T. Venkanna in conversation with Curator Habda Rashid, during the opening week of the artist's first institutional solo exhibition.
T. Venkanna persistently questions sexual imagination and its entanglements with societal norms, freedom and repression. For his exhibition at Studio Voltaire, Venkanna is creating an expansive new series of paintings that mark a significant evolution in both scale and form for the artist, with individual paintings reaching across multiple panels.
The artist’s compositions draw together histories of image-making across Western and South Asian visual traditions. Renaissance imagery, such as Correggio’s Leda and the Swan or Michelangelo’s David, features alongside references to the gilded manuscripts of the Mughal Empire, Indian miniature paintings and the compositions of temple reliefs.
With a shared interest in the art histories that converge in Venkanna’s new body of work, the artist and Rashid will discuss the development of the exhibition and the artist’s broader practice.
Standard ticket £5, concessions available.
