© Ikon Gallery
© Ikon Gallery
Balraj Khanna: Lines of Flight
30 September 2026 to 21 February 2027
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Over 40 paintings from six decades trace Khanna's layered abstraction, shaped by the Punjab, post-war Britain and nature, with themes of migration and Partition.
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Ikon presents Lines of Flight , the first major survey exhibition of British–Indian artist Balraj Khanna (1939–2024). Bringing together more than 40 paintings made over six decades, Lines of Flight offers the most comprehensive overview to date of Khanna’s remarkable career as a painter, writer and curator. The exhibition traces the evolution of his distinctive vision of abstraction, shaped by his youth in the Punjab region of India, his life in post-war Britain,...
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The Guardian
Ben Eastham
Plenty of dazzle, but where is the darkness?
"Like magic tricks, these paintings attract your gaze but do not hold it for long. My lingering feeling was that this was no longer a failure: the artist preferred, for reasons of temperament, to excite the eye rather than trouble the mind."
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