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Sanjay Bhattacharya the artist? Yes all of us know him. Sanjay Bhattacharya the poet? Intriguing!!Bengali poetry that fl its and forms the clouds of fantasy, that when recited by the artist himself brings back memories of the famed Uttam Kumar…
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LONGINGS OF THE EARTH UNDERSTANDING THE ARTISTIC PRACTICE OF DHANESHWAR SHAHThrough the nineties, contemporary India and its art have become increasingly urban centric. Locked in this myopia of an urban gaze, there has been a movement away from engaging with…
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Th e first painting of the Assam Toil series by Raj Kumar Mazinder was an acrylic on canvas of the same title, which was done in 2004. I saw this painting much later. Th e fi rst work that had…
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DUET OF SELF AND CIRCUMSTANCEAn examination of art works could do with a look at the nature of the self that creates them. Aft er all self and environment, and self and art are inextricably meshed. In other words, artistic…
INTERNATIONAL
SHUMON AHMED, HOME LAND Photographer Shumon Ahmed lives and works in Dhaka, Bangladesh; a country plagued by extreme weather conditions but equally resourced by fertile land. Since a boy, Ahmed has watched his mother country become something all its own….
ART & THEATRE
AFTERGLOW: PERFORMANCE ART AND PHOTOGRAPHY Th e title of this article does not call for a historical survey of the relationship between photography and performance art. Neither is my intention to pretend to worry about the complexity of the relation…
MEDIA & COMMUNICATION
INDIA ART FESTIVAL TO SHOWCASE OVER 500 ARTISTS & 40 ART GALLERIES —————————- THE BIGGEST ART FESTIVAL STARTS IN MUMBAI NEXT MONTH AT MMRDA GROUND, BANDRA-KURLA COMPLEX. ————————— India Art Festival, a modern and contemporary art fair, starting from 28…
PHOTO ESSAY
NATURE’S PERFECT CYCLE The sun emerges from the east. It showers the universe with its mystic light which we attribute as a bright sunny day. Everything occurs in perfect order in nature that man has consistently failed to adapt to….
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Iconography in Contemporary Times and Contemporary Iconology Iconography is a ‘pointer’ to the relevance of culturally recognized images, contained upon their own self. A sign is an arrow mark to a direction which separates itself from that direction. In this…
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Migrating Iconographies Iconography, as strictly defi ned, refers to the study of all visual symbols and/or the symbols themselves, but in popular usage iconography is nearly impossible to separate from religion and convention. Th e term itself elicits immediate associations…
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Issues of Iconography and Contemporary Indian Art: A Rethink. Let us consider the Contemporary Indian Art before we explore the issues of iconography. Apparent is the expansion of art into areas beyond the perimeter of painting, sculpture and perhaps we…
AMIT MUKHOPADHYAY’S COLUMN
NOTES FROM ‘LOWENIX’? No one has accused me of being so, not even the ‘unbidden chatterers’, but the point I have in mind for so long is, can religion be reconciled with reason because ‘secular’ and ‘spiritual’ always contradict each…
FACE TO FACE
‘WE HAVE BROKEN TABOOS AND MADE THE FORBIDDEN FASHIONABLE’ Celebrity Abu Jani and Sandeep Khosla are at the forefront of a glittering profession, having dressed such iconic illuminators as Amitabh Bachchan, Dimple Kapadia, Nikhil Nanda, Madhuri Dixit and Shahrukh Khan;…
INTERNATIONAL
DOCUMENTA 13 Documenta over the years has always been a refl ective and somewhat grim aff air. Historically the fi rst Documenta in 1955 took place to lift the sprits of Kassel, a German town suff ering from the aft…
PHOTO ESSAY
HAND MADE MEMORIES – BIRENDRA PANI My present series of Conceptual Photographs are related to my experience of human life and material culture in contemporary time. Th ese were generated during my travel in diff erent spaces in India and…
“Understanding the Polemics of ‘Tribal Art’ in the Contemporary Art Scenario”
This has been a query that has haunted the art world in almost a Benjaminian sense of haunting, which is, when anyone posits the query – what is art? This has been a contentious and much debated issue since human…
