Art Alive Gallery will present Paresh Maity‘s monumental brass sculpture Equilibrium at Personal Structures: Confluences, a major contemporary art exhibition running alongside La Biennale di Venezia from 9 May to 22 November 2026 in Venice.
The European Cultural Centre Italy organises Personal Structures as a biennial event, and this 8th edition will occupy Palazzo Bembo, Palazzo Mora, and Marinaressa Gardens. Maity’s sculpture will stand at Marinaressa Gardens on Riva dei Sette Martiri, Giardini — the exhibition’s dedicated platform for large-scale public installations.
Equilibrium draws on traditional Indian spatial philosophy, structuring its form around the four cardinal directions and the four cosmic corners — Ishan, Agni, Nairit, and Vayu. Maity renders these ancient cosmological ideas in a freestanding geometric brass structure, whose balanced planes and linear axes suggest what he describes as an “invisible grid” sustaining all matter and movement within a greater universal harmony.
The choice of brass carries deliberate meaning. The material reflects light associated with the spiritual realm while anchoring the work in the physical world through its weight and permanence.
Sunaina Anand, Founder-Director of Art Alive Gallery, called the moment significant. “Recent years have seen Indian art gaining momentum on the global stage,” she said, “and with India present at the Biennale this year, this is truly a significant moment to showcase works that reflect both a deep-rooted cultural consciousness and a contemporary global dialogue.”
New Delhi-based Art Alive Gallery, approaching its 25th anniversary in 2026, has long championed Maity’s work, publishing The World on a Canvas: Paresh Maity in 2010. The gallery regularly participates in leading international art fairs and continues to push Indian contemporary art onto the global stage.
Personal Structures: Confluences opens to the public free of charge across all venues.
Athmaja Biju is the Editor at Abir Pothi. She is a Translator and Writer working on Visual Culture.
