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Following an overwhelming response at CCA, Bikaner House, Ratan Parimoo: Grammar of Seeing, A Retrospective of Becoming continues at Gallerie Splash, Gurgaon.

The exhibition offers an opportunity to encounter Parimoo’s artistic practice with renewed attention, through paintings, drawings, collages, and material explorations that trace his movement from early observation to a deeply considered language of abstraction.

For those who experienced the exhibition at Bikaner House, this continuation invites a second, slower viewing. For those who missed it, it offers a rare opportunity to engage with one of the most significant reassessments of Ratan Parimoo’s work.

On view until 31 July
Gallerie Splash, Gurgaon

The retrospective continues.
After an overwhelming response at Bikaner House, Ratan Parimoo: Grammar of Seeing, A Retrospective of Becoming, now travels to Gallerie Splash, Gurgaon.

The exhibition offers an opportunity to encounter Parimoo’s artistic practice with renewed attention, through paintings, drawings, collages, and material explorations that trace his movement from early observation to a deeply considered language of abstraction.

For those who experienced the exhibition at Bikaner House, this continuation invites a second, slower viewing. For those who missed it, it offers a rare opportunity to engage with one of the most significant reassessments of Ratan Parimoo’s work.

On view until 31 July
Gallerie Splash, Gurgaon

The response to Ratan Parimoo: Grammar of Seeing, A Retrospective of Becoming has been deeply moving.

Months of research, archival work, conversations, planning, and careful looking have gone into bringing this exhibition to life. Across the gallery, paintings, drawings, collages, letters, photographs, student records, and rare documents come together to trace an extraordinary artistic journey, from early observation to a powerful language of abstraction.

These installation views offer a glimpse into the world of Prof. Ratan Parimoo: the artist, the scholar, the teacher, and the modernist whose practice asks us to look again.

On view until 16 June
CCA, Bikaner House, New Delhi

We are deeply moved by the overwhelming response to Ratan Parimoo: Grammar of Seeing, A Retrospective of Becoming.

This exhibition has been months in the making. It has taken shape through research, archival work, conversations, careful looking, and the collective effort of an entire team committed to presenting Prof. Ratan Parimoo’s artistic life with the seriousness, warmth, and attention it deserves.

We extend our heartfelt thanks to every person who contributed to making this exhibition possible. To the lenders, collectors, scholars, artists, friends, collaborators, designers, fabricators, technicians, and everyone who worked quietly behind the scenes, this exhibition carries your effort within it.

Above all, we are profoundly grateful to Prof. Ratan Parimoo for his trust, generosity, and openness in allowing us to enter his world of works, archives, memories, and ideas.

On view till 16 June, the exhibition presents a major reassessment of one of the most intellectually rigorous yet under-recognised figures of Indian modernism. Staged across the CCA building at Bikaner House, it traces Parimoo’s journey from early figurative, landscape, academic, and Kashmir-related works of the 1950s to an independent and materially ambitious language of abstraction that developed from the mid-1950s through 1980.

Bringing together artworks, student records, Baroda Group material, letters, exhibition invitations, catalogues, photographs, Courtauld documents, lecture notices, and international correspondence, Grammar of Seeing positions Parimoo within a dense network of artistic and intellectual exchange, from Baroda to London, Bombay, MIT, Berkeley, and beyond.

This retrospective is more than a return to an artist’s career. It is a corrective act of looking. It asks us to reconsider Ratan Parimoo as a pioneering artist-scholar whose work expands the history of Indian abstraction through memory, method, material intelligence, and a disciplined grammar of seeing.

Grammar of Seeing: A Retrospective of Becoming
Curated by Satyajit Dave
Opens 12 June | 6:30 PM
CCA, Bikaner House, New Delhi

Join us for a panel discussion tomorrow evening at 4:00 PM, with Ratan Parimoo, Girish Shahane and Satyajit Dave.

The evening will continue with a documentary screening at 6:00 PM.

Ratan Parimoo: Grammar of Seeing, A Retrospective of Becoming presents a major reassessment of one of the most intellectually rigorous yet under-recognized figures of Indian modernism. Staged across the CCA building at Bikaner House, the exhibition traces Parimoo’s movement from early figurative, landscape, academic, and Kashmir-related works of the 1950s to an independent and materially ambitious language of abstraction that developed from the mid 1950s through 1980. Bringing together artworks, student records, credit score cards, Baroda Group material, letters, exhibition invitations, catalogues, price lists, photographs, Courtauld documents, lecture notices, and international correspondence, Grammar of Seeing: A Retrospective of Becoming positions Parimoo within a dense network of artistic and intellectual exchange. His proximity to figures, peers, and institutions such as N. S. Bendre, Mulk Raj Anand, Patwant Singh, Jyoti Bhatt, Gulammohammed Sheikh, Shanti Dave, Naina Dalal, the Courtauld Institute, the Museum Society of Bombay, the JDR III Fund, MIT, Berkeley, and Baroda’s Faculty of Fine Arts situates him within both Indian and global histories of modernism.
This retrospective is therefore not only a return to an artist’s career. It is a corrective act of looking. It asks viewers, scholars, institutions, and collectors to reconsider Parimoo as a pioneering artist scholar whose work expands the history of Indian abstraction through memory, method, material intelligence, and a disciplined grammar of seeing.

𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗮𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝗦𝗲𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗴: 𝗔 𝗥𝗲𝘁𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗕𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴
𝗖𝘂𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝗦𝗮𝘁𝘆𝗮𝗷𝗶𝘁 𝗗𝗮𝘃𝗲
🗓️ Opens on 12th June | 6:30 PM
📍: CCA, Bikaner House between Pandara Rd, &, Shahjahan Rd, India Gate, New Delhi, Delhi 110003