India Art Festival 2013
Of Journeys Mapped, Unmapped: Vidya Menon I Shepherd and the Slave: Balaji Ponna In a woman’s world: Rekha Rodwittiya I Arriving at the Self: Poonam Agarwal A true freedom: Meenal Jain I Keeping the Faith: Radhika Seksaria Her Myths to…
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MOVING FOCUS THE INDIA ART FESTIVAL 2013 Johny ML JohnyML: The third edition of India Art Festival has now moved back to the Nehru Centre. What is the reason for moving it from Bandra-Kurla Complex back to Nehru Centre? Rajendra:…
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ETERNAL QUEST Ravi Mandlik/ Rajendra Ravi Mandlik has emerged as one of the foremost abstractionists in the country today. He has served at his alma mater Sir J J School of Arts, as a lecturer between mid-eighties to mid-nineties after…
INTERNATIONAL
THE METAPHORICAL LAMB THE ART OF WURIGEN Theodore Cantrell Wurigen is one of China’s leading contemporary artists. His works are a reflection of his life experiences of growing up on the grasslands of Mongolia, and his experiences of being part…
BOOK REVIEW
ISLAMIC AND ORIENTAL ARMS AND ARMOUR Anjali Devidayal “As a source of images of the finest Asian weapons, this book is unrivaled and will be an indispensable resource for anyone interested in the subject in the future.” Launched in London…
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MULTIPOINT INTERNATIONAL ART SYMPOSIUM 2013, SLOVAK Dhaneshwar Shah The European Union has very significantly enriched its cultural wealth as well as its cultural diversity. Art has to search for a new position in society or, vice versa. Nitra is one…
MATTERS OF HE ART
Paramjot Walia What is your definition of ‘Art’?George Martin: To me art is the “way of life” and “search for the absolute”.What art do you most identify with?GM: Visual ArtName two artists you’d like to be compared to?GM: Franz Ackermann,…
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Lina Vincent Sunish AN ARTS DISTRICT: WHO FOR? Hypothetically, there are two large and untouched audiences for an art district in Bangalore – one in the IT industry, and the other in schools. Perhaps 2014 is the time to involve…
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Sandhya Bordewekar Gallery-hopping in Vadodara and Ahmedabad ‘Mandi’ in Hindi means ‘market’ and in Gujarati with a soft ‘d’, it could mean ‘recession’. Mandi is affected by Mandi but in Ahmedabad and Baroda, galleries make all their best efforts to…
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Waswo X Waswo A Desirable Destination? the art district as social phenomenon If India’s urban art districts are to defy the cycle of flourish and decay, then politicians, community planners, gallerists and business leaders might want to keep an eye…
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Franck Barthelemy Judgement of Paris:Intelligent Art Districts Is Paris coming back 50 years after having lost its hegemony in contemporary art to the USA? With the thriving art districts in Paris that constitute the fifty per cent of the total…
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Johny ML Sculptures in the Open Open air sculptures are not strictly public sculptures but sculptures need open air to ‘breath’. K.S.Radhakrishnan, even when he conceives gallery based sculptures, thinks of the possible ‘open air’ where they could have a…
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Sushma Sabnis Enigma of Art Districts Mueller Bhavan, J. J. School of Art, Artist’s Centre, etc. The centre of this zone, the Kala Ghoda area, is flanked on either side by the private galleries and institutions which act as symbiotic…
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Johny ML Lado Sarai : Art District or a Street of Galleries? Analyzing the spatial logistics of Lado Sarai and Hauz Khas, gallerists’ dilemmas and the much lacking community ‘feeling’ required for the evolution of any art district, JohnyML highlights…
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Girish Shahane Riding on an Invisible Black Horse :Colaba Art District Pundole Gallery at Flora Fountain in the north, and Sakshi and Lakeeren at Arthur Bunder Road, the ‘Arab Quarter’ of Colaba in the south, Mumbai’s ‘Art District’ oscillates between…
PHOTO ESSAY
Debadutta Saha B o u n d l e s s Chi ldhood . . . . . . . . . spotted at the Bank of river Brahmaputra, Tezpur, Assam, seems very rare in today’s fast and busy world….
