Art & Deal

Monthly Art Magazine in India

Month: May 2015

Editorial

EDITORIAL

The mercury rises as summer settles in comfortably, scorching, proud and unapologetic. We succumb haplessly praying for cool showers and breeze. Art takes recluse in the exotic locales of the city of water & lights as the 56th Venice Biennale…

Cover Story

COVER STORY

Modern Indian Art and the idea of Indigenous Contemporary Tanveer Ajsi Historians of art inform us that until the nineteenth century, the cultural hegemony of the West had not found its feet within the artistic traditions of India. The aesthetic…

Cover Story

COVER STORY

Redeeming Tradition : Velu Viswanathan’s Yantric Interplay Dr. Ashrafi s Bhagat Neo-Tantric art integrated, translated, synthesized or imitated using contemporary materials/vocabulary to assert itself as an autonomous sign. In its deployment within the existing contingencies, it moderated as a modern…

Cover Story

COVER STORY

Tantric Art Dr. Seema Bawa Tantric Art remains one of the most misinterpreted, and even abused, labels amongst contemporary art practice. An art work appropriating Tantric symbols and iconography out of context would not qualify as Tantric Art. As its…

Interview

INTERVIEW

The Visible Forms of Invisible Wonders: Govinda Sah Azad Gerard Houghton Gerard Houghton: Govinda, please tell me about where you come from originally. Govindah Sah: I was born in Rajbiraj, in eastern Nepal, south of Everest and just 12 km….

Interview

INTERVIEW

Indian Connections: Martine Le Coz Lina Vincent Sunish Martine Le Coz is a writer and artist living in Amboise, France. An ardent admirer of Indian spiritual philosophies, she speaks to Lina Vincent Sunish about her engagement with tantra and its…

Interview

INTERVIEW

A Conversation With Rajesh Ram Pranamita Borgohain There’s something enticing as well as peculiar about seeing the hybrid veggie-human forms in artist Rajesh Ram’s art works. They’re tactile, provoking and metaphorically relate food, life and reality. Rajesh’s sculptures are close…

Interview

INTERVIEW

Shanta’s Treasure Trove Sumati Gangopadhyay A recurring touch of nostalgia is seen in Shanta Samant’s sculptures.Interestingly, it traces her journey from early childhood and adolescence to womanhood. Here, we find Shanta displaying a stunning quality of exuberance expressed with playful…

Report

REPORT

Performers At The Sacred Arts A Festival Curated By Teamwork Arts Santanu Ganguly Vocal Rasta has been active for the past few months and was recently seen at the Zee Jaipur Literature Festival and Sounds of Freedom where they performed…

Report

REPORT

Revisiting Deepor Beel Pranamita Borgohain Revisiting Deepor Beel, a travelling workshop under the festival Kala Samanvayaa 2015 was held at Deepor Beel village, Near Guwahati from 13th – 16th January. The workshop was a site specific interdisciplinary art practice where…

Report

REPORT

Goa Photo Festival, 2015 Nikhil Padgaonkar From the 25th of February till the 7th of March, the residents of Panaji are in for a treat. For during this time, the city itself will become a platform for exhibiting some of…

Report

REPORT

3rd Dharamshala International Film Festival (DIFF) Santanu Ganguly The Dharamshala International Film Festival (DIFF) started just three years ago but, within a small span of time, it has become one of India’s most important and most discussed film festivals. In…

Essay

ESSAY

The Formulation Of Iconography In The Paintings Of Raja Ravi Varma Aastha Duggal The iconography in Raja Ravi Varma’s paintings is a paradigm of tactile illusionism, bringing to life the characters of mythological and religious tales, giving them an identity…

Cinema

CINEMA

RupKotha : A Short Film Art & Deal Correspondent Rupkotha shows how, sometimes, some incidents in life effect/hurt us so badly that they weaken us mentally and physically for the time being. In such a state ending one’s life seems…

Photo Feature

PHOTO FEATURE

“The Fabled Hampi” by Ganesh Doddamani Art & Deal Correspondent On The Occasion Of World Heritage Day, Art Spice Gallery At The Metropolitan Hotel & Spa Gifts Presented An Enthralling Exhibition, “The Fabled Hampi” By An Award-Wining Artist, Ganesh Doddamani….

Review

REVIEW

Recent Abstract Executions Of Minakshi Patil [Mumbai] Mrinal Ghosh In her recent paintings, Minakshi Patil experiments with a particular form of abstraction, where she tries to capture an intangible feeling generated out of a very tangible reality that one experiences…

Review

REVIEW

Art and History, finding One Another [Delhi] Art & Deal Correspondent An Indian kaleidoscope – An exhibition bringing together the best of art and history from India 200 years ago by Pran Sabharwal Foundation Exhibition featuring lithographs, wood engraving by…

Review

REVIEW

Museum of Unknown Memories [DELHI ] Premjish Achari Two significant events of the 1980s form an important memory in Manish Pushkale’s life and his artistic trajectory. The 1982 foundation of Bharat Bhavan and the 1984 tragic Bhopal Gas Tragedy has…

Review

REVIEW

Construing Exhibition Spaces A structure re defines everything in and around it. [Bangalore] Sandhya Annaiah Art practice in Bangalore is mostly noted for having established itself outside of the institutional spaces (like galleries, museums, art colleges etc.) and creating a…

Book Review

BOOK REVIEW

Daniells’work unearthed: A boon To Art Lovers, Historians Santanu Ganguly Daniells’ India: Views from the Eighteenth Century Introduction: B.N. Goswamy ISBN: 978-93-81523-63-6 Size: 425×298 mm, Illustrations: 95, Hardback with dust jacket Price: Rs 6,000/-, Pages: 204 Thomas Daniell and his…

Book Review

BOOK REVIEW

Nicholas Roerich/Ashok Dilwali: Inspired By The Himalayas Santanu Ganguly Nicholas Roerich/Ashok Dilwali: Inspired bythe Himalayas Publisher: Niyogi Books Photographs: 125, Pages: 174, Size: 425×298mm, Price: Rs 3,000/-, HB Nicholas Roerich (October 9, 1874 – December 13, 1947) was a Russian…

Book Review

BOOK REVIEW

Nobody’s Art –Everybody’s Art Lina Vincent Sunish To see art in a mutilated wall with plaster falling off, or a paan-blotch is a stretch. It is something that anyone living in India for long enough would question, surrounded as we…