Group 1890

Kishore Singh, Shruti Parthasarathy, Durga Pada Chowdhury, Saurabh Khandelwal

A new show at the DAG Modern brings together works of 10 of the 12 artists who were part of a Sixties collective known as the Group 1890, a front that was set up in response, and opposition, to the Bombay Progressive Artists' Group, writes Bhumika Popli..-- The exhibition, titled India's Indigenous Modernism, brings 10 of the 12 artists belonging to the storied "Group 1890" ... This set of artists, and their works, were last seen on a common platform as far back as 1963. The current exhibition rehashes and re-presents that significant event, which can be traced back to the golden decade - the Sixties - of Indian modernism. Group 1890 was formed, according to its manifesto, through a meeting which was held on 25-26 August, 1962 in Bhaavnagar, Gujarat. It derives its name simply from the venue of that meeting: 1890 was the number of the house that belonged to Jyoti and Jayant Pandya,...