An exhibition by Alexander Gorlizki / Pink City Studio
Curated by Museum of Art & Photography | 5 May - 21 July 2024
Ground Floor Gallery | Sunday | 11am
Ever wondered why the faces in old photographs often appear so serious? Limitations of early photography, the weight of the past, or perhaps the secrets held by those once posed? The exhibition What The Camera Didn’t See, blurs the boundaries between photography and painting, creating fantastical responses to vintage photographs from the collection of Museum of Art & Photography. Alexander Gorlizki creates elaborate compositions out of the historic photographs, giving them dream-like and whimsical narratives, reanimating and transforming images of royalty, common people, architecture, nature, and more. The artists from Pink City Studio Jaipur, led by master miniature artist Riyaz Uddin, reproduce these new forms, colours and patterns in immaculate detail, using centuries-old techniques of miniature painting – challenging the ideas surrounding painting and photography, encouraging viewers to embrace new perspectives of the past informed more by imagination than interpretation.
Alexander Gorlizki / Pink City Studio
Alexander Gorlizki is a New York-based artist celebrated for his innovative approach to traditional Indian miniature painting. In 1996, in collaboration with master miniature painter Riyaz Uddin, Gorlizki established an Indian miniatures atelier in Jaipur, Rajasthan. Since its founding, Pink City Studio has become a hub for preserving while expanding the 700-year-old miniature painting tradition.
With a contemporary approach to an ancient technique, Gorlizki and Pink City Studio’s whimsical compositions blend unusual subjects, intricate patterns, and surreal narratives to create absurdist vignettes that employ unparalleled craftsmanship and intricate techniques to – ironically – blur the lines of space and time. In merging historical, cultural, and geographical influences, Gorlizki and Pink City Studio’s unique creations push the boundaries of their form even while adhering to its meticulous techniques and traditional materials.
By redefining a time-honored practice for a global audience, Gorlizki and Pink City Studio’s works, in both form and effect, reflect a unique dialogue between the past and the present, between history and modernity.
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