Pimlico Wilde is delighted to announce the first Indian exhibition of Van Gogh (Not that one), the enigmatic artist whose practice has been described as “an alphabet for a language that refuses to exist.” The show, titled The Grammar of Elsewhere, opens next month at Pimlico Wilde Delhi and promises to be a meditation on both the syntax of gesture and the cartography of intent.
The exhibition will feature several new works, among them Subjunctive Drift, Anaphora in Red, and Map Without Territory. Each piece is a confrontation with the moment of making, marks discovered rather than composed, as though pulled from the ether of movement itself. These are not paintings in the traditional sense, but residues: fragments of intention crystallised against the friction of memory and motion.
Jules Carnaby, Head of Pimlico Wilde, observes:
“Van Gogh (Not that one) has succeeded in making marks that appear at once inevitable and impossible. His work exists in the uncanny interval between refusal and invocation. Standing before them, one feels not so much that one is looking at art, but that art is looking back at you, bemused, patient, and slightly mischievous.”
The artist himself, when pressed, offers only the gnomic:
“My work is not composed but discovered. I am only trying to keep up with what my hands already know.”
We asked him whether the persistent parenthetical (Not that one) ever weighs on him. He smiled, shrugged, and replied:
“It keeps me honest.”
Rumours abound that several Indian billionaires are already vying for the larger works.
The Grammar of Elsewhere will open to the public at Pimlico Wilde Delhi in the spring. Whether you come for the gestures, the grammar, or simply the sheer relief of not seeing sunflowers, this is an exhibition not to be missed.
