REMEMBER ME- Sheersha Mukherjee
It is a series of work on children and I have chosen Linocut as the medium. This series is dedicated to all those children who went missing during the second world war and the Holocaust. A war in itself is…
Auschwitz: Site as history, Eye as a witness- Shruti Mukherjee
War has always been devastating, irrespective of the time period in history, whenever it has happened. From mythology to the beginning of our civilisation, to the modern day ‘civilised’ man, it has been a “tool” to kill, abuse power, destroy,…
Looking back at localities: Field notes on the collective as a process of dialogical unlearning-Anga Art Collective
Located in the tri-junction of East Asia, Southeast Asia, and South Asia, the peripheral region called ‘Northeast India’ is situated between a complex network of rivers, hills, and forests. Endless hills turn into flat fields, fields turn into forests, forests…
HOMAGE TO SOMNATH HORE- Nikhileswar Baruah
Digging the grave I bring outfossils of my past life and see my spine bentby two hundred years of slavery in my chest the smell of damp soilin my fist the remnantof a broken plough digging the grave I bring…
HOMAGE TO SOMNATH HORE-Mohammad Sabanneh, Palestine
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TRAVELLING THROUGH BASTAR TO RECLAIM DEMOCRACY AND FREEDOM- Anupam Roy
In the backdrop of massive state repression – as witnessed in murders, rapes, illegal deten-tions and custodial tortures – that defines Bastar today, a spirited ‘August Kranti- Tiranga Padyatra’ was organized in Bastar this August. Various political parties and groups…
A PROPAGANDIST’S STATEMENT -Anupam Roy
The idea of the space between what was possible before and what could be possible later; after a crisis or a major historical event, is related to what I consider the appropriate territory for my art practice. A ‘crisis’ can…
My experience as an artist at Haryana’s Tikri border-Debanjan Roy
I took the Rajdhani express from Sealdah Station for Delhi on 14th January to join the farmers’ movement. Immediately after reaching Delhi the next day, I straightway went to the Head office of the All India Kissan Sabha (AIKS). I…
Needling the ‘WOUND’: Dilara Begum Jolly- Professor Lala Rukh Selim, Bangladesh
Dilara Begum Jolly has addressed pain and injustice in her work. She has sifted through the stream of contemporary events to focus on the pain and violence inflicted on the weak by the strong, the inconsistencies and insensitivity that is…
Layered monologue and the game of throne: Dhali Al Mamoon- MUSTAFA ZAMAN, Bangladesh
Time, Coincidence and History, in the main, is a space for crystallizing the vestiges of colonial and postcolonial history covering in its broad sweep the legacies of social-political conflicts, religious parochialism that places identity over piety, and, finally, the body…
HOMAGE TO SOMNATH HORE-Walter D’Souza
Walter D’Souza, Lotus Soup For The Lions, 2019, Woodcut,
10.5 x 11.5 inches, Image Courtesy: The Artis
Urgent Saaru: Gauri Lankesh The Performance- Pushpamala N
Pushpamala, dressed as Mother India in an elaborate costume popularised in Indian mythological films and television, with two extra papier- mache arms and wearing a mask, walks in a stately manner to the cooking area followed by Manasa dressed in…
HOMAGE TO SOMNATH HORE-Sudhir Patwardhan
I have always been drawn to the work of Somnath Da and have been inspired by the deep empathyhe had for the downtrodden. This empathy has guided me over the years, as I have moved fromdrawing and painting beggars in…
Somnath Hore I Knew-Gulam mohammed Sheikh
Thinking of Somnath Hore my memory goes back to the early years of the decade of 1960 when he was teaching at the art department of the Delhi Polytechnic. I must have met him in 1962 when his coloured etching…
Tebhagar diary by Somnath Hore – Sanjoy Kumar Mallik
Defined as a “form of autobiographical writing”, implying thereby that it is primarily written “for the writer’s use alone” as distinct from writing done for publication, the diary is usually viewed as a document that is intensely personal, and therefore…
Art of Compassion and Commitment: An Appraisal of Kathe Kollwitz and Somnath Hore’s creative World- Abul Monsur
As artist Somnath Hore’s centenary date passes-by rather solemnly, any endeavour to assess his artistic accomplishments has to be apprehended as an act of momentous volume. Somnath Hore (1921-2006), despite his long career as a practicing artist, remains somewhat a…
SOMNATH HORE – An Interview from 1985 And Reflections on His Life and Work – Charles Stroh
I had the distinct privilege of meeting and interviewing Somnath Hore at his home in Santiniketan in April of 1985 and this paper will present a few memories about that experience. After a brief introduction, I will share excerpts from…
Somnath Hore: A Life of an Artist Beyond the Agitprop- Nirmalendu Das
Prologue Somnath Hore was my teacher, my guide for the Cultural scholarship and my PhD supervisor. We had a cordial relationship; as a teacher and a student often have but more significantly, we were friends as well. During my study…
Somnath Hore- A principled man and an unceremonial artist – Amit Mukhopadhya
Principles of the Future of Art Can art be the future of man? The question can be put in another way: What are the principles of art of the future? The secret of visual dialectics of any engaged art lies…
VAN GOGH MASTERPIECE CHAMPS PRÈS DES ALPILLES TO LEAD CHRISTIE’S NEW YORK 20TH CENTURY EVENING SALE
New York –Christie’s is pleased to announce Vincent van Gogh’s Champs près des Alpilles, 1889 (estimate on request; region of $45,000,000) as a leading highlight of the 20th Century Art Evening Sale taking place this May at Rockefeller Center in New York City. This rare…
