A Pair of Mongoose
A Pair of Owls 
Artist 1
Artist 2 
Bageswar Deo
Bana Mask
Dog Father, Fox Mother, Their Daughter 
Mallu Deo
Mangrohi
Mother, Daughter, Grandma
Nagpanchami 
Old Man, Old Woman & Monkey 
Snake & Mongoose
The Story of Sun & Moon 
The Worship of Bada Deo 
Thinking Man 
Dog father, fox mother, their daughter & other stories is the first solo exhibition by Sukhnandi Vyam, a 26-year old Pardhan Gond artist from Madhya Pradesh.
Sukhnandi Vyam is unique in continuing to practice Pardhan wood sculpture at a time when many of his illustrious family have moved towards canvas. Belonging to a tradition of contemporary Pardhan Gond art inaugurated by the pioneering Jangarh Singh Shyam, Vyam moved from his village in Sanopri to Bhopal at the age of 8 and apprenticed with his uncle Subhash Vyam, the celebrated painter and sculptor. Sukhnandi has worked in many media—clay, canvas, metal and wood—but it is his wooden sculptures that have won him most acclaim. In 2002, he won the Madhya Pradesh State Government award for his sculpture depicting the Mangrohi wedding ritual and his work is featured extensively in Udayan Vajpeyi's book on Pardhan Gond art, Jangarh Kalam.
Vyam's work gives form to Madhya Pradesh's bana tradition; transforming oral story telling to formal sculpture, the work loses none of the power to stimulate the imagination that the spoken word contains.
At a moment when we need urgently to be reminded of the critical connection between man and the earth, Vyam's magical realism reminds us that these connections are not pastoral fantasies of simplicity and a "return to nature" but that man's relationship to the land and its gods has long been powerful, complex and strange. Of equal importance is the assertion the work, and its lineage, represents – that the creative voice, and its expression, is held within the self. His stories are crafted using simple tools wielded by a powerful imagination.
"While paintings of the contemporary Gond art movement are now internationally celebrated, its three-dimensional expressions remain surprisingly neglected. Thus this solo exhibit – the first to focus on a Gond sculptor – is long overdue. Sukhnandi's engaging, bold and earthy sculptures will astonish and captivate many Indian art devotees." —John H. Bowles, art critic and author of Painted Songs & Stories: The Hybrid Flowerings of Contemporary Pardhan Gond Art
Dog father, fox mother, their daughter & other stories is commissioned from Sukhnandi Vyam by W+K Exp in collaboration with Navayana Publishing.
The exhibition will be open from 24th March 2010 to 27th April 2010.
For more information, write to us at exp@wk.com.