Art & Deal

Monthly Art Magazine in India

Year: 2016

Editorial

EDITORIAL

It is the season of festivity, the Christmas spirit engulfs despite our struggles with (demonetisation) getting patient enduring long queues, which occasionally proves redundant. As we prepare to welcome the New Year we also approach our 100th issue set for…

Snippets

SNIPPETS

SNIPPETS MADHUSUDHANAN | PENAL COLONY Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi Vadehra Art Gallery is delighted to present the solo exhibition of artist and filmmaker Madhusudhanan titled Penal Colony. Following his participation at the Kochi Muziris Biennale 2014 and India Art…

Cover Story

COVER STORY

Serendipity Arts Festival Goa- A Curtain Raiser Lina Vincent Sunish Goa, a place that has often been just a backdrop for events because of its beaches, sunny tempers, parties and good food, an ideal work-cum-holiday getaway. What is it about…

Cover Story

COVER STORY

Serendipity Arts Festival Goa 2016: A Selection of Projects Exhibitions & Performances Serendipity Arts Festival will be a multi-disciplinary arts event set over a period of nine days in Panaji, Goa. Curated by a panel of leading experts from across…

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COVER STORY

Colombo In Colombo: Jean-Francois Bocle Rajesh Punj Seeing space as “public and private, space as protest and contestation, space as tangible and imagined, as community, memory and legacy, space as architectural, performative, temporal, spiritual and rhythmic, space as liminal and…

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COVER STORY

Of Public Fairs And The Art Fest In Vadodara Aparna Roy Baliga The great purpose of the city is to permit, indeed to encourage and incite, the greatest number of meetings, encounters, challenges, between all persons, classes and groups, providing…

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COVER STORY

Demystifying Biennale! Pune Biennale 2017: 3rd Edition Dr. Kiran Shinde As such now, the Pune Biennale has emerged as an institution to create a world-wide cultural identity for the home-city and act as a vehicle for the development of the…

Feature

FEATURE

Individual Resistance to Institutional Gaze: Art Fairs, Kala Melas, Dasara Shows and the Soliloquy of K. Venkatappa H. A. Anil KUmar The tradition and history of Indian Art Fairs, Art Melas, Kala Godas and Chitrasanthes (fairs) are not comfortable in…

Photo Feature

PHOTO FEATURE

Fisherman and the Sea: Photographic Series of Subodh Kerkar 2008 to Present Lina Vincent Sunish As a medical doctor in a previous avatar, practicing a stone’s throw from the sea-shore, Subodh Kerkar had the opportunity to get to know the…

Editorial

EDITORIAL

November is an ideal month in the city (of Delhi) the weather is sympathetic and the lights seem to shine brighter in the evenings. The demonetisation by the Prime Minister earlier this month left none unaffected. We hope it brings…

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SNIPPETS

Date: Till 31 December, 2016 Venue: Dhoomimal Gallery, G-42, Connaught Circus, New Delhi-110001, T: + 91 11 41516056 E: info@dhoomimalgallery.com W: www.dhoomimalgallery.com/ SERENDIPITY ARTS FESTIVAL, GOA Serendipity Arts Trust Serendipity Arts Trust, a Munjal initiative for the promotion of creativity…

Cover Story

COVER STORY

Barren Red: Solo Exhibit By Puneet Kaushik Myna Mukherjee Contemporary artist Puneet Kaushik’s new solo ‘Barren Red’ evokes a certain coming of age nostalgia. Having keenly followed his substantive body of abstract and plurally textural work over the years, one…

Interview

INTERVIEW

Baroque- An Interview With Raqib Shaw Rajesh Punj Entering Raqib Shaw’s studio via a disheveled facade front into a brilliantly baroque styled garden, one relinquishes the ugly trappings of the suburban swell of fast food restaurants and mobile phone retailers…

Feature

FEATURE

Magical Realism Of A. Ramachandran Uma Nair Ramachandran at NGMA Bangalore is to be part of a chapter in the life of a Modern Master who has one eye on Renaissance and another on the power of experience. Defined by…

Feature

FEATURE

Tribal Art: An Iconic Offer at Lalit Kala Akademi Subhra Mazumdar Tribal Art displays at major galleries by and large, have been sporadic attempts to gather together a group of practitioners, with familial bonds, provide them a space and thereafter,…

Essay

ESSAY

Artistic Inheritance Dr. Seema Bhalla Art is not simply works of art; it is the spirit that knows beauty, that has music in its soul and the colour of sunset in its handkerchief, that can dance on a flaming world…

Essay

ESSAY

The Black Pottery of Nizamabad Anshu Ahuja the exquisite craft of Black pottery of Nizamabad at the Museum of Indian Terracotta in Sanskriti Kala Kendra, Delhi. Thereupon, I planned a visit to this pottery cluster in Azamgarh district of Uttarpradesh….

