Delhi Art Gallery brings the Baroda-based veteran artist Jyoti Bhatt to Delhi showcasing his Paintings, Prints and Photographs in an exhibition titled  Parallels that Meet to present his artistic working life spanning a period of slightly over five decades. Accompanied by a publication that extensively documents the entire oeuvre of Jyoti Bhatt in a book comprising of 250 pages and almost 200 visuals, the primary intention is to comprehend Bhatt’s manifold engagements with visual reality and its representation.

Shukla Sawant, one of the writers contributing to the publication says, “Jyoti Bhatt has amassed a body of work that takes the physical form of photographs, paintings, prints and drawings. His fascination for the ‘new’ has resulted in his being at the forefront of the technical vanguard of modernism in India.

Art Historian and co-writer Amrita Gupta Singh adds, “Many of his paintings and prints serve as works- in-progress where he revisits old canvases and metal plates, using collage and cutouts in an improvisatory way setting them in a new context. Formally, his repertoire of images seems to spill across mediums, where his graphic prints resemble his photographs or are hand-coloured in a manner akin to paintings. Even in his photographs, he employs the technique of collage, where he incorporates drawings, coloured by hand after being chemically maneuvered.

Art critic and editor of the book, Roobina Karode writes, “All established hierarchies and false divides between art and craft, fine and popular, urban and rural, decorative and symbolic collide when Bhatt unfolds the inner workings of his indulgent mind.