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GR IRANNA
(b. 1970)
Untitled (Blind Celebration)
Signed and dated 'Iranna 08' (lower right);
signed and dated 'Iranna 08' (on the reverse)
2008
Acrylic on canvas
65.75 x 104 in (167 x 264 cm)
$ 30,000 - 35,000
Rs 19,80,000 - 23,10,000
Diptych
EXHIBITED:
Birth of Blindness
, London: Aicon Gallery, 15 March - 23
April 2008; New York: Aicon Gallery, 6 November - 6
December 2008
Alone | Together
, New York: Aicon Gallery, 20 July - 31
August 2012
G R Iranna’s large canvas depicts a fish-eye perspective
of naval officers throwing up their hats in celebration.
The canvas is dominated by the bright blue sky, in
which the hats almost resemble birds in flight. The
artist is a master of form and figuration, and his deep
interest in the human body and its contextuality
find expression through the themes he chooses for
social commentary. The present lot was exhibited in
Iranna’s 2008 solo exhibition,
Birth of Blindness
at the
Aicon Gallery in London in 2008. In the catalogue
accompanying the exhibition, the art historian Donald
Kuspit describes Iranna’s work as “a masterpiece of
social commentary.”
Iranna’s works are included in collections world-wide
including, among others, at the The National Gallery
of Modern Art, New Delhi and Kolkata, the Singapore
Art Museum and the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art
in New Delhi.