Art & Deal

Monthly Art Magazine in India

Year: 2014

Report

REPORT

Edinburgh Fringe Festival Uma Prakash In August, Edinburgh witnesses the world’s largest art festival, The Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Born out of Edinburgh International Festival, the fringe festival is a festive platform celebrating all genres of art from music to theatre…

Photo Feature

PHOTO FEATURE

Durga-Dynam ics of power, gender bias and a st ory of Widows in India Sharmistha Dutta This is a self-financed photography project that I took up as I wanted to address the immense apathy and gender inequality that exists against…

Profile

PROFILE

Jayashree Chakravarty : If You Will Stay Close To Nature Uma Nair “If You Will Stay Close To Nature”, an exhibition by Jayashree Chakravarty at Vadehra Art Gallery,Delhi could be called an autobiographical documentation exploring the artist’s intimacy with nature,…

Profile

PROFILE

BRICK AS A UNIT Shubhalakshmi Shukla Vivek Sonawane uses brick as a metaphor of not the inherent stability of the material but to evoke what’s hidden and protected by the wall. As the artist lets his art speak for him,…

Book Review

BOOK REVIEW

Learning from Mumbai: Practicing Architecture in Urban India- Subhra Mazumdar The city of Bombay or Mumbai has held a fascination not only for fortune seekers and cine aspirants but also for students of architecture. They flock to the city charmed…

Preview

PREVIEW

Sri Hanuman Chalisa : Film and Exhibition Paramjot Walia Don’t mistake it for just another exhibition exploring the safe Indian mythological subject. Charuvi Agrawal’s works remould the space into an experience says Paramjot Walia. It is not just the myths…

Matters of heArt

MATTERS OF HEART WITH PARAMJOT WALIA

Matters of he Art With Paramjot walia Inder Salim Art&Deal : For you, Inder Salim is someone who is..Inder Salim : Inder Salim is a conceptual construct, besides a projection that negotiates the presence of being of Inder Salim in…

Review

REVIEW

Kalpvriksha-The Tree of Life Paramjot Walia Arts Of The Earth is showcasing ‘Kalpvriksha- The Tree of Life’, an unique exhibition not only because of its concept but also because it beautifully incorporates all the three styles of Madhubani art— bharni…

Editorial

EDITORIAL

That little nip in the air still freshens up the soul as you step outside this February. We welcome the coming of spring with a new zest as new possibilities are no more a word out of a work of…

News

NEWS

Bharat Ratna Sachin Tendulkar Studio Art is screening works on master blaster Sachin Tendulkar by Gurgaon based famous artist Sanjay Mehta. On the occasion of Sachin Tendulkar’s 200th Special Test series dedicated to him, Creative Voiz has organized a special…

Cover Story

COVER STORY

K.G. Subramanyan: A Life Fully Lived Sandhya Bordewekar Sandhya Bordewekar in conversation with Prof. K G Subramanyan about his life as a student in Santiniketan. Sandhya Bordewekar: You went to Santiniketan in 1944, aged 20. Santiniketan was a long, long…

Essay

ESSAY

Indian Art School Practices and Dissolving of ‘Construed Will’ H. A. Anil Kumar Art education in the Indian context is an unresolved issue. It is the construed will or the lack of it to address it which is more pedagogically…

Feature

FEATURE

Once Upon a Time: The Wonder Year s Yasra Daud Khoker As we grow older, we lose the ability to wonder. Big words and big things overshadow the little things that once seemed so big. Logic takes over solutions wrung…

Feature

FEATURE

Alternative Art : Functional art-craftwork by artists Sandhya Bordewekar Exploring the concepts of a ‘product laboratory’ through innovative platforms like 0265, bridging the artwork versus craftwork divide in contemporary or traditional realms, Sandhya Bordewekar analyzes the nurturing kinship between the…

Feature

FEATURE

The real, the palpable and the unseen in Kavita Jaiswal’s Compositions Mariam Karim There is a seeking and evocative quality in Kavita’s compositions which is an essential component of the mind of the contemporary abstract artist. It comes forward more…

Feature

FEATURE

The print making idiom , route and milieu of Ajit Seal Dr.Meghali Goswami “I believe that art is a creative bridge between our imaginative vision, which tends to recreate the primal human condition, and our current artistic sensibility, which responds…

Report

REPORT

A Site Where Art Awakes 3rd Regional Art Workshop’ 2014 at Silchar, Assam Abhibrata Chakrabarty The green meadow of a remote village of Choto Dudh Patil in Silchar was awash in colour on the evening of 15th January of 2014….

