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Confessions of a Chromo-Maniac -Bose Krishnamachari
Johny M L |
| These days Bose Krishnamachari quite often travels between Kochi and Mumbai. In Aluva, a small town near Kochi, Bose has acquired a huge piece of land for establishing a ‘museum’....» |
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"Come, Give Us a Speech" N.S.Harsha
H.A. Anil Kumar |
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| Harsha's painting titled "Come, Give Us a Speech" (2008) contains too manyfigures. But (and) because of the innumerable figures, the 'memory' of what is seen is erased immediately.. ...» |
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Of Being and Nothingness - Babu Eswar Prasad
Rollie Mukherjeea and V.Divakar |
| The representational world of Babu Eswar Prasad is an ambiguous site of unending tropes. Ambiguity shrouds the paintings via images/ objects drawn from varied sources like historical, popular, art historical and photographic. The viewers are made to take respite for a moment from one image to another, which leads to a stillness which is not silent.....» |
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A Victim of Tindrum Secularism -M.F.Husain
K. Bikram Singh |
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| In a recent interview to a weekly magazine (Tehelka, 2 Feb. 2008), Husain has bitterly commented, "The only way I can come back to India, perhaps, is if the BJP comes to power at the Centre.....» |
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Citing the City- Sudhir Patwardhan
Gopika Nath |
| As an artist, Sudhir Patwardhan has made a signifi cant contribution to the landscape of contemporary Indian Art. Working in a distinctly individual style, his paintings have focused in different ways, over the years, on the working classes....» |
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Kazi Nasir on Life’s Fragile Beauty
Pranabranjan Ray |
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| Among a plethora of disservice, that the colonial system of art education followed in the institutions established in the India metropolises during the alien rule, was impregnation in mentality, the notion that all kinds of representation of phenomena (objects, events and situations) in illusion is ic modes and fi delity to retinal sensation in art is to be regarded as realism......» |
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The Random Order of Being - Jai Jharotia
Shukla Sawant |
| The marvellous begins to be unmistakably marvellous when it arises from an unexpected alteration of reality (the miracle), from a privileged revelation of reality, an unaccustomed insight that is singularly favored by the unexpected richness of reality or an amplifi cation of the scale and categories of reality perceived with particular intensity by virtue of an exaltation of the spirit that leads it to a kind of extreme state.....» |
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Telling Stories: Remembering -Jaidev Thakore
Sandhya Bordewekar |
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| Jaidev Thakore was a master story-teller. He could tell a story very well, indeed, but he painted one even better. It is now two years since Jaidev Thakore passed away in early February at his home on the outskirts of Baroda.......» |
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Trans-Chennai and Personifying Self -Appropriating the Southern Discourse
V.R.Vaishnavi |
| George.K's sculptures of Aravanis (transgenders) negotiate an interesting politics of vision and space by introducing a subject that is often rendered by the society as unseen and invisible into a space that facilitates the act of viewing.....» |
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From no-Gallery to Many Galleries the History and Present of Art Galleries in Kerala
Johny M L |
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| The history of art galleries in Kerala has an intricate connection with the history of mass migration of Kerala artists to the other art centers in India. Raja Ravi Varma’s decision to leave the erstwhile state of Travancore.....» |
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The Baroda School of Radicals and Indian Historiographic Amnesia
Rahul Bhattacharya |
| This article looks at how Indian contemporary art historians have located the subaltern and radical movements in a sanitised sphere of personal empathies. During the National Seminar on Art and Activism (Baroda, 2004) when Alex Mathew finished his slide show and was answering questions....» |
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Indian Contemporary Art Today: An Experience from Paris to Delhi
Christine Ithurbide |
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| Paris, 2005 – Ending with the cliché on Indian iconography, Taj Mahal, woman with sari, cows, a new window had to be opened on India and what else could be a better instrument for this than art? For the fi rst time, French public was introduced to some major creations of Indian contemporary artists......» |
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Contemporary Indian Ceramics
Sandhya Bordewekar |
| "Clay, used as a medium of expression as well as function, is the longest lived practice by Man," explains Trupti Patel, the curator of a three-part exhibition on ceramics titled Indian Ceramics Today, held at the Lemongrasshopper Gallery in Ahmedabad, that was organized in October, December (2007) and February (2008).....» |
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Annual Display M.S.U
Bhavna Kakar |
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| Being an alumnus of Dept. of Art History, M.S. University, Baroda, going to the Faculty is always reminiscent of student days. Many things remain and many have changed. The Faculty display on 7th-8th May of the outgoing MVA and BVA was a mixed bag of good, bad and experimental. The carefree attitude is gone and is replaced by a professional, business-oriented attitude in these young students. The reason probably lies with galleries queuing to snap up artists. Some photographs that give a round-up of the display.....» |
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Kala Ghoda Art Festival
Vrushali Dhage |
| THE KALA GHODA ARTS FESTIVAL (From the 2nd to the 10th of February 2008) offered visitors a chance to enjoy a variety of activities ranging from instructional seminars to live performances. The event, tenth year, took over the streets of Kala Ghoda in South Mumbai, cluttering the pavement with numerous stalls that allowed one to sample food and purchase curios......» |
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A Turning Point or the Changing Taste?
