Suraj Ghai

Drawings become a powerful tool of Satire and biting wit in Ghai’s hands. During the Eighties and Nineties, Ghai produced some of the most powerful drawings on the deteriorating social and political conditions in the country. A corpus of more than a thousand drawings in black and white add a powerful dimension to Ghai, one of the most versatile artists of our times. Cursing its Creator, Old Man’s Stick, Man as Toilet, The Bureaucrat…. Some of the drawings seem to take but a few moments, and each one reveals to us what we have become, or chosen to be. A few selected drawings are showcased below.

Obeisance (1983)

Mannequins (1983)

Tantric’s Fancy (1984)

Autumn (1984)

Untitled (1984)

Untitled (1984)

Flowers (1984)

Snooping into Each Other (1984)

Swan-Snake (1984)

Woman as Cow (1984)

Old Man’s Stick (1984)

Innocent Savage (1986)

Orgy at His Recurring Crucification (1992)

Jaws (1992)

Joyous Man Woman’s Wolf (2002)

Birds (2002)

Introspection, an Etching (2002)

More Wretched than the Wretched (2002)