Art & Deal

Monthly Art Magazine in India

    • Day: April 9, 2013

    Editorial

    Editorial

    Vinita DasGupta We have delineated a series of interesting Essays that brood on different issues concerning sculpture and public art. Sculpture could also be included under the broad category of public art for it awaits and elicits a reaction from…

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    Cover Story

    Cover Story

    In Conversation WITH BANAMALI SHARMA Art & Deal: The materials you use for your sculptures are terracotta, not very common today among sculptors. What is the reason behind this? Also it’s one of the ancient materials used for sculpture, especially…

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    Essay

    Essay

    Spectacles without a stage – an overview of Preksha Tater’s works This aspect of inclusion of the mundane appears again when she was working in the space of a fashion and design store, ‘Bombay electric’. She chooses a discarded wooden…

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    Face to Face

    Face to Face

    A SOCIALISATION OF ART Interview with Indranil Garai of IGA Art in the public allows for a changed dynamics in the artist/viewer connection. It is a challenge for the artist to envision something that blends into the available elements, and…

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    Feature

    Feature

    Seema Kohli – Parikrama The Yoginis, a group of tantric divinities (usually 64 or 81 in number) are not mothers, though the principal Yoginis are identified with the eight or Asthamatrikas. The Kaulajnananirnaya text (probably 11th century CE) tells us…

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    International

    International

    Idol Pursuits – Bharti Kher When given to considering sculpture and public art in the Indian subcontinent, it is impossible not to become aware of one of the current luminaries of contemporary Indian art, Bharti Kher has very quickly come…

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    History

    History

    Sculpture and its significance in Society Seema Bhalla In India, sculpture has played a role of importance with a different purpose. The Stambha (pillar) outside the temples have been having, on its top, the sculpture of a deity. The purpose…

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    Report

    Report

    With Love from a Cement Company R Dhanya A few years ago the BBMP (Bruhat Bangalore Mahanangara Palike) took upon the task of painting a large part of Bangalore’s public walls in blue, with historical ethnographic and cultural visual platitudes…

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    Film

    Cinema

    Lalon Fakir: Moner Manush of generations of baul singers… The film in a subtle way refers to the zamindari aspect of the famous Tagore clan and hints at Maharshi Devendranath Tagore to be a very strict zamindar. Although during the…

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    Essay

    Essay

    Detachment Vivek R. Singh ‘Bloom’ is a collection of paintings by artist Roohi Kapoor, showing at the Lalit Kala Akademi from the 28th of March to the 2nd April 2013. Recurring themes of fantasy and reality run throughout the show…

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    Review

    Review

    The Many Shade s of Black Three Decades of Carrie Mae Weems At The Frist Center For The Visual Arts like the lives of most African Edward Rubin The Frist Center For The Visual Arts, also known as “The Little…

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