Work from the series ‘Phantomata’ Work from the series ‘Phantomata’One might say that it’s odd for an exhibition catalogue to come out five years after the exhibition took place, and in most cases, one would be right. Not so with Aesthetic Bind, the book which released last month, documents the year-long project comprising five distinct group exhibitions curated by writer and art historian Geeta Kapur. Conceptualised to celebrate 50 years of the Mumbai gallery Chemould Prescott Road, which was founded by the late Khorshed and Kekoo Gandhy in 1963, and reaffirm the gallery’s place in the history of post-Independence Indian art, the exhibition project ‘Aesthetic Bind’ ran from September 2013 to April 2014. That is exactly the sense that comes through with even a casual perusal of the book, Aesthetic Bind. The revelatory glimpses, however, go beyond the creative process into the actual grind and minute attention to detail required in executing as ambitious a project as ‘Aesthetic Bind’.

Source: Indian Express May 28, 2018 18:45 UTC