Krishen Khanna: The Centenarian Master: Antarang Art Gallery

Antarang Art Gallery presents Krishen Khanna: The Centenarian Master. The exhibition pays homage to Krishen Khanna, one of the great modern masters of Indian art, whose practice continues to resist the boundaries of time.    

An integral member of the Progressive Artists’ Group, Krishen Khanna remains a humanistic painter whose work is shaped by decades of artistic engagement and lived experience. His vision is deeply attentive to the intimate gestures, daily lives, and complex inner worlds of the figures who inhabit his imagery.   

The artists’ recent works originate from drawings, a medium foundational to Khanna’s practice. Re-envisioned through enlargement and careful hand painting, they evolve into mixed media works that preserve the immediacy of the drawn line while extending its expressive and material possibilities.  

Familiar subjects recur: bandwallas, migrant workers, mythological beings, subjects through which Khanna reflects on society as both observer and participant. The iconic bandwallas also appear as sculptural iterations, from wall mounted reliefs to small scale works and human sized forms.     

The exhibition is a significant testament to a vision that remains contemporary through its enduring capacity to speak across generations, moments, and histories – a rare convergence of legacy and continuity.