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Babbar&rsquo;s sitters span friends from his childhood in Rohtak, a city north-west of Delhi, pan-sellers, dancers from the south of India, family members, as well as himself.<br \/>\n<strong><em>Indian Summer <\/em><\/strong>is the first publication on Babbar, which features reproductions of over forty works created from 2020&ndash;23 and views of his 2023 exhibitions at Nahmad Projects, London, and Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice. Lock Kresler, Senior Director at Helly Nahmad Gallery, London, introduces the book, explaining his first encounters with Babbar and his practice. An essay by art historian, broadcaster, and commentator Dr Cleo Roberts-Komireddi examines how Babbar uses his materials, treats his subjects, and delves into his sources of inspiration, classic Hindi and Tamil cinema and the School of London artists.<br \/>\nBabbar celebrates the individual as he showcases the diversity of his country in his textural, rich, and joyful portraits that teem with life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian Summer presents a group of skilful and expressive figurative paintings in oil on canvas and linen by India-born, London-based artist Raghav Babbar (b. 1997), first shown at Nahmad Projects in 2023.<br \/>Foreword by Lock Kresler<br \/>\nHuman Interest: Raghav Babbar&rsquo;s People by Dr Cleo Roberts-Komireddi<br \/>\nPlates and Exhibition Views<br \/>\nBiographies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":48384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[5523],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-48383","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-art","7":"author-by-author-raghav-babbar","8":"publisher-hurtwood-press-ltd","9":"series-hurtwood-contemporary-artist-series","11":"first","12":"instock","13":"shipping-taxable","14":"purchasable","15":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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