Art & Deal

Monthly Art Magazine in India

Month: August 2014

Cover Story

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

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…

Cover Story

COVER STORY

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…

Cover Story

COVER STORY

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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…

Photo Feature

PHOTO FEATURE

Tat Tvam Asi – Nature’s Burial – N. P. Jayan Balachandran V. Whatever I dig up of you, O earth, May you of that have quick replenishment! O purifying one, May my thrust never reach unto your vital points, your…

Feature

FEATURE

Acts of Occupation Waswo X. Waswo Waswo X. Waswo probes the shifting boundaries of the collaboration of different minds behind the exhibition “Sleeping through the Museum”. Collabor ation: 1. The act of working with another or others on a joint…

Review

REVIEW

Embalming a Museum Culture Sushma Sabnis From wide eyed awe to boredom relieving yawns and every reaction between these two extremes, is what a museum could evoke in its audience. Artist Waswo X Waswo and his collaborators snip away with…

Review

REVIEW

S. H. Raza and His Litany of Color and Form Shruthi Issac S.H. Raza’s untamed landscapes add aesthetic sensibility to his memories whereas the ‘Bindu’ serves as a focus of universal energy. Shruthi Issac reviews the ongoing solo show of…

Review

REVIEW

Circumambulating Melancholy From inside Out Venkatesh K. N Crosstalk is about four artists’ different expressions for a common pursuit; personal yet universal struggle to cope with the contemporary living. Venkatesh K N reviews. The recent show Crosstalk at Sumukha gallery…

Review

REVIEW

Of Truth, Peace & Love Neelam Malhotra Eva’s sensibility of composition, language of colors and forms all come together, without resistance and in total balance with matter and energy to create abstraction that elevates to spirituality and catalyzes paths to…

Review

REVIEW

The Cassandra in you.. Paramjot Walia ‘You Can’t Keep Acid In A Paper Bag’ brings home some of the installations and international projects of Nalini Malani, one of the foremost artists of India today, that have never been shown before….

Editorial

EDITORIAL

A reluctant monsoon seems to have finally set in. As the cool showers bring down the mercury the KGAF prepares vehemently to plunge into its seventeenth year. The Kala Ghoda Arts Festival, it is, arguably the first of Art Festivals…