After a span of two years Devajyoti Ray, is putting up another solo show in the capital.
In 2003, when Devajyoti Ray had introduced his new style of Pseudorealism, it had created a kind of sensation in the art world. Veterans like Praful Dhanukar and Balraj Panesar welcomed the new artist with open arms. Dhanukar went on to describe him as another Hussain in the making. Balraj Panesar too described as “the most original artist of the new generation”
Critic Sumeet Mukherjee described him as “the most promising”. Originality is what attracted the attention of most art critics in India. Henri McLeod, later took Ray’s works to wider audience in Europe and since then Ray never had to look back.
The past few years had been very eventful for Ray as his paintings reached many countries, including some important museums like the Wash Academy, USA and the Fine Arts Museum, Cuba.
Ray is now coming with another traveling show the first leg of which will be presented at New Delhi’s Sridharani Gallery. The exhibition is then to move to Mumbai and then to Dubai.
The New Delhi show will feature 20 of Ray’s Pseudorealist renderings, covering various aspects of the Indian life, both imaginary and real. The show will be on from 5th to 15th October, 2009.
