Nikhil Chopra – Galleria Continua
Nikhil Chopra, one of the leading artists on the international art scene today is showing at Galleria Continua “Drawing a Line through Landscape”, a work the artist did in 2017, in occasion of his participation at documenta 14 in Kassel, and which is considered his most ambitious project yet.
Nikhil Chopra’s artistic practice ranges between live art, drawing, photography, sculpture and installations. His performances, in large part improvised, dwell on issues such as identity, the role of autobiography, the pose and self-portraiture, reflects on the process of transformation and the part played by the duration of performance. Chopra combines everyday life, memory and collective history; daily acts such as eating, resting, washing and dressing, but also drawing and making clothes, become the process of making an artwork, becoming an essential part of the show.
The exhibition will also be the occasion to present Inside Out to the public for the first time. The work features a series of photographs documenting the site-specific performance made by Nikhil Chopra in 2012 for his first solo show in the gallery. The project lasted ninety-hours during which the artist disguised himself as various people to embody history and memory.
Nikhil Chopra was born in Calcutta in 1974, and lives in Goa. Recent shows include the solo exhibition Yog Raj Chitrakar: Memory Drawing IX, at the New Museum of New York in 2009, and the group shows Production Site: The Artist’s Studio Inside-out at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago (2010); Generation in Transition: New Art from India at the Zacheta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw (2011).
M. Chopra work will be showed until April, 7th 2019.