Photo Feature

PHOTO FEATURE

WALKING in HAUZ KHAS Saba Hasan The Hauz Khas madarsa and its lake have been adopted by me as artistic inspiration, a challenge, a form of history and a symbol, actually, an entire philosophical microcosm, right from the start. I…

Cinema

CINEMA

SUCHITRA SEN: The Unmatc hable Golde n Diva of India n Silver Screen Santanu Ganguly The kind of respect and fan following Suchitra Sen got from the people of Bengal, I doubt any other actress in India can match it….

Matters of heArt

Matters of heArt

Matters of heArt with Paramjot Walia Samar Jodha You exhibited independently at Venice, this time, in contrast to 2011 when you were part of a larger Indian presentation. How was the experience different? My work was part of a video…

Review

REVIEW

Retelling a story teller Art & Deal Correspondent The India Art Fair 2014 was busy, engaging and varied. It is always a challenge for the viewer to be able to concentrate and see art works in all this celebratory chaos….

Review

REVIEW

POETICS OF KABIR IN STONE AND BRICK Uma Nair At the Habitat Centre this January was a brilliant exhibition created in stone and brick that had a very queer title. ‘ Often I miss You’ didn’t quite seem to fit…

Review

REVIEW

Emptiness of existence Paramjot Walia A solemn empty chair in a collage of 24 paintings where the color gradient could either depict the 24 hours of a day or the bright colors could be a metaphor of happy times, refuses…

Review

REVIEW

AN ODE TO THE GODDESS OF MUSIC Uma Nair It isn’t often that one would find an exhibition at the National Museum which explores the marriage of technology and culture. But the strains of Beethoven’s composition from a hollow piano…

Review

REVIEW

ZARINA HASHMI: OF PAPER’S MATERIALITY Uma Nair The very term “Folding House” became a stimulus for creativity last week at the opening of Zarina Hashmi who is considered a citizen of the world; and on a wall of the staircase…

Editorial

EDITORIAL

Happy New Year! By the time you have this issue of Art and Deal in your hand, Delhi will have a new government led by the Aam Aadmi Party leader, Arvind Keijriwal. A ‘Broom stick’ is the symbol of this…

News

NEWS

Doob Gaya Hum…Duba Diya Humne Alliance Francaise D’Ahmedabad presents a solo show of photography by renowned photographer Dr. Deepak John Mathew. The show is titled ‘Doob Gaya Hum…Duba Diya Humne’ which deals with the subject of water. Shot in Tehri…

Cover Story

COVER STORY

THE ‘FAIR-Y’ QUEEN JOHNY ML When Neha Kirpal came back to India from London in 2007, she had a little money in her pocket and a bigger dream in mind. Driven by a vision to set up India’s first international…

Cover Story

COVER STORY

YES TO ART AND CULTURE JOHNY ML The incredible success of the partnership of Yes Bank and India Art Fair’s last year’s edition, has enticed and tingled the curiosity of the otherwise lethargic art market. This year, with new gusto…

India Art Festival 2013

COVER STORY

ART PROJECTS : INDIA ART FAIR – 2014 The project that Riyas Komu has proposed will involve creating a Collector’s room. A space displaying political works of arts, which include Komu’s works as well as political works from his collection…

Cover Story

COVER STORY

DELHI’S PRIDE AND MUMBAI’SENVY : INDIA ART FAIR PARAMJOT WALIA The 6th Edition of the India Art Fair is one unique venue for the galleries to flaunt their inventor, and also it is a cauldron of a variety of ideas….

Cover Story

COVER STORY

MATTERS OF THE FAITHFUL HEART SUSHMA SABNIS While Mumbai’s India Art Festival 2013 saw the participation of several galleries from the country, two elegant art galleries from Mumbai, Sakshi Gallery and Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke have chosen to specifically focus…

Interview

INTERVIEW

UP AGAINST THE WALL WASWO X. WASWO The “Pondy Art Wall” has made it through its first engaging year with a mixture of ups and downs. Waswo X. Waswo discusses the problematics of such public art projects with its organizer…

Essay

ESSAY

RAQIB SHAW : PARADISE LOST RENUKA SAWHNEY Walking through Raqib Shaw’s exhibition, Paradise Lost at the Pace gallery in New York, is to conceptually weave through John Milton’s Paradise Lost, through the sylvan frame and into the aftermath. The 60…