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CHAKRA: LINKING TRADITION TO MODERNITYLate Keshav Malik pens down how artists of the Silpi Chakra group survived the impulses of the catastrophic partition and let their artistic spirit take an unrestricted form. Good for once to have christened the tiny,…
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K.C. ARYAN and DELHI SILPI CHAKRAK.C. Aryan successfully welded together Indianness with the language of modern art and topped it with his courage to experiment. His contribution to modern art in India remains unparalleled. Dr. Subhashini Aryan asserts. The year…
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New Idiom and Identity: Collective and Individual Search in post partition IndiaDr. Seema Bawa presents a capsule account of beginnings, confrontations and growth of the Delhi Silpi Chakra elaborating how the members of the Chakra endeavoured to demystify Indian art….
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Modernity/ Modernism posited by delhi silpi Chakra Mrinal Kulkarni elucidates how Delhi Silpi Chakra was one of the important movements forming the basis of a regime of modernity in post independent India. The Independence of India brought new attention to…
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Graphic art in india and abroad by Kanwal Krishna Art&Deal reproduces the edited text of a talk given by Kanwal Krishna on November 26, 1959 at the Delhi Silpi Chakra Gallery in which he specifies how travel opened a new…
Appreciation
A Feeling for Colour K. S. Kulkarni (1918-1994) From being forced to paint signboards to becoming a stalwart in modern Indian art; Dinkar Kowshik lists the struggles of K. S. Kulkarni observing the person in the artist.Krishna Shamrao Kulkarni, born…
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Headline: A Biennale is a Political Animal Manoj Nair Manoj Nair tries to capture the politics of aesthetics and business inviting a critical debate on the credibility of a ‘biennale’. A young boy stands on the west coast near the…
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Bienal de Sao Paulo: How to talk about things that don’t exist? Franck Barthelemy Opening on 6th September 2014, the 31st Biennial de São Paulo is a poetic call exploring the things that don’t exist in an attempt to understand…
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Biennales etc: the South Asian Experience Kurchi Dasgupta Kurchi Dasgupta calls for an open discussion on the need and fate of biennales and art fairs in this receding economy as she explores the Kathmandu International Art Festival and Colombo Art…
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The Imagined And The Other: Internationalism And Whitney Biennial: A Collective Dialogue Tanya Abraham The Whitney Biennial which began on the seventh of March in New York and closed on the twenty-fifth of May 2014 showcased artists of various genres….
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The Imagined and the other: Internationalism and Post- Colonial Hybridity In Indian Contemporary Art Bipin Balachandran Bipin Balachandran elucidates the concept of postcolonial subjectivity in Indian contemporary art and exemplifies how ‘hybridity’ plays an important role. While watching the contemporary…
PHOTO ESSAY
Project 080:30 and Live Art Lab, Bangalore, 2014 Priyanka Govil Bengaluru was bustling with performance art when I reached there on my first trip. 6 groups and individuals were supported by India Foundation for the Arts, Bangalore under it’s Project…
MATTERS OF HEART WITH PARAMJOT WALIA
Matters of Heart With Paramjot Walia Shridhar lyer Turbulent strokes in Shridhar Iyer’s works question the existence of form and ‘being’ acting as silent whispers of the universe. His works explore the mystic ethereal connection of matter and space inviting…
PROFILE
Sanjay Bhattacharya: The Versatile player of color Santanu Ganguly Whether the old vacant houses telling their stories or the realistic portraitures/scenes, Sanjay Bhattacharya successfully connects and subtly conveys the inner perceptions and outer realities under the absolute realism of his…
