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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…