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Email PageBook Launch and Reception
May 6, 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Vivan Sundaram
SEPIA International | The Alkazi Collection
148 W 24th StVivan Sundaram will be releasing a monograph on his grandfather’s photographs entitled Umrao Singh Sher-Gil: His Misery and His Manuscript, featuring 142 images from the Sher-Gil archive.
His grandfather Umrao Singh Sher-Gil (1870-1954) was a scholar and photographer who chronicled his family and their personal history in India, Hungary, and France over a sixty-year period.
One of India’s most renowned contemporary artists, Vivan Sundaram is also the nephew of Amrita Sher-Gil, the first modernist painter in India. Drawing from his family's archive, Sundaram creates art works which utilize photographs, paintings, family history, and autobiography to create multi-faceted contemporary fictions. One body of work entitled Re-take of Amrita, which has been shown internationally, was exhibited at SEPIA in Spring 2006 with an accompanying selection of vintage photographic prints by Umrao Singh Sher-Gil and a video installation. An exhibition catalog was published by SEPIA International, with essays by Dr. Wu Hung and Vivan Sundaram. The Sher-Gil Archive, an installation of photographs and etched lightboxes, is on view in Okwui Enwezor's Archive Fever at The International Center of Photography, New York, through May 4th.
Vivan Sundaram will also be presenting a new publication on his latest series entitled Trash. The Trash series will be shown at SEPIA International in September 2008.
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