Art & Deal

Monthly Art Magazine in India

Month: October 2016

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…

Snippets

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…

Feature

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,…