Decoding Canvases: Artist Aditya Pande’s mixed media works showcase present-day Delhi and borrow from archaeology and mythology | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

Decoding Canvases: Artist Aditya Pande’s mixed media works showcase present-day Delhi and borrow from archaeology and mythology | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

Written by Pallavi Chattopadhyay |Updated: April 3, 2019 11:21:21 am

Decoding Canvases: Artist Aditya Pande’s mixed media works showcase present-day Delhi and borrow from archaeology and mythology

These mixed media works on display at Nature Morte are captured in pitch dark. For them, Pande photographed the ring roads in Delhi with long camera exposures at night, using the motion of taxis, traffic and lights as his guiding force.

Lala Lajpat Rai (Ring Road Drawing)

A galaxy filled with several bright white and yellow lines that are interrupted at many intervals — much like how cars plying on Delhi’s roads during peak hours have to press the breaks — form the dominant narrative in artist Aditya Pande’s “Ring Road Drawing” series.