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Sohan Qadri
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Combining spirituality and art, Sohan Qadri invokes a vision of meditative tranquillity through vibrant motifs in his paintings. Often eschewing conventional paint mediums, Qadri is known to create ink and dye works on paper that evoke the rich colours of his birthplace, India. The Copenhagen-based artist was introduced to yogic practices at the young age of seven. His early years spent in India, where he met and was influenced by two wandering...
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Combining spirituality and art, Sohan Qadri invokes a vision of meditative tranquillity through vibrant motifs in his paintings. Often eschewing conventional paint mediums, Qadri is known to create ink and dye works on paper that evoke the rich colours of his birthplace, India. The Copenhagen-based artist was introduced to yogic practices at the young age of seven. His early years spent in India, where he met and was influenced by two wandering mystics, informed his aesthetics and later work. Qadri’s paintings are hybrid marriage of Tantric imagery and late modernist minimalism, earning him the title of the “Tantric yogi artist” from Francis Newton Souza, one of India’s leading Modernists.
Although he began his career in the 1950s painting in oil on canvas, he worked on paper almost exclusively from the 1980s. In his process, he covered the surface of the paper with structural effects by soaking it in liquid and carving it in several stages while applying inks and dyes. The striated two-dimensional paper was ultimately transformed into a three-dimensional medium. The repetition of careful incisions on the paper was an integral part of his meditation.
Qadri received his MFA from the Government College of Art in Simla. He began travelling around the world in 1965, to Paris, Zurich, East Africa and North America. Qadri has had over a hundred solo and group exhibitions in India and around the world, including the United States, Canada, Switzerland, Denmark, Germany, Sweden, Austria and Poland. His works have been included in numerous collections, including those of the Peabody Essex Museum, Massachusetts; the Rubin Museum of Art, New York; the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California; the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto; as well as the private collections of Cirque du Soleil, Heinrich Böll and Dr. Robert Thurman.
The artist passed away in Toronto in 2011.
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Born
November 2, 1932
Punjab
Died
March 2, 2011
Toronto
Education
1955-60 Master of Fine Arts, Government College of Art, Simla
Exhibitions
Selected Posthumous Exhibitions
2017 'Tantra', Art Konsult, New...
Selected Posthumous Exhibitions
2017 'Tantra', Art Konsult, New Delhi
2015 ‘Being There’, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York
2015 Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Hong Kong
2014 Summer Group Show, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Hong Kong, New York
2014 Summer Group Show, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York
2013 ‘Inside Out’, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Hong Kong, New York
2013 'Beyond Canvas: Paintings on Paper and Metal', with Nathan Slate Joseph at Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York
2013 'Edge of Reason- and beyond, into pure creativity', presented by Indian Art Circle at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
2012 'Synergy 2012', 12th Anniversary Show, Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai
2012 ‘Confluence: Sohan Qadri - Zhang Yu’, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2010 Sohan Qadri, ‘Drishti: A New Vision’, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York
2009 ‘Prakriti: Contemporary Indian Art’, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Beverley Hills
2009 Sohan Qadri, ‘Seer: The Art of Sohan’, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Hong Kong
2006 Sohan Qadri: An Exhibition of Work in Gallery II, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York
2005 Sohan Qadri, ‘The Dot and the Dots’, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York
2005 ‘Next Level’, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York
2004 Sohan Qadri, ‘Dissolving Contours’, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York
2004 Sohan Qadri, ‘Invocation’, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York
Selected Group Exhibitions
2012 ‘Spectrum: East/West/Beyond’, Sundaram Tagore Gallery
2011 ‘Continuum’, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Hong Kong
2011 ‘Constellation’, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Hong Kong
2011 ‘Facing East: Contemporary Asian Art’, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York
2010 ‘Rasa: Contemporary Asian Art’, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York
2010 ‘The Reason for Hope: Group Show’, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York
2009 Summer Group Show, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Beverley Hills
2009 ‘Here & Now: Group Show’, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Hong Kong
2008 ‘In Your Mind’s Eye: An Asian Group Show’, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Hong Kong
2008 ‘Dimensions of Color: An Asian Group Show’, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York
2008 Group Show, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Beverley Hills
Joint Exhibitions
2012 'Confluence' with Zhang Yu at Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Hong Kong
Honours and Awards
1982 I.A.P.A.A. Award, Toronto
1968 Award in Painting, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
1982 I.A.P.A.A. Award, Toronto
1968 Award in Painting, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
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14 September 2024
Untitled
Ink, dye and incisions on paper
54.5 x 38.5 in
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Lot 41
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Untitled
Ink, dye and incisions on paper
22 x 30.75 in
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Abyss
Ink, dye and incisions on paper pasted on canvas
55 x 39.5 in
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Untitled
Ink, dye and incisions on paper pasted on canvas
39.5 x 55 in
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Rs 23,90,400
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