Upaj: A Visual Feast-Jyoti A Kathpalia
There’s The Last Supper, Leonardo da Vinci’s artistic representation of the most iconic meal in the history of humankind. More than five centuries later is Anjolie Ela Menon’s mural Upaj, the story of every Indian supper – actually every meal…
Strange Attractors – Uma Prakash
Bharti Kher’s incredible sculpture exhibition titled Stange Attractors, presented by Nature Morte, consisted of nostalgic, mysterious and melancholic works, boldly unfolding a visual narrative. Kher’s employs a wide range of materials to bewilder, mesmerize and repel. The artist’s unique visual…
Studio Kishangarh- Path of Grace – Visited by Gaurav Kumar
“ With Studio Kishangarh my endeavour has been to not just create contemporary miniatures, but also develop the art in a sustainable, natural manner.” – Princess Vaishnavi Kumari Kishangarh, located off the Jaipur highway on a fast-lane expressway, is a…
Intervening the City: An Epistemological Montage- Saraswathy K Bhattathir
Review of UNRULY SYNTAX, a solo show by Ravi Kumar Kashi at Gallery Sumukha, Bangalore. (4th December 2021 to 22nd Jan 2022 Artist Ravi Kumar Kashi holds a BFA in Painting from Chitrakala Parishath, Bangalore, MFA in Print Making from…
Looking at Matsya—35 mm: Sanjeet Chowdhury-Ranu Roychoudhuri
Photographer-collector-film-maker Sanjeet Chowdhury’s photoessay title Matsya—35 mm is crafted out of years of engagement with fish culture in the port-cities of Calcutta (Kolkata) and Bombay (Mumbai). For at least two decades, Sanjeet looked at fish in their diverse forms as…
Night Will Fall an interview with Christian Boltanski – Rajesh Punj
Speaking from his home in Paris, at a moment when it was impossible to meet in person, this was possibly one of, if not the last, major interview given by Christian Liberté Boltanski, before his untimely death in the summer…
View Finders: Henri Cartier- Bresson and Parmanand Dalwadi-Dr. Seema Bhalla
The advent of the camera in the 1840s revolutionised not only the way people viewed the world and their lives but it also altered the world of visual art and steered it towards the direction that impacted it immensely. All…
RAJESH DEB’s Neverland Post Office-Observed by Gaurav Kumar
Rajesh Deb (1979, Dharmanagar, Tripura) is an artist who sees political overtones in everyday life. He exposes the social and political concerns of his time and constructs a satirical universe that runs concurrently with reality. By conjuring up disturbing pictures,…
Birds of Passage: Sunanda Khajuria-Kainaat Fatima
Art has always been an expression of inner emotions, intuitions, and aspirations to a majority of people. It has always been a method of expressing one’s perspective on the world, which is an extension of the personality for many. On…
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JULY - AUGUST, 2022