Making the Modern brings 60 artists to Triveni Kala Sangam

Raja Ravi Varma, Amrita Sher-Gil, M. F. Husain, Nasreen Mohamedi and Bhanu Athaiya are among the artists brought together at Triveni Kala Sangam for *Making the Modern: Sixty Indian Master Artists*.

Presented by the Raza Foundation with Progressive Art Gallery, the show runs until October 26 and is curated by art historian Yashodhara Dalmia. It gathers about 60 artists from pre-Independence India through the post-Independence decades, placing their works in conversation rather than arranging them in a straight chronology.

The exhibition traces early artistic thought through figures including Abanindranath Tagore, Rabindranath Tagore, Nandalal Bose and Jamini Roy, before turning to the Progressive Artists’ Group: Husain, F. N. Souza, S. H. Raza, K. H. Ara, S. K. Bakre and H. A. Gade.

It also includes work by V. S. Gaitonde, Ram Kumar, Akbar Padamsee, Arpita Singh, Manjit Bawa and Zarina Hashmi, alongside sculptors such as Ram Kinkar Baij, Himmat Shah, Meera Mukherjee, Mrinalini Mukherjee and S. Nandgopal. Athaiya’s presence extends the show into cinema, costume and popular visual culture.

Dalmia said the exhibition “celebrates its plurality.”