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Sushma Sabnis Enigma of Art Districts Mueller Bhavan, J. J. School of Art, Artist’s Centre, etc. The centre of this zone, the Kala Ghoda area, is flanked on either side by the private galleries and institutions which act as symbiotic…
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Johny ML Lado Sarai : Art District or a Street of Galleries? Analyzing the spatial logistics of Lado Sarai and Hauz Khas, gallerists’ dilemmas and the much lacking community ‘feeling’ required for the evolution of any art district, JohnyML highlights…
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Girish Shahane Riding on an Invisible Black Horse :Colaba Art District Pundole Gallery at Flora Fountain in the north, and Sakshi and Lakeeren at Arthur Bunder Road, the ‘Arab Quarter’ of Colaba in the south, Mumbai’s ‘Art District’ oscillates between…
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The ‘Metro ’Art in Delhi – Paramjot walia & Priyanka Tagore The population of Delhi has been estimated at 1.67 crore and approximately six million vehicles, with 1,200 more added daily. With auto rickshaws on the roads out to fleece…
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Mumbai Locals and the World of Art – Sushma SabnisThe linear tracks move parallel mostly, marrying and divorcing at times like star crossed lovers, while the metal compartments of a train untiringly carry ambitions, dreams, hope, memories, love, livelihoods and…
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‘Train’ing Public to Make a Visual ‘Platform’ for Themselves – H.A. Anil Kumar Around 1000 tickets, costing ten rupees each, were sold during the weekend recently, to watch an ‘art exhibition’ of puppets from various cultures. All the shows of…
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Namma Metro vs. Paris Metropolitan – Franck BarthelemyThe Bangalore metro is the latest addition to city public transport system. It was inaugurated in 2011. The city was then focused on utility and a massive amount of money was spent towards…
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London Tube : A True Platform for Art – Sandhya Bordewekar2013 is being celebrated as the 150th year of the London Underground, popularly known as the Tube because of the round tunnels through which the trains navigate the vast city…
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Vicky Roy: Artist and the Brand Chandan Gomes On many occasions, his work has been labelled as NGO photography. Such a definition, limits the scope of his expression, thus resulting in the artist being secondary to the brand. I strongly…
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Art Education: What No One Told You Yasra Daud Khoker The philosophy and art of Shishir Bhatt forms the adumbration of the emblem of self-education. Making art for over 30 years, and having learned through self-enquiry and exploration, he believes…
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An Inconclusive Autopsy on a Non-existent Corpse Waswo X. Waswo But there are differences of course, and I can dispute my own words. To understand those differences it is good to remember Stieglitz and the Photo-Secession movement he guided in…
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Framing violence, pain and others through the moving images of B.V. Suresh Aparna Roy Baliga Since 2001, B.V. Suresh has started working on videos. His very first work ‘Introspection’ is based on photographic stills from documentaries on the second world…
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Imaging their Subjectivity : Transsexuals and Photo graphy Siddharth Sivakumar After dealing with trans-sexuality from a diachronic perspective, in her Alice at Frederick’s of Hollywood, Mariette situates trans-sexuality in a synchronic time-frame. The image has captured the three representatives of…
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Contextualising the self in multiple traditions –a discussion on the paintings by Poushali Das Aparna Roy Baliga Poushali doesn’t only uses the traditional language but even the medium of tempera.She uses wash technique to get the subtleness required for her…
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Bringing a Macro World into Microcosmic Narratives Sushma Sabnis The breaking down of a system, blindly followed, led by an un-adaptable truth – a single truth or plural truths, depending upon the addressed issues, the choice of right versus wrong…
Art For The Young
Ramachandran’s books for children: A Belated Homecoming Siddharth Sivakumar Speaking about the future of illustrated children’s books in India, some years back, Ramachandran had said, “To discuss the future of children’s picture books in the Indian context is like discussing…
Book Review
ART reinterprets ART Sudha Punshi I found this book a great inspiration for creating and motivating thought, especially on two fronts i.e. the contemporary art scene and the future for art as the author sees it. The chapter on Indian…
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Slaying multiple Goliaths Sushma Sabnis his life, simply to shroud someone else’s intolerance, pettiness and fear. They felt there was more dignity in living a lie than expressing a truth. They even threatened to banish and exile him like M…
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The Chinese Rajesh Punj Zheng’s Buddha in Cage, Wutai Mountain, Shanxi Province, 1998, is more observation than animation, as a large marble statue of Buddha is photographed at the very edge of the precipice, against a thick curtain of fog….
