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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…
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Issues of Iconography and Contemporary Indian Art: A Rethink. Let us consider the Contemporary Indian Art before we explore the issues of iconography. Apparent is the expansion of art into areas beyond the perimeter of painting, sculpture and perhaps we…
A PERSPECTIVE FROM THE GALLERY
THE SLOWDOWN IN THE ART MARKET HAS LEFT THE COLLECTORS’ ANXIOUS AND APPREHENSIVE, AS THEY EAGERLY AWAIT THE MARKET TO GAIN MOMENTUM. TO ANALYSE THE DIFFERENT FACTORS THAT HAVE INHERENTLY CONTRIBUTED TO THE STAGNANCY IN ART BUYING AND APPRECIATION, WE…
Art Market
Art’s value is guaranteed by money, which doesn’t mean that without money it has no value, but that money value overrides art value, while appearing to confer it. Both art and criticism have been defeated by money, even though money…
Fragmentary world offered by Photography
Notes on the historiography and comprehensively Fragmentary world offered by Photography The historicized methodology of the ‘meeting point’ between the pre-fixed frontal quality of sculpture and the overall appearance of painting is called as photography. So much for the aesthetic…
Instituting Artists’ Collectives:
The Bangalore/Bengaluru experiments with “Solidarity Economies”It often comes as a revelation to art observers, who are searching for an alternative to the commercially driven contemporary art worlds of Mumbai and Delhi, with their imposing art spaces and booming auction houses,…
International
The exhibition ‘Indian Highway’ was brought to Rome at MAXXI Museum from the 22nd Sept 2011 to the 29th Jan 2012 by the Serpentine Gallery, London . This was showcased in London in 2009, has traveled through Oslo and will…
RELEVANCE OF HUSAIN
When time accelerates not only future events hurtle towards us faster, even the events of recent past disappear into oblivion more rapidly. It was only on June 9 last year that Maqbool Fida Husain died in a London hospital far…
