Vivan sundaram biography of albert davis

Sundaram with Angel-wing from his series Gagawaka , a set of 27 sculptural garments made from recycled materials and medical supplies. Photo: Dilip Thakkar. Courtesy Chemould Prescott Road. Sundaram made an outstanding suite of paintings in , including South Africa and From Persian Miniatures to Stan Brakhage , which reveal his political acuity and experimental depth as he sensed revolutionary ferment in the aesthetic language of contemporary pop, Surrealist grammar and narrative figuration—steeped in the charged atmosphere of student protests, the anti-Apartheid movement in Britain, opposition to the Vietnam War, and Marxist thought.

Some of these formative works were displayed in the survey show Vivan Sundaram: Disjunctures at Haus der Kunst, Munich, curated by Deepak Ananth and conceived by the late Okwui Enwezor. The rediscovered paintings are the highlight of the show. It is everything I have always hoped to see in the artistic practice of serious artists.

Vivan Sundaram's work is included in the exhibition Garmenting: Costume and Contemporary Art at Museum of Arts and Design, the first global survey.

You must come see the exhibition. In this sequence of tableaux, a grouping of protagonists donned in black assemble, huddle, lean into one another as if to mark into skin the glowing embers of mourning and folded contours of traumatic memory. Photo: Maximilian Geuter. Courtesy of Chemould Prescott Road. While his close friends and comrades were party members, policy makers and academics, Sundaram chose to remain out of party politics, and yet he was vociferous on issues that impinged on secular values, artistic expression and the communitarian spirit of public life.

For Sundaram, archiving traces of artistic kinship naturally extended to his own family as he assembled their lineage through photomontages, mnemonic souvenirs and publishing. His mother, Indira, was the younger sister of the legendary artist Amrita Sher-Gil, whose life bridged South Asian and European cultural spheres. His sister Navina Sundaram moved to Germany in , where she worked as a prominent television journalist, political editor and film-maker.