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In 1969, Akbar Padamsee, one of the pioneers of Modern Indian painting, made a visionary 16mm film called Events in a Cloud Chamber. This was one of the only Indian experimental films ever made. The print is now lost and no copies exist. Over 40 years later, filmmaker Ashim Ahluwalia worked with Padamsee, now 89 years old, to remake the film.
2016 Directed by Ashim Ahluwalia. In 1969, Akbar Padamsee, one of the pioneers of Modern Indian painting, made a visionary 16mm film called Events in a Cloud Chamber. This was one of the only Indian experimental films ever made. The print is now lost and no copies exist.
- Ashim Ahluwalia
- Future East Film
Aug 24, 2021 · Estimate: $600,000-800,000. Offered in South Asian Modern + Contemporary Art on 22 September 2021 at Christie’s in New York. Padamsee was the subject of several solo exhibitions in India, culminating in retrospectives in Mumbai and New Delhi.
Akbar Padamsee was born in Mumbai in 1928. His ancestors hailed from Vāghnagar, a village in the Bhavnagar district of the erstwhile Kathiawar, now part of Gujarat state. Padamsee was still a student at the Sir J.J. School of Art in Mumbai at the time when the Progressive Artists’ Group (PAG) announced itself on the Indian art scene in 1947.
Jan 10, 2020 · January 10, 2020 9:00 am. Akbar Padamsee, Cityscape, 1962. Akbar Padamsee, whose six-decade output of paintings, prints, photographs, sculpture, and film made an inestimable contribution to the development of modernism in postcolonial India, died this week at the age of ninety-one.
Indian artist, Akbar Padamsee (1928 – 2020) was a true pioneer of Modern Art and a first-generation postcolonial artist and was a part of the Progressive Artists’ Group. Padamsee’s first solo show in India was held at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai in 1954. His early portraits in varied mediums demonstrate a quasi-spiritual style of working. […]
Akbar Padamsee (b. 1928) was one of the early pioneer painters of the 1940’s to forge a new modernist style in India art. He passed out of the Sir J.J. School of Art, Bombay.
