INFINITE LIGHT

#PREFACE Infnite Light is a celebration of the art of Paresh Maity, a large-scale exhibition across various genres and media in which he has been active for more than three decades. The viewer who visits the exhibition, will be transported into a space of artistic accomplishment that generates instant wonderment through its scale and imagery, yet also demands sustained attention. Maity’s art embodies a deep fascination with light as a shaping power, with colour as a ground of being, and with the human being as witness and participant in epic-scale cosmic dramas.

If his main trajectory has been that of a painter, Maity has also invested his energies in the pursuit of sculpture, has produced a continuing body of drawings and has been quietly devoted to the exploration of ceramic art; as well, his practice has subsumed elements of theatre and soundscape in the making of his ambitious installations. In each of these chosen forms, Maity translates into aesthetic propositions his memories of landscape, riverscape and architecture, the sensations he has absorbed during his journeys across India and the world, and his ceaseless excitement in the face of the world’s changing moods and seasons.

The exhibition will travel to, and unfold itself in, four metropolitan centres over a period of four months: Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, and Bengaluru, in each of which cities the artist has shown over the years, and where he has nurtured close and long-term connections with his gallerists and audiences.

#Ranjit Hoskote Curatorial Advisor