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Lot Essay
Anant Joshi’s monumental canvases from the series May Look Closer Than They Appear communicate the artist’s experience of urban sprawl and the explosive growth of consumption in cities like Mumbai. Like his large scale installations, these paintings offer an immersive experience for the viewer, first attracting them with their sheen and then challenging them to look beyond it and understand why all that glitters is not necessarily gold.
As the art critic of The New York Times, Holland Cotter, writes, "Cities in Asia are changing fast. They're going up and coming down at about equal speed. Urban culture, flooded with global goods and media, is changing too. Inevitably, such transformations have a big impact on art and are the subjects of new work by Anant Joshi, who lives and works in Mumbai.” (“Art in Review; Anant Joshi”, The New York Times, 27 October 2006)
As the art critic of The New York Times, Holland Cotter, writes, "Cities in Asia are changing fast. They're going up and coming down at about equal speed. Urban culture, flooded with global goods and media, is changing too. Inevitably, such transformations have a big impact on art and are the subjects of new work by Anant Joshi, who lives and works in Mumbai.” (“Art in Review; Anant Joshi”, The New York Times, 27 October 2006)