Art & Deal

Monthly Art Magazine in India

Year: 2019

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SHIFTING THE PARADIGM: Amalgamation of Ecology and Art in ASSAM Abhilasha Pandey The desire to give a visual form to personal feelings, communal implication, economic circumstances, spiritual dogmas, aesthetic principles and established agendas were instigated thousands of years ago. Ever…

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WHO AM I? The question always crosses everyone’s mind. Searching for one’s identity, we endeavour to portray ourselves with fashion, religion, caste, community, but at the end we still cannot satisfy ourselves with any one definition of identity. Throughout our…

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A COMPARATIVE BEGINNING Of MODERNISM IN THE ART Of ASSAM: WIth focus on SobhA Brahma Rishav Gandhar Narzary Since the initiation and development of indigenous art historical studies in Indian modern art, mostly in the post-independence scenario, the ramification of…

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Aneesh Sankarankutty’s photographs of wild elephant’s garner Sankarankutty’s photographs of the elephant have won him acclaim. The Palakkad-based photographer has captured the animal in all its varied moods Aneesh Sankarankutty has waited for hours together to photograph an elephant that…

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Sujani Art from Bihar was awarded by UNESCO this year In a diverse country like India, embroidery has always been the expertise of women, both working and homemakers. For every important moment in a woman’s life like wedding, birth, and…

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Painted Almanac   framing time: past, present & future  Anindita Bhattacharya Desmond Lazaro Gulam Mohammed Sheikh Manisha Gera Baswani  Manjunath Kamath  Roshan Chabbria  Ruby Jhunjhunwala  TarshitoStrippoli V Ramesh  Curated by Tunty Chauhan Time and human relationships are crucial elements in the…

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"We often forget that We Are Nature. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we have lost our connection to nature, we’ve lost our connection to ourselves." – Andy Goldsworthy Delhi winters were a sight…

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The Line of Control in Conversation with Jogen Chowdhury – Rajesh Punj How does Jogen meditate on the surface of things, in a way that human skin, the skin of a vegetable and fruit, and the surface of a stone,…

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It is the season of festivals. Durga Puja, Dusshehra , Halloween and the anticipation of Diwali, our festival of Lights. These celebrations are sort of a declaration marking the beginning of winter; this time however, the bright sun shines on…

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Scrutinising A Past, For The Present Interview With Avinash Karn, Contemporary Artist – Lina Vincent Abroad survey of art practices today presents the idea that the only way folk art is legitimised is through a relative positioning with urban fine…

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Pratul Dash: An Artist-Conservationist Striving to Save the future – Ria Sarkar Hailing from the picturesque town of Burla in Western Odisha, Pratul Dash came to Delhi two decades ago and was caught up in the chaos of urban spaces…

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Climate change is real. We see it all around us manifest as floods with excessive (delayed) rains, unnatural weather conditions and damaging hurricanes. As we wait for a long summer to end, we wonder if threats of human extinction as…

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Re-Structuring Romanticism – No child’S Play IndIra Purkayastha ghosh’s neo romantic sculptures on contemporary childhood. Rahul Bhattacharya Contemporary India is witnessing its own tryst with modernity. Unlike in the colonial times or even in the decades post-independence, this version of…

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A studio of their own… IndIan Women Painters and their Spaces Jyoti A Kathpalia As one visits the museums looking with wonder at the masterpieces or searching the web for great painters, the question that comes to the fore is…

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With the onset of monsoon, we see a turnaround in the art space of the city, series of exhibitions at various art centres and galleries has started exhibiting.Amongst the many exhibitions that is happening in city, artist Indira Purkayastha Ghosh…

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EVERYDAY GODS G. RAVINDER REDDY INTERVIEW Rajesh Punj The sixteenth-century Italian soldier and sculptor Benvenuto Cellini asserted that ‘the art of sculpture was at least seven times greater than any other, (because) a statue of true sculpture ought to have…

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I welcome this issue on a happy and sombre note both, I express my deepest condolences to all the three great souls who departed recently, Girish Karnad, Jamil Naqsh, and Manoj Nair. Pleased to feature G. Ravinder Reddy yet again…

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Break Down – Rashid Rana Interview Pakistani artist Rashid Rana’s interdisciplinary approach covers a multitude of mediums, that include video, photography and painting. Employing the very undoing of the photographic medium as the pivotal point from which many of his…

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Few years back, I had gone to see an exhibition at Religare Art Gallery in Saket Delhi, off the artwork presented in the exhibition was of Rashid Rana’s huge digital work. Earlier, I was never fond of any digital work…

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“THE DUTY OF AN ARTIST IS TO DRAW, PAINT, REFLECT AND FORMALIZE, WHATEVER COMES IN THE MIND” KRISHEN KHANNA INTERVIEW RITIKA LALL CHAKRAVARTTY When I’m with a brush, I tend to forget my age, it has the power of transitioning….

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Exquisite collection of Kantha embroidery from eastern India and Indian Subcontinent was displayed at India International Centre IIC last month. The treasurable collection of Kantha show titled ‘Needle Reverence’ was curated by renowned textile historian JasleenDhamija. Kantha collection was a…

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Yet another month completes with the bouquet of art stories, events, and reviews to offer. Every story is a labour of pen, personal travelogue of writers, laced with heart warming conversations and reports from the ground. This month we carved…

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Born for Art Niren Sen Gupta Interview Upasana Bhattacharya It is not every day that one gets to meet a man as illustrious as humble. It is indeed remarkable how an artist who has painted masterpieces over many decades, one…

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“My life has been a broad canvas…” A Satish Gujral Interview Ritika Lall Chakravartty I was basking in the sun, surrounded by the magnetic life size sculptures, while I also walked through the layers of architectural marvel and set my…

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This year Delhi saw the most extended winter and even experienced rain and hail frequently. Though the cold sun and grey sky remain dominant but that didn’t deter the energy, it kept emitting its warmth and painted the city with…

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Baluchar: A Textile Heritage Darshan Shah Baluchar has been synonymous with rich textiles bearing a lineage. Patronized by the elites, the Baluchar evolved creating its own specific genre. Its designs and motifs, its comparison to relevant art forms, the socio-economic…

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Subho Tagore’s Collection of Bauchari Sarees Siddhartha Tagore Subho Tagore’s My Father, Subho Tagore, was an artist, thinker, writer and poet all combined into one. He was one of the founding fathers of cubism in India and had showcased his…

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Happy New Year! From here marks fresh beginnings, and the excitement for the much awaited Art Fair 2019. Yet with us we carry the reminiscences of the year gone by. On 30th December 2018 we witnessed the passing away of…