Report

REPORT

The Indywood Film Carnival Hema Iyer Ramani Hyderabad is the perfect setting for any film festival because the Ramoji Film city has been designed to provide the ambience for not only film shoots, but also to host mega-scale events. The…

Editorial

EDITORIAL

Diwali is here. Festivities continue to envelope the city as sidewalks are covered with bright decorative lights and vendors selling colourful diyas, earthen lamps and idols all over the city. There is anticipation in the air as the winter prepares…

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SNIPPETS

Praneet Soi : For and Against Narrative Vadehra Art Gallery For and Against Narrative emerges from a conversation the artist posits between the constructed image and the gestural. Having immersed himself for years in working with media imagery, he shifts…

Cover Story

COVER STORY

All That Remains: AN Interview With Dayanita Singh Rajesh punj An opportunity to meet with the Indian photographer Dayanita Singh has become more improbable now that she exhibits more prolifically than when we first met in late 2008. As was…

Feature

FEATURE

Shampa Sircar Das’Devi Uma Nair The colours are juxtaposed to construct a range of hues that sedate and inspire a quiet meditative mood. And as the work progresses it is becomes more aesthetic and less of an idea, and the…

Feature

FEATURE

Crafting Creative Intricaies With Time And Space: Sumakshi Singh Dr. Ashrafi S. Bhagat She is a designer who crafts her painted, embroidered or sculpted artistry with dexterous skill and acute perception. Her crafted creations of forms and objects have saliency…

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FEATURE

Traversing Inhabitants Works By Fawad Tamkanat And Nipun Kumar Palak Dubey The works by Fawad Tamkanat and Nipun Kumar clubbed together into a showtitled, ‘Crosscurrents’ were recently on display at Gallery Space, Hyderabad from July through August. The works by…

Profile

PROFILE

Magic of colours, poetry of gestures:Sen Shombit Art & Deal Correspondent Darkness to light: Landing in Kolkata from Shohidnogor 50kms away was like entering a foreign country. I’d leave my mud-bamboo home in a squatted refugee camp without electricity, potable…

Interview

INTERVIEW

Kashi Art Residency Tanya Abraham For the four artists who recently completed the 2016 Kashi Art Residency in Kochi based on the concept of ‘material culture’, the outcome from the exchange of thought and the depiction of skill has been…

Essay

ESSAY

Heritage Conservation- The Church Of Santa Monica Goa: A Case Study Lina Vincent Sunish The Museum management, aware of the deteriorating condition of the 450 year old chapel due to climate conditions and neglect, worked on creating a project proposal…

Report

REPORT

A Monthly Feature On Art Events in Chennai V.V. Ramani Meera – The Soul Divine Meera the poet princess is an epitome of bhakti and total surrender, and her life story that is so strongly embedded in the minds of…

Review

REVIEW

Giving Time to Time: Film pieces by Manon De Boer Preeti Kathuria Born in 1966 in Kodaikanal, India, Manon De Boer gained her professional art education in Rotterdam and is currently based in Brussels. Working primarily in photographs and films,…

Editorial

EDITORIAL

Humankind endeavours hard to evolve and cope with global warming, to accept that September is a really warm month, in Delhi. Change although is inevitable. It constitutes the fabric of existence, what was, cannot remain, forever. We trace the changes…

Snippets

SNIPPETS

A Peine J’Ouvre Les Yeux Director : Leyla Bouzid Alliance Francaise de Delhi Farah has just graduated, and her family can already picture her as a future doctor. She, at the same time, doesn’t have the same idea. She sings…

Cover Story

COVER STORY

Evolution of Art in bengal and Kolkata Partha Mukherjee Bengal soaked in different cultures and thereby grew as an important centre for art and culture in the eastern part of the country. While the ‘Caterpillar’ metamorphosed into a ‘Butterfly, it…

Cover Story

COVER STORY

Nineteenth Century Art of Bengal Amit Mukhopadhyay Opening an exhibition of historic prints in 1954, the famous historian Jadunath Sarkar said, “British role in India did inspire pictorial art of a high order, and the first full century of their…

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COVER STORY

East is East, and West is West and when the Twain meet Dr. Seema Bhalla “East is East, and West is West, and never the Twain shall meet”, the opening lines from “The Ballad of East and West”, written by…