Art & Deal

Monthly Art Magazine in India

Year: 2015

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REVIEW

A gamut of connotations, expression of personal ideologies, skilful practise, set of possibilities, a dream of freedom and a common platform, the exhibition titled ‘WHATS NOT TO LIKE? Art: From Th en and Now’ at India International Centre, from 9th…

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REVIEW

Kota Neelima, a journalist/author/artist, elucidates her journey through the times as an author of three books, a patron of International Relations started off with her artistic journey from ArpanaCaur’s Academy of Fine Arts and Literature, New Delhi. She has had…

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INTERNATIONAL

Yury Tkachenko is a very well known and honored artist of Russia. He is an international sculptor, curator, Professor of Fine Arts, and Director of Sculpture Park Legend. So far, he has participated in more than 50 international sculpture symposiums,…

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REPORT

AMAR KUTIR : THE MANIFESTATION OF LEATHER ART…: “There is yet another man in me, not the physical, but the personal man; which has its likes and dislikes, and wants to find something to fulfil its needs of love. This…

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EASSAY

KISHANGARH PAINTINGS : The tradition of the miniature paintings in Rajasthan is very rich in its form, texture, colors and storytelling. The Kishangarh School of miniature Rajasthani Painting is one of the richest and popular forms. Kishangarh is a picturesque…

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ESSAY

A FUSION OF ARCHITECTURAL STYLES- ISLAMNAGAR FORT : The Indian Hindu lawgiver Manu describes the utility of the Forts as, “a warrior protected by the fort can fight with hundred enemy soldiers and a force of one hundred fighting from…

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INTERVIEW

Lita Cabellut (b.1961, Barcelona) is a famous contemporary master of portrait art, who has a very distinctive repertoire of works. Inspired by the Dutch Masters and famous philosophers of the Golden Age, her life-size portraits were recently shown at the…

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LISTINGS

DHOOMIMAL ART GALLERY Dhoomimal Art Gallery Ravi Jain Annual Exhibition 2015 Exhibition as on : 29 September -30 October, 2015 Dhoomimal Art Gallery,42, Connaught Circus, New Delhi- 110001

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COVER STORY

The name Maqbool Fida Husain has become almost synonymous with contemporary Indian art, and deservedly so, for no single artist has popularized Indian art, within the country or internationally, as Husain has done. His endless quest for his cultural roots,…

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EDITORIAL

“Husain’s paintings are profound, but they are never forbiddingly intellectual or cerebral. Th ey have a strong emotional undercurrent, an engaging warmth, an immediate visual appeal, and they are passionately humanistic.”- Ebrahim Alkazi Art & Deal magazine celebrates the birth…

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EDITORIAL

Popular by the name, ‘Missile man of India’, APJ Abdul Kalam, former President, an eminent aero-space scientist and to top it all a percipient visionary departed from us in the month of July. He will be remembered for his unprecedented…

Snippets

SNIPPETS

NORTH “Phenomenology of Perception” An exhibition of work by artists Nurjahan Akhlaq (b. 1979, Pakistan), Parul Gupta (b. 1980, India) and Yasmin Jahan Nupur (b. 1979, Bangladesh) 5 August- 15 September, 2015 Exhibit 320 will open the upcoming season beginning…

Listings

LISTINGS

NORTH Kamani Auditorium Mere Piya Gaye Rangoon Play Duration : 2 hours 5 mins Saturday, 15 August,2015, 07:30 PM Sunday 16 August, 2015 4:00 PM Sun 16 August, 07:30 PM

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COVERSTORY

Lands of Reverie and Dreams Sumati Gangopadhyay What one finds in most of Nilima’s works is that there is a pronounced undercurrent of lyricism which connects these works with a joyous riot of colours, all magnificently held in an aura…

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ESSAY

Tryst of Contemporary with Tradition Seema Bhalla Art,essentially, is the product of its times and surroundings, assimilating in its fold the contemporary circumstances. To this, as an unwritten rule, Indian Art is not an exception. The highly sophisticated form of…

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ESSAY

The Enigma of THE Bhojpur Temple Open roofed sanctum or a disproportionate Temple – historical riddle Apurva Sinha The Paramara dynasty, like the other Rajput dynasties, originated from the ‘Agnikunda’, and ruled for almost four centuries over the region north…

