Join a representative from Plymouth Museum and Art Gallery who will discuss the exhibition, which features works by Indian artists from the 1960s, 70s, and 80s including Prabhakar Barwe, Prafulla Mohanti, Sohan Qadri, G.R. Santosh and Acharya Vyakul, as well as contemporary artists such as Claudia Wieser.
The drawings are in the tradition of the tantric art of the 1700s and 1800s, which used not only drawings but also rituals, sculptures, maps and chants to create a sense of transcendence.
Presenting a speculative history of Tantric drawings This international exhibition presents a new understanding of how Indian art has influenced Western cultural traditions such as abstract art. Thinking Tantra begins with anonymous Tantric drawings dating from the second half of the 19th century, then continues with works by Indian artists who directly associated themselves with Tantra in the 1960s, 70s and 80s, concluding with work by international contemporary artists, who know Tantric drawings and make a connection to their own ways of working including: Tom Chamberlain, Shezad Dawood...
