Bikaner House is set to host All the Beauty in the World, a solo exhibition of sculptures by architect, artist, and writer Gautam Bhatia, presented by WEFT Foundation. Opening on October 12, 2025, at 6:00 pm, the exhibition will run until October 17, 2025, transforming the Art Gallery of Bikaner House into a space of reflection and provocation.
The exhibition brings together about 20 recent sculptures by Bhatia, whose practice spans decades of architectural and artistic inquiry. Known for his sharp wit and layered commentary, Bhatia’s works oscillate between the satirical and the deeply human. The sculptural installations in this exhibition challenge the viewer to confront paradoxes of beauty, value, and contemporary existence.
Curated and designed by the WEFT Foundation, the exhibition adopts a black-box gallery approach—pared down, dramatic, and focused. Black walls, controlled lighting, and minimal interventions frame the works in a stark atmosphere, allowing visitors to experience each sculpture in heightened detail and intimacy.
Speaking about the exhibition, Gautam Bhatia notes:
This exhibition continues WEFT Foundation’s commitment to staging critical, experimental exhibitions across India and internationally, collaborating with artists, architects, and institutions to rethink how art is experienced in space.
Exhibition Details
- Title: All the Beauty in the World
- Artist: Gautam Bhatia
- Curated & Designed by: WEFT Foundation
- Dates: October 12–17, 2025
- Opening: October 12, 6:00 pm
- Venue: Bikaner House, New Delhi
About the Exhibition — All the Beauty in the World
All the Beauty in the World is an attempt to fuse two ordinary known objects in such a way that suggests an entangled contradiction. Through a union of conflicting items, the work also examines the difference between original intent and eventual form — between the individual object as noun and the dual object as verb.
When daily items are absolved of function, what they lose in usefulness, they gain in new unintended meaning. A cricket bat extends into a rifle; a clothes iron supports an axe as handle; a chair merges with a table, another emerges from the root of a tree…
When things are provoked into accidental fusion — obsolescence, exaggeration and subversion are but expected, as is the emergence of new symbols. Does the axe on the iron herald domestic violence? Does a rifle turn the cricket bat into blood sport? Is the bicycle pump as thoughtful a performer of the trumpet as a musician? What then of a camera that invades a private locker?
Design gives shape to forms of daily use; art, however, finds meaning in conflicted ambiguous purpose. Objects in denial, objects in dysfunction, objects in unrealised potential, objects in mistaken context, and others in subverted identity — fusion revives in them a hidden dimension.
Function without form, form matched by dysfunction, form in new form — All the Beauty… explores the contradictory reawakening of things that do not seem what they are.
Some of the works displayed:
(bottom) Carpenter Rag in Hammer and Saw, Welfare State, Water Music.
© Gautam Bhatia
About Gautam Bhatia
Gautam Bhatia is a New Delhi–based architect, artist, and writer. Over the past four decades, he has created a substantial body of work that critiques contemporary culture through drawing, sculpture, architecture, and text. His works are held in major private and institutional collections.
About WEFT Foundation
Founded in 2019 by Harsh Bhavsar and Arthur Duff, WEFT Foundation is a curatorial and design-led initiative dedicated to exhibitions, scenography, and cross-cultural dialogues. The foundation has collaborated with leading institutions and artists in India and internationally, building platforms for experimental artistic practices.
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