Page 18 - Contemporary Indian Art

Lot No. 8

Rana Begum
b. 1977

NO. 679 - FOLD
27.3 x 18 x 7 in (69 x 46 x 18 cm)
Lacquer coated on steel
2016
Signed & Dated: Verso

` 15,00,000 – 20,00,000 | $ 18,519 - 24,691

Exhibited: Lines (By) Lines: An Exploration
of Linearity in South Asian Art From the 20th
Century to the Present, New Delhi: Dhoomimal
Gallery, 30 March - 15 May 2022

Published: Lines (By) Lines: An Exploration
of Linearity in South Asian Art From the 20th
Century to the Present, New Delhi:
Dhoomimal Gallery, 2023

Illustrated are two views of the presented lot.

At once a visual and a spatial experience, Rana
Begum’s practice of minimum abstraction erases
the division between the painting, architecture,
and sculpture. Stimulated by the early traditional
Islamic repetitive geometric patterns as an
influence of urban landscape, the artist creates an
enigmatic interplay of light, colour and shapes on
surfaces. The changing sensation created by the
absorption and reflection of light as the viewers
move around the work leads them parallelly to a
spiritual and temporal experience.

The presented lot on exhibit at Dhoomimal
Gallery, New Delhi

Cover of the publication with the work illustrated