SRISHTI ART returns to India Art Fair 2026 with a presentation that brings together early works by modern master Dashrath Patel, complemented by contemporary artists whose practices engage with material inquiry, memory, and lived experience across generations.
Anchoring the booth is a focused showcase of Dashrath Patel (1927 2010), a pivotal figure in post-Independence Indian art and design. Created during the 1950s, these paintings reveal a lyrical modernist sensibility, where landscape, movement, and atmosphere dissolve into painterly abstraction. Patel’s contribution as a founding member of the National Institute of Design and his multidisciplinary legacy place these works within an important moment in India’s cultural history.
Alongside these works, SRISHTI ART presents contemporary practices by Alamelu Annamalai, Alpana Vij, Arpan Sadhukhan, Mahalakshmi Kannappan, Poojan Gupta, and Unnikrishnan C. Each artist engages with distinct concerns, ranging from inherited memory and language, material fragility, and consumer culture to labour, identity, and the politics of the everyday-through diverse media including printmaking, sculpture, installation, found materials, and mixed media.
Together, the presentation brings a modern master and contemporary practices into a single, compelling dialogue.