Karin Kneffel-Museum Küppersmühle, Duisburg-Phainomenon by Rajesh Punj
When you look at a painting are you facing the world or with your back to it, and by choosing one reality over another, is it that what is in front of you offers a greater sense of the real?…
An Honest Man. An Unknown Diogenes by Michaelina Wautier by Jahel Sanzsalazar
*In memory of Matías Díaz Padrón As women painters are being given greater attention, of the old masters Michaelina Wautier (Mons, 1604 – Brussels, 1689) appears to have captivated critics, collectors, and institutions alike. An exceptional painter of 17th-century Flemish…
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Manal AlDowayan- Battle Cry By Jahel Sanzsalazar Joost van den Vondel, a 17th-century Dutch playwright and poet, insisted “One woman is stronger than a thousand men”, and the Saudi artist Manal AlDowayan embodies it with eloquence and effectiveness. A spirited artist…
Enchanting pathways by Sumati Gangopadhyay
Shanta’s bronze sculptures, exquisite and majestic, capture the quintessence of femininity. Her artistic journey traces the intricate path from the innocence of childhood to the wisdom of womanhood. With a profound fascination for the female persona, she embarks on a…
Tuwaiq Sculpture 2023, Saudi Women Artists, Rajaa Alshafae
This is the fourth edition of what has become central to the Riyadh Arts calendar in Riyadh and Saudi Arabia, The Tuwaiq Sculpture Symposium rewards its artists, selected from an open call, with a tenacity that serves them, as they…
Oscar Kokoschka, Guggenheim Bilbao Dieter Buchhart, Anna Karina Hofbauer Oberwildling by Rajesh Punj
Closing in on a hundred when he died in February 1980, Austrian artist Oscar Kokoschka’s oeuvre appears to pulsate with an increasing nervosity that riddled much of his life; as a teenager, moving from one makeshift home to another, to…
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Luc Tuymans: Downfall – Rajesh punj To look at and into a painting of Belgian artist luc tuymans is to encounter the visual world as though born of abstraction. of ice-cream coloured textures that serve to illustrate the banality of…
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Samples of ecological art From Italy. In India and elsewhere…. DR. Martina Corgnati Atendency among the Italian cultural heritage specialists, art historians and curators, is such to consider landscape and, more extensively, nature as a part of the cultural heritage…
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Ourselves Alone-an interview with Alex Katz Rajesh Punj Drawing attention to the foibles of fashion, American Alex Katz sees paintings of the modern period as much a reward to his own practice, as the artists of that moment are his…
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Singapore Art Fair, 2014 Art & Deal Correspondent The inaugural Singapore Art Fair was the first one in Asia dedicated to the art of the Middle East, North Africa, South and Southeast Asia (ME.NA.SA). An encouraging success story, that brought…
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CHINESE ART IN BRAZIL: Chinese Contemporary Art after 2000, Curated by Ma Lin and Tereza De Arruda Santanu Ganguly ChinaArteBrazil , curated by art historians Ma Lin and Tereza de Arruda, shows for the first time in Brazil a unique…
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The art of living Torsten Jurell How unaffected by the market see-saw, Jingdezhen, the capital of porcelain, lets Xiao Xue reveal her creative self and makes her work unique, not in terms of the technique, but in terms of her…
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THE METAPHORICAL LAMB THE ART OF WURIGEN Theodore Cantrell Wurigen is one of China’s leading contemporary artists. His works are a reflection of his life experiences of growing up on the grasslands of Mongolia, and his experiences of being part…
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Andrew Renton, Goldsmiths College: an interview Rajesh Punj A&D: When I consider ‘curating’ as a profession, I am always prone to consider several disciplines collectively, ‘critical writing’, ‘facilitator’, ‘exhibition’s organiser’, ‘administrator’, ‘artist liaison’, ‘promoter’, and ‘creator’. Are these curatorial threads…
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Indian Galleries at Art Basel Uma Prakash Due to the prohibitive cost of attending International art fairs, very few Indian galleries participate in art fairs, although, the numbers are increasing every year. However, Art Basel’s thriving market and opportunity for…
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RAM SHERGILL Everything Beautiful Rajesh Punj Immediately after the shoot, Shergill walked the half distance from Treacy’s studio to Isabella Blow’s apartment, let in by Blow herself he recalls she was on the telephone with the American Vogue, and she…
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FAYEZ BARAKAT : Private Passions Rajesh Punj Pressing an association with the fore-fathers of modern painting, French impressionist Claude Monet, American Mark Rothko, Spaniard Joan Miró, Henri Matisse, Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh, among others; Barakat recalls these leading…
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Idol Pursuