A landmark show offers a broad exploration of Akkitham Narayanan’s evocative body of work — an invitation into his visual cosmology, where geometry, spirituality and memory converge. On view at the Jehangir Art Gallery in Mumbai until November 25, the show, ‘Geometries of the Infinite’, has been curated by Anahita Daruwala Banerjee and presented by Artworld.

Born in Kerala in 1939, Narayanan is one of the most remarkable voices in Indian abstract painting. His art is often described as a fusion of Indian tantric symbolism and European geometric abstraction — a delicate balancing act between the spiritual and the rational. What sets his practice apart is his nuanced relationship with form, colour and the invisible. Though formally abstract, his compositions often gesture toward elemental m

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