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Santiniketan architecture in the context of the colonial and the national: A discussion on few ornamentations Aparna Roy Baliga Nationalism in India differed from European nationalism because the former was born out of a struggle with the latter. An external…

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SHIFTING PARADI GM: Looking at the Anxious Indian Visual H.A. Anil Kumar One should be ‘watch’ful about seeing; and more so about how it is ‘getting’ altered, because, if it is (as and when) relocated, there must be a reason…

Profile

PROFILE

Neeraj Goswami Santanu Ganguly The art of Neeraj Goswami reflects the state of the art in India as it grew over the last fifty years. Born in Patna, in 1964, he grew up in Delhi since the age of eight,…

Report

REPORT

A Sneak peak to the Art Deal Auction House- Summer Auction Apurva sinha Art is an exemplary medium to express intricate socio-cultural foundations. It is an apt creation of imageries portraying the struggle of many novel civilizations, and their amalgamations….

Interview

INTERVIEW

Trigger Happy: An interview with Sindika Dokolo Rajesh Punj Collector Sindika Dokolo sits with London based art critic Rajesh Punj in Porto; for a conversation about African art and ideals.’ As an orator and ambassador for contemporary African art, Sindika…

Feature

FEATURE

Musings On Womahood Lina Vincent Sunish The BBC recently produced a video that morphed 50 female portraits from the history of western art. ‘Changing Faces: 500 years of women’ showed portraits in chronological order, from Russian icon painting to Renaissance…

Review

REVIEW

“Story Teller: Stories Told & Retold” An intermingling of folk and urban tradition, narratives & art [Lisbon] Apurva Sinha On May 28, 2015, The Gallery Art Lounge, at Rua António Enes 9c in Lisbon, very close to Saldanha, organized an…

Editorial

EDITORIAL

Pleasant mornings with a temperature settling four notches below the season’s average at 23.3 degrees Celsius in Delhi tell us that monsoon has arrived just in time, as a blessing for all. This issue covers a grand event which was…

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COVER STORY

409 Ramkinkars: Recreation of a lost world by Vivan Sundaram Anshita Arora The Sculptural installation from 409 Ramkinkar’s, put together by Vivan Sundaram, is an eloquent fusion of theatre, performance art, and installation. It has proven to be a visual…

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ESSAY

Making an Inclusive Mountain Project 365 and the documentation of Tiruvannamalai Waswo X. Waswo Indeed, the not-too-distant peak is circled by a ring of clouds. There is something uncanny about it. And then, within moments, the nebulous halo vanishes like…

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Sacred landscape of Ladakh in the art of Nicholas Roerich Vladimir Zaitsev Ladakh is one of the most unique places in our planet, situated on the high plateau of Western Himalayas, this barren land for centuries was known as a…

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ESSAY

Dasavatara: Incarnation, evolution and refinement of Dharma Apurva Sinha “For the protection of the good, the destruction of the evil-doer and for the establishment of dharma, I come into being from age to age” (Bhagvada Gita 4.8) The ancient scriptures…

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Reality Check how do we understand dignity of labor in India for artists Clyde D’Mello There are times we always think that we could have done something better when we were young (for example an education), but age and dignity…

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REPORT

Art Education in the Age of Digital Reproduction H.A. Anil Kumar The main question with majority of Indian art education, today, excepting the genuinely renowned ones is whether to accept it as an irreversibly failed institution or a construct which…

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REPORT

Warring Bodies Looking into the nature of Performance praxis in Bangalore and its silent quirk against Text R. Dhanya To identify the aspirations and the outcome of the Bangalore performance enterprise, I would like to open a discourse on the…

Feature

FEATURE

Bodies without garments and robe s of wisdom: The female bodies as imagined in Arpana Caur’s paintings Aparna Roy Baliga “This body that you are fussing over, This body that you’re dolling up, This body that you’re wearing to the…

Obituary

OBITUARY

We Mourn the loss of an artist who created the Rock Garden of Chandigarh, a visionary landscape of sculpture and architecture NEK CHAND SAINI (15 DECEMBERr 1924 – 12 JUNE 2015) Art & Deal Correspondent Nek Chand Saini was born…