Rajashree Biswal |
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| With the growing obscurity of well- known Indian artists displaying their art work in their homeland (let alone in public galleries) and the increasing inaccessibility to the private galleries, the show "A..Maz..Ing" by the RPG in January 2008...» |
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On Lingual Length of Sound
Suvadeep Das |
| For now, lingual length of sound is the version I am looking for. What, if all that is formal, comes out a bit irregular, out of the usual composition, frameless yet covering the vertical infi nity in its maiden pimitation. What, if the thing that we know as narration, attempts to come out of its predictable identity. What, if the sound on its length, tends to relish a spatial form in the midst of patterned sculptural cousins.....» |
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Storytelling
Natasha Bissonauth in Conversation with Chitra Ganesh |
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| Chitra Ganesh (1975 - ) works in a variety of media and sifts through myriad sources to reassess untold and incomplete stories of certain power relations, often regarding sexual, racial and political encounters. Ganesh uses myth as her main vehicle to reveal the fragmented nature of historical and cultural meta-narratives....» |
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Plays with Us: Sheila Makhijani
Nuzhat Kazmi |
| It is late indeed for this text to appear, which actually was inspired by a remarkable show of artist Sheila Makhijani mounted by Anant Gallery in New Delhi. But writing now on Sheila and her works is a continued pleasure and engagement for me....» |
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Confronts the Coexistence of Science and Emotion -Ajay Dhandre
Abhijeet Tamhane |
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| In this age of computer-aided design, Ajay Dhandre chose the arduous way to conceptualize, visualize, draw and render his drawings. Five years after, at his first solo show at the Museum Gallery, Mumbai, the works quelled the questions about the artist's difficult path and gave way to newer, more introvert questions to a discerning viewer....» |
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The Discovery of Air… - Yashwant Deshmukh
Abhijeet Tamhane |
| Air in Yashwant Deshmukh's paintings took various forms and shapes. It went into round pots, open pans or was obstructed by cubes or some mass of other shape and size. To read the narrative of the air that Yashwant proposes, many had to wait for his recent (seventh since 1996) solo show at the Bombay Art Gallery from February 26 - March 15, 2008....» |
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Rafeeq Ellias
Vrushali Dhage |
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| Rafeeq Ellias’ photography show titled 'Rafeeq Ellias Selected Photographs' was housed at the Museum Art Gallery, from the 6th of November to the 18th of November '07. Along with the show, a book titled 'Rafeeq Ellias Selected Photographs' was published by Gallerie Publishers....» |
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Khoj Kolkata - Eastern India’s Approach to Alternate Art Practice
Oindrilla Maity |
| The environs claiming historical signifi cance appeared none the less signifi cant to quite a number of the participants. The garage, sprawled with motor parts of vintage cars turned out to be inspirational, as well. The adi (=old) Ganga, which once flowed from the area to join the main river has been hindered by bunds at many places as a result of civilization’s intrusion.....» |
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Kolkata Now
Oindrilla Maity |
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| It often seems queer when one considers how the dwindling effects of the Bengal school continued to paralyze the art practices in Bengal. Art practices in Bengal, eventually faced a complete set back and not much came up in the form of a movement after the Calcutta Group of Painters (founded in 1943) broke up, as compared to the rest of India. ...» |
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"The Magic of Making" -K G Subramanyan
Shoma Das |
| The recent works of KG Subramanyan, exhibited in Gallery Sumukha, Bangalore from 20th February to 8th March, are a veritable lesson in modernism. The works speak powerfully of an artist who has given form to a personal vision through a contemporary style that is a mix of post-cubist and fauvist...» |
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The Feb Group Show - Always a Breath of Fresh Air
Sandhya Bordewekar |
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| The Annual Feb Group Show is an unusual initiative by a group of artists in Baroda which celebrated its 6th year this February. Sandhya Bordewekar examines how it all started and where it is going....» |
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Towards a "New Viewership/Audience"?
Rajashree Biswal |
| While the viewer is a buying/non-buying public with the direct experience of viewing art, the analytic entity “audience” is meaningful in relation to the rest of the art system of which it is a part and as a part of the society to which it belongs....» |
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10 Light Years
Tanya Abraham |
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| Emerges from it. Works of display began small, that in its natural form grew with interest and passion, the arrival of Bombay x 17, 17 artists residing in Bombay who came with Bose Krishnamachari to showcase their works...» |
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B D Dethan
Tanya Abraham |
| "Mind Collage", a mélange of the mind, comprehensive thought processes that intricately weave together a tapestry of colours. B D Dethan, an artist of yesteryears continues to submit to creativeness and submerge in the start of many a new style....» |
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Contemplative Abstracts - Sheetal Gattani
Dr. Ashrafi S. Bhagat |
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| The walls of Gallery Sumukha recently wore a spiritual aura, clad with abstract canvases that were intense and pure expressions of communion between the artist and her materials....» |
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The Huddled Masses-Iranna’s Protest Art
Donald Kuspit |
| In what is clearly a tour de force of protest art, a masterpiece of social commentary, Iranna shows us the human truth of our times, shows us how far man has fallen; abject and anonymous, stripped naked and emasculated, his fi gure squat submissively, like dogs waiting to spring up and do their master’s bidding....» |
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