Art & Deal

Monthly Art Magazine in India

Year: 2013

International

International

Indian Galleries at Art Basel Uma Prakash Due to the prohibitive cost of attending International art fairs, very few Indian galleries participate in art fairs, although, the numbers are increasing every year. However, Art Basel’s thriving market and opportunity for…

Cinema

Cinema

The 100 Crore Fiesta : Are Ideas Invited? Dr. Ayiriddhi Bhattacharjee So far, around twenty films have attained the cult status of being in the 100 crore club. After Ghajini in 2008, another Aamir Khan movie made its way into…

Photo Essay

Photo Essay

Ajaya kumar Spread throughout Tamilnadu are sculptural images of mythical/ancient characters (traditionally Panchapandavas) that belong to a unique art form worthy of being presented in contemporary mega shows like major Art fairs & the Biennials of our times. However, these…

Report

Report

George Town Unobscured Penang as a regional art centre Waswo X. Waswo A large crowd was also in attendance during the opening talk by Maggie Steber at her exhibition, The Audacity of Beauty. The venue, at George Town’s soon-to-officially-open Camera…

Report

Report

Being Afloat in Kustia Binoy PaUl’s Vashan Art & Deal Correspondent Binoy Paul used plastic and cloth as his artistic media. He started a sort of story using patches of a thinly-threaded towel, locally called gamcha in Bengali, stitched to…

Book Review

Book Review

My Love Affair with Katharine Kuh JohnyML One day Katharine found that a bunch of postal stamps were missing from her work desk. A solo show by a young artist, Charles Sebree, was on at that time in her gallery….

Review

Review

CHANDIGARH’S NEK CHAND IN LONDON (London) UMA NAIR In the exhibition, the life-sized seated monkeys in reddish concrete are mysteriously thoughtful, like Buddha figures. A large, flat bird figure, its opulent surface made of translucent green glass fragments, testifies to…

Review

Review

AN UNLIKELY PAIR (Mumbai) Lina Vincent Sunish The show came about as a result of Jen’s stay in India for a sixmonth residency programme of the Art Foundation of Nordrhein- Westfalen, in cooperation with the Goethe Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan, Mumbai….

Editorial

Editorial

The nineteenth century saw the invention of a beautiful device known as the camera obscura. The dictionary explains the meaning: a darkened chamber or small building in which images of outside objects are projected onto a flat surface by a…

Cover Story

Cover Story

An Inconclusive Autopsy on a Non-existent Corpse Waswo X. Waswo But there are differences of course, and I can dispute my own words. To understand those differences it is good to remember Stieglitz and the Photo-Secession movement he guided in…

Cover Story

Cover Story

Framing violence, pain and others through the moving images of B.V. Suresh Aparna Roy Baliga Since 2001, B.V. Suresh has started working on videos. His very first work ‘Introspection’ is based on photographic stills from documentaries on the second world…

Cover Story

Cover Story

Imaging their Subjectivity : Transsexuals and Photo graphy Siddharth Sivakumar After dealing with trans-sexuality from a diachronic perspective, in her Alice at Frederick’s of Hollywood, Mariette situates trans-sexuality in a synchronic time-frame. The image has captured the three representatives of…

Essay

Essay

How is it! Photography, today? H.A.Anil Kumar As the general belief goes, the alleged claim that negativebased photography is losing its charm and classicism could also be similar to the older generation being dissatisfied with their 3Gs (third generations). Photography,…

Essay

Essay

‘THE PHOTOS (C)HOPPED BODY’ Digital photography and the politics of desire Bipin Balachandran When everyone becomes a photographer as what is happening nowadays, the amateur/professional distinction becomes blur in photography. Any event can be recorded and circulated publically. This flood…

Feature

Feature

The CAPTION A probe into the birth and use of text to make meaning of photographs and its revolution in recent times R. Dhanya Probably the easiest to go without captions are landscapes or images of ‘natural beauty’. How often…

Feature

Feature

PHOTOGRAPHY….. WHERE TO FOCUS? Dr .Meghali Goswami There is no such thing as true objectivity, of course, in photography or any other medium. By its nature, a photograph is an incomplete and therefore slanted picture of reality; it is a…

