Gallery Espace will be presenting a landmark show by the artist E.H. Pushkin , one of the founding members of the Radical Painters and Sculptures Association of the late 1980s from May 13 to June 7, 2008. This is the first significant Delhi show by the artist and will feature 15 key works executed between 2007 and 2008 and never previously shown. Eminent art critic R. Nandakumar , in his catalogue essay, writes about Pushkin's recent works.

Subjectivity as a philosophical category marks the voyage from the personal to the impersonal in the state of Being. Art tries to make sense of this transition in ways specific to it. To be engaged with the intimations of one's subjectivity in the pre-linguistic zone of consciousness that is beyond good and evil (in the Nietzschean sense) and at the same be rooted in one's reality perceptions is not something that comes easy to every artist. In the imagistic world of E. H. Pushkin fiction and vision collide with each other and mesh in the umbra of overtonal resonance that is drawn between the surreal and the conceptual. The fecundity of his imagery has to do with a streak of the surreal that informs a world of evanescent sensations and their fugitive shades at the threshold of consciousness before emerging as emotions in interaction with the content that the mind invests them with, which is to say, thought. In the painterly poetics of Pushkin, imagery is the material correlative of this world of experience in which thought and feeling share borders. Incidentally, a collection of his poems in Malayalam published recently which has the same title as one of his paintings, The Space of Invisible Days throws some light on this particular aspect of his creativity.