A LETTER FOR YOUNG ARTISTS
The Business man, the Scholar , and the Hermit A Letter to Young Artists Waswo X. Waswo If you choose to eschew money and politics, if you devote yourself single-mindedly to your art, then, unless you were born independently wealthy,…
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BLOOM Roohi Kapoor Roohi Kapoor’s vibrant canvases have that quality that artists most yearn for, the ability to make time stand still. At her most recent exhibition, the titles of Kapoor’s work received almost as much attention as the art—The…
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Iranna’s Sculptures: Silent Cry of the Modern Man Blindness is a pathological condition but it connotes a deeper meaning in his works. The humble posture of the blinded heads lined one after another and the anxiety in their countenance is…
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In Conversation WITH BANAMALI SHARMA Art & Deal: The materials you use for your sculptures are terracotta, not very common today among sculptors. What is the reason behind this? Also it’s one of the ancient materials used for sculpture, especially…
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Folk & Tribal Expressions: H.A.Anil Kumar Benchmark to the challenges in Modernist Perceptions Folk and Tribal Art (FTA) is a term evoked by the impact of Museumisation, which is in turn by and large a colonial habit. When did those…
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WHAT MAKES CONTEMPORARY? : Lina Vincent Sunish The term ‘contemporary art’ should not be the sole domain of urban fine artists, but to be shared with, and extended to all the artists who are producing thoughtful art in the current…
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Kathakari by SidharthI have known Sidharth now for maybe fifteen years. We were first introduced by Manjit Bawa and funnily enough, the reason for engagement then was our common love for food. Three of us love to cook and eat….
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READING THE FILM BALA GANDHARVA – Aparna Roy BaligaBala Gandharva is a Marathi movie directed by Nitin Chandrakant Desai. This film is based on the life and times of the thespian Narayan Sripad Rajhans who was given the name Bala…
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FEAR OF THE ‘ OTHER URBAN’ MUMBAI, MIGRATION AND XENOPHOBIA IN THE REPRESENTATIONAL POLITICS OF KANNADA FILMS: H.A. Anil KumarMumbai: As a Den-set, Villain and City of Travel: Mumbai is popularly known as a city-of-migrants. Often aggressive politics considers it…
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Sanjay Bhattacharya the artist? Yes all of us know him. Sanjay Bhattacharya the poet? Intriguing!!Bengali poetry that fl its and forms the clouds of fantasy, that when recited by the artist himself brings back memories of the famed Uttam Kumar…
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LONGINGS OF THE EARTH UNDERSTANDING THE ARTISTIC PRACTICE OF DHANESHWAR SHAHThrough the nineties, contemporary India and its art have become increasingly urban centric. Locked in this myopia of an urban gaze, there has been a movement away from engaging with…
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Th e first painting of the Assam Toil series by Raj Kumar Mazinder was an acrylic on canvas of the same title, which was done in 2004. I saw this painting much later. Th e fi rst work that had…
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DUET OF SELF AND CIRCUMSTANCEAn examination of art works could do with a look at the nature of the self that creates them. Aft er all self and environment, and self and art are inextricably meshed. In other words, artistic…
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Iconography in Contemporary Times and Contemporary Iconology Iconography is a ‘pointer’ to the relevance of culturally recognized images, contained upon their own self. A sign is an arrow mark to a direction which separates itself from that direction. In this…
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Migrating Iconographies Iconography, as strictly defi ned, refers to the study of all visual symbols and/or the symbols themselves, but in popular usage iconography is nearly impossible to separate from religion and convention. Th e term itself elicits immediate associations…
VOL.18 NO.126 -127
JULY - AUGUST, 2022