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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…

Memories

Memories of a valiant Effort : Amba SanyalThe little child in the photograph of the Delhi Silpi Chakra members with an Indonesian delegation was me an eon ago – witnessing something whose significance I was totally oblivious of. Artists, who…

Memories

Memories of Delhi Silpi Chakra Paramjeet Singh reveals his own journey as part of the Silpi Chakra and hopes that the Chakra could continue with the same zeal and positivity that defined it in the early years. If we go…

Memories

Nand Katyal recalls the time when Silpi Chakra witnessed strong companionships, long discussions, an atmosphere where creative spirit could breathe, when quality was not governed by price tags, and a space conducive for personal growth.In the 50s Silpi Chakra enjoyed…

Memories

Delhi Silpi Chakra : A Living HistoryKrishan Ahuja presents a brief memoir of Delhi Silpi Chakra, a group that still breathes through the works of the veteran artists produced at that time. My first visit to Delhi Silpi Chakra gallery…

Memories

Delhi Silpi Chakra: Down My Memory LaneF-19, Shankar Market, the space that is now locked once breathed art, music and witnessed creative innovations. Jagdish Dey chronicles this journey of the Delhi Silpi Chakra. In the late forties a group of…

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…

Essay

B.C. Sanyal and the Mayo School of Arts, Lahore: A Historical link in partitioned sub-indian ContinentAs India was struggling for its independence from the British Raj and later redefining itself post independence, Prof. B.C. Sanyal and Mayo School of Arts,…

Essay

Lessons of a MasterSailoz Mookherjea was one of the foremost artists of the Modern Indian Art World. Eminent art critic Keshav Malik takes a very close look at his endearing artistic personality; a personal account of a very committed artist,…

Essay

Dinkar Kowshik – A Life Truly LivedBhaiya Da, of Santiniketan, traces the journey of Dinkar Kowshik from Dharwar, in Karnataka, to Santiniketan in West Bengal – from the place of his birth to the ‘place of his rebirth.’ A sensitive…

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Makers of history: Jaya appaswamyMrinal Kulkarni chronicles the life of Jaya Appaswamy highlighting the journey of the pioneer artist not as the founder of Delhi Silpi Chakra group but as a connoisseur and a fine collector.Discontinuity in an artist’s creative…

Essay

rajesh Mehra If Delhi claims to be one of the important centers of contemporary Indian art, it owes it to the Delhi Silpi Chakra group members. Dr. Seema Bawa talks about one such eminent member of the Silpi Chakra group,…

Tribute

Jagmohan Chopra: artist and teacher Anupam Sud pays tribute to Jagmohan Chopra who mentored a whole generation of Indian printmakers like her under the Group 8 aegis, creating a new Indian graphic vocabulary. “The mind is not a vessel to…

Tribute

Art is an adventure that never ends.. Born to be a master and a legend.. Any kind of art form requires courage to take forward and leaves a mark ahead of time and space. For him art was his personal…

Photo Essay

‘Re-wheeling The Chakra’ A Delhi Silpi Chakra Retrospective

Press Coverage

EDITORIAL

This is a special year for Art & Deal. Initiated a decade and a half ago, it began as the only art magazine from the capital. Dedicated to art and its many facets; with like emphasis on renowned, radical, contemporary…

COVER STORY

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…

COVER STORY

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….

ESSAY

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…

ESSAY

Charak Puja: A Bengali Folk Festival Dr. Dipendu Das Charak Puja symbolises not only the co existence of human and nature but also mysticism; with the devotees feeling no pain inspite of being pierced and hung from hooks Dr.Dipendu Das…

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…

INTERVIEW

Taking the World into Consideration- A Conversation with Dutch Artist Jackie Sleper Edward Rubin Jackie Sleper’s work is characteristic of keen observation and reflects her study of cultures/traditions. Edward Rubin in conversation with the Dutch Artist . In a highly…

INTERVIEW

In Conversation with Amit Vadehra Paramjot Walia Established in 2006, CRAYON CAPITAL today is one of India’s leading Art Advisory Services companies, providing wide range of services in the Indian Art Market. Crayon Capital played a key role as Art…

REPORT

Patriarch Of The Palette: M. F. Husain Uma Nair Uma Nair elucidates how the final series made by M.F. Husain, India’s most prolific artist, showcased at the Victoria and Albert (V&A) Museum celebrate the ‘Indian-ness’ in him. Indian Civilization is…

REPORT

Der Langste Tag / The Longest Day. 16 hours non-stop outdoor performances Irene Müller & Dorothea Rust Performance art doesn’t need to confine itself to festivals or an institutional context, it creates its own space accepting and engaging the viewer….

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…