Modernist Art From India: Approaching Abstraction September 26, 2012

'Approaching Abstraction' is the second exhibition of a three-part series, titled 'Modernist Art from India,' that examines art from post-independence and post-Partition India. Building on the explorations between abstraction and figuration begun in 'The Body Unbound,' the exhibition distinguishes abstraction in modernist Indian art from abstraction in Euro-American modernism and shows the independent trajectory of abstraction in post-Independence India. In addition to paintings, this exhibition will present experimental films created by leading painters M.F. Husain, Tyeb Mehta and Akbar Padamsee in the late 1960s, showing them for the first time in a museum context and in relation to the artists' paintings.