha, SNDT, Pune, Sarvajanik Vachanalaya Hall, Nasik
2008 Moderns, Royal Cultural Centre, Amman, Jordan organized by Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi in collaboration with the Embassy of India, Amman, Jordan
1982 Fifth Triennial, India
1975 Third Triennial, India
1974 Festival Internationale de la Peinture, Cagnes-Sur-Mer, France
1974 Deuxieme Biennale Internationale de Menton
1968 First Triennial, India
1965 National Exhibition, New Delhi

 

HONORS AND AWARD
2004 Gold Medal awarded by the President on the occasion of the Golden Jubilee celebration of Lalit Kala Akademi, Delhi
2004 Manpatra, awarded by the Government of Maharashtra, Mumbai
2007 Padma Bhushan
1988 Kalidas Sanman Award, Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal
1970 Wrote and directed Koodal, a sixteen-minute experimental film for the Film Division of the Government of India, which won him the Film Fare Critics Award
1968-69 Rockefeller IIIrd Fund Fellowship, New York

 

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Born in Kapadvanj, a town in Gujarat, in 1925, Tyeb Mehta believed that in art, you have to go on for a long time before you can say that you have done something. Initially a film editor, his interest in painting led him to the Sir J.J. School of Art in Bombay, where he graduated in 1952. Between 1959 and 1964 he lived and worked in London. He also visited the USA on a Rockefeller Fund scholarship in 1968.

 

Like most other artists of the Indian Progressive Artists Movement, Mehta could trace his influence back to the European masters. His inspiration came from the terrible distortion used by the artist Francis Bacon, which can be seen even in the treatment of the face and body in his most recent works before he died in 2009. In his early works, Mehta said the following: When you are young, you try to understand the world. As you grow older, you try to understand yourself. His work then becomes the essence of these efforts.

 

While also known to have adopted the pictorial language of European art during the 1950s and 1960s, Mehta turned to Indian themes and issues during the 1970s and 1980s. This return to Indianness had been a characteristic of most of his contemporaries. S.H. Raza returned again and again to the Tantric Bindu and Akbar Padamsee returned home to study Sanskrit and Hindu philosophy, a study that inspired his monochromatic meta-landscapes. From painting images of rickshaw drivers and the tethered bull, Mehta had reduced his search for the eternal to the complex and layered images and concepts of Hindu mythology. During the 1990s, his imagination was captured by the myth of the Devi (Goddess) - such as Durga, Kali, Mahishasura Mardini, the slayer of the demon Mahishasura (the different incarnations of the goddess).

 

Mehta's use of flat surfaces of color to evoke space and the diagonal division of space were two devices that existed in the Indian tradition of miniature and were his contributions to Bacon's macabre style. On his growth as an artist, Mehta said An artist comes to terms with certain images. He arrives at certain conventions through a process of reduction.

 

He used the ancient Indian technique of creating multiple images to convey movement. This is evident in the many arms of the Nataraja (the dancing god), which represent the movement of the hands in the dance form Bharatanatyam. Tyeb combined this with the radical vision he acquired in his days as a member of the Bombay Progressive Artists Group, using this ancient Indian treatment of movement to reflect the continuing fall in the price of a man's labor in the face of rising prices for other goods. He used ancient imagery in a modern sense, blending the demon Mahishasura with the butcher's buffalo. Critics often praise her technical excellence which also makes clear those complex meanings.

 

Mehta, who trained as a film editor and made an experimental film, Koodal (1970), applied that medium's freeze-frame technique to arrest the anarchy of movement on his canvases. He used violence not as a disturbance but as a resolution. Consequently, his paintings, even if turbulent, end up leaving a calming influence. For me, Kali is an extremely benevolent goddess, Mehta said. She was not destructive, she killed asuras (demons).

 

His work is characterized by matte surfaces, diagonal lines that break up his canvases, and images of anguish, a result of his concern with formalist means of expression.

 

Apart from several solo exhibitions, Mehta participated in international exhibitions such as Ten Contemporary Indian Painters at Trenton, USA, in 1965, Deuxieme Biennial Internationale de Menton, 1974, Festival Internationale de la Peinture, Cagnes-Sur-Mer, France, 1974, Modern Indian Paintings at the Hirschhorn Museum, Washington, 1982, and Seven Indian Painters at the Gallerie Le Monde de U art, Paris, 1994. He was awarded the Kalidas Samman by the Government of Madhya Pradesh in 1988.

 

Tyeb Mehta passed away on 2 July 2009.

 

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