Feature

Feature

Enticing Images: Malls as Albums Sushma Sabnis If one travels into a distant future, one might nostalgically look at their then favourite mall structure with some then old actress selling the then used to be lotion-potion for eternal beauty. When…

Cinema

Cinema

Remembering Rituparno… Dr. Ayiriddhi Bhattacharjee Picking the right actor for a character was his forte as a director. He not only offered great roles to Bollywood actresses ranging from Sharmila Tagore, Rakhee, Kiron Kher, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Monisha Koirala, Preity…

Photo Essay

Photo Essay

Dilip Banerjee I never thought of photography as a profession when pondering over my carrier options. But capturing the colours of human lives, the decisive moments in black and white without shades of grey is perhaps most rewarding. To me,…

Photo Essay

Photo Essay

Shefali Munjal I like to portray the people living on the edge. In the present series I have showed people from the high ranges like Leh and Laddakh. Serenity is a sort of predominant theme in my works though behind…

Photo Essay

Photo Essay

Pranab Seal As she steps forward a new world awaits her, land of dreams or land of dying hope where camouflaged demons await in gloom, from light to darkness is this right direction

History

History

A Brief History of ‘Camera, clicks and capture’ Sayan Dey Life, a weekly, immediately hit the stands and many others like Look, See, Photo, Picture, and Click joined the queue. Look went out of business in 1972; Life suspended publication…

International

International

RAM SHERGILL Everything Beautiful Rajesh Punj Immediately after the shoot, Shergill walked the half distance from Treacy’s studio to Isabella Blow’s apartment, let in by Blow herself he recalls she was on the telephone with the American Vogue, and she…

Review

Review

Life seen as a toy shop on the canvas Art & Deal Correspondent Shukla looks to tell a story with each of his exhibitions. This particular collection of paintings is inspired by the artist’s four year old daughter and her…

Editorial

EDITORIAL

‘Art has no religion or cast, it transcends all barriers’. Hindustan(then) has had multiple foreign powers ruling that have left behind their artistic and cultural heritage. In this regard, the Mughals from Persia established their reign in Central and North-Western…

Contributors

Contributors

Aparna Roy Baliga teaches Art History at Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda. Sushma Sabnis is a writer and artist based in Mumbai. H.A. Anil Kumar is an Art Historian, Art critic and lecturer at Chitrakala Parishath University in Bangalore. Bhoo mika…

Cover Story

Cover Story

Contextualising the self in multiple traditions –a discussion on the paintings by Poushali Das Aparna Roy Baliga Poushali doesn’t only uses the traditional language but even the medium of tempera.She uses wash technique to get the subtleness required for her…

Cover Story

Cover Story

Bringing a Macro World into Microcosmic Narratives Sushma Sabnis The breaking down of a system, blindly followed, led by an un-adaptable truth – a single truth or plural truths, depending upon the addressed issues, the choice of right versus wrong…

Essay

Essay

Miniatures: Appearances invisible to Sight H.A.Anil Kumar The innumerable flora, fauna and animals that were painted, were like the genre of still life: the commissioner thought that making an album of animals that he/she possess is one way of revealing…

Feature

Feature

The prior substantiating the current: miniature Bhoomika Jain Anindita’s Bhattacharya’s works are a personal interpretation of a collective experience woven in and around the traditional consort of miniature paintings. Having lived and studied in Baroda and witnessing the perpetual communal…

Feature

Feature

God is in the details: Tradition of the Islamic Arts Yasra Daud With the crowning of Akbar as emperor, the art of manuscript illustration began accommodating regional influences along with Persian technicality. Abd as –Samad and Mir Sayyid Ali were…

Obituary

Obituary

Art & Deal – Correspomdent K. Bikram Singh The reign of Jahangir and Shah Jahan are known for a number of innovations in the arts. For instance, female portraiture was unheard of, before Jahangir assigned court painters the task of…

Report

Report

The Modern Miniature : A Global Collaboration? Sandhya Bordewekar In late 2009, she returned to India to work on a complex collaborative project with Ajay Sharma. In such a situation, it was already clear that both artists came from tremendously…

History

History

Mughal miniature : The Visual Language of Contemporary Art Now, two important changes occurred in the history of Persia. On the political level the Safavid dynasty replaced the Turkomans, and took over Herat from Uzbeks. As a result under the…