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Year-ends were never so artistic. Here are some of the best installations in Delhi; all yours through Christmas

Year-ends were never so artistic. Here are some of the best installations in Delhi; all yours through Christmas

LOL
On till: January 10
Where: Palette Art Gallery
Timings: 11 am to 7 pm
Through his solo show of paintings and sculptures, LOL, Manil Gupta explores various media. He attempts to portray a state of 'disillusioning amusement at the revelations of life'. He demonstrates very lucidly the various facets of every worldly thing. This aspect can be very well traced out through this set of works, which have been stripped of colour and the artist's emphasis being on other attribute such as form, texture and depth, which further leads to an optical play. The acronym 'LOL', which is a part of the popular lingo, has a different connotation for the artist. He emphatically translates it as the 'laboratory of life'. Hence, this fresh body of works revolves around this ideology.

Funny, ain't it? Works from LOL

Black, White and Other Technicolor Dreams
On till: January 5
Where: Gallery Seven Art Limited, M - 44, Greater Kailash Part - 2
Timings: 11 am to 7 pm
Delhi-based artist Pushkar Thakur brings to the forefront an amalgamation of broken chains of thoughts and ideas, concepts and drawings, realities unreal and constructed. His exhibited works are Logistics, Heuristics, Technology and Craft among others. Commonly used idioms that dot our everyday language, themes that conceptualise our today and machines both simple and complex that occupy our reality become a part of Black, White and Technicolor Dreams paintings and installations.u00a0

Indigo
On till: December 28
Where: Open Palm Court Gallery, India Habitat Centre, Lodhi road
Timings: 11 am to 7 pm

Torrid past: Ballad of Riots from Indigo

There was a time when India was the prime manufacturer of indigo, but today, the deep blue color of indigo is synthetically created in a lab and is associated, in the West, with blue jeans more than its torrid colonial past. But indigo holds a sustained presence in the post-colonial identity of India. Employing fair trade embroidery artisans from women's collectives in India and executing their works in indigo blue, Indian artist Shelly Jyoti and Laura Kina delve upon India's torrid history and transnational economic interchanges in the exhibition titled Indigo.