The Fifties Show revisits a momentous decade of newly-independent India that had just put its colonised past behind it to embrace a triumphant modernism.
NEW DELHI, 1 st February, 2020 - DAG’s new space at The Claridges, New Delhi, will see the opening of its latest exhibition, titled The Fifties Show. This exhibition encapsulates key highlights in Indian art over a decade of the 1950s, spotlighting how a newly-independent nation put its colonised past behind and embraced triumphant modernism.
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Indian art in the twentieth century witnessed two important decades: The first one was the 1910s when the Bengal School saw the establishment of the "revivalist practice" that came
to signify Indian modern art in general. Another was the 1950s, when Indian artists of independent India embraced modernish that was free of their colonial history.
In 1950, the first copy of the Constitution of India, handcrafted and illustrated by Nandalal Bose and other Santiniketan artists, was dedicated to the republic, the Progressives were at the peak of their oeuvre, and younger artists were challenging their place with bold formats of art-making.
The 1950s was a period of hope and celebration, which saw the creation of works emblematic not just of the decade but of the context and subtexts of modernism itself. A period when the best and brightest in the Indian art world—such as Nandlal Bose, M F Husain, S H Raza, F N Souza, G R Santosh, K K Hebbar, Adi Davierwalla, Shanti Dave, Dhanraj Bhagat, etc—created some of their most significant masterpieces.
The exhibition will be on view from 1 February 2020 – 26 th March 2020
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