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WELLS CLOUDS SKULLS marks Gieve Patel’s second exhibition with Bose Pacia. The exhibition includes three new large-scale paintings from the artist’s “Looking into a Well” series along with a selection of drawings from his cloud and skull series. For over twenty years, the artist has been exploring the theme of wells in his paintings. However, his artistic career has spanned across four decades and began with an in-depth look at human figures in very tactile and unapologetic situations. That he has now spent such an extensive time looking, and looking is the operative word, into wells, shows a significant shift and maturation in the artist’s conceptual trajectory.