A woolly cocoon encrusted in crystals and stones adorns a wall. A preternatural pillar guards another. In between, stand bronze men with lunar bodies and no heads, still living and breathing. No, this isn’t a scene from a sci-fi movie, though if the selection on display is anything to go by, it’s every bit as theatrical. Welcome to Currents, a salon series and the maiden Hyderabad outpost of New York-born, New Delhi-based art gallery Nature Morte, unveiled in collaboration with Hetero Pharma Group on August 9th. The exhibition, which will remain on view until August 18th, sweeps across the gamut of fashion, design, music and culture, leaving you to wonder where—or whether—one discipline ends and another begins.
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With artworks and collectible design pieces by contemporary names such as Bharti Kher, Jitish Kallat, Subodh Gupta, Ashiesh Shah and Bloni, along with works by modern masters including SH Raza and MF Hussain, this new art show in Hyderabad is an illusory dreamscape that levitates above worldly trappings, illuminating the changing contours of visual culture in South Asia today. “It is important that contemporary art starts to move out of Delhi and Mumbai, engaging with the vast audiences found in India’s secondary and tertiary cities,” says Peter Nagy, co-director at Nature Morte. The gallery’s Hyderabad pop-up is the latest in a series of art debuts in the City of Pearls, following events like the India Art Festival, which expanded to Hyderabad in June after a fourteen-year stronghold in Mumbai, Delhi and Bengaluru.
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Some might say the exhibition begins outside. After all, the compound it inhabits—a forthcoming retail section on the ground floor of the Hetero offices in the RMZ Nexity corporate park—is noted for its public art programme, featuring monumental works by artists like Manish Nai and Manisha Parekh. These pieces set the stage for the artworks inside, which compose paintings, installations and sculptures, yes, but also fashion- and design-inspired curiosities that masquerade as art. Think a fully embroidered black bead jacket with moulded metal shoulder pads designed by Bloni for Karan Johar, or a tactile Lorenzo Vitturi wall installation. They are at once easy and experimental, complementary yet contrasting, independent while contributing to a cohesive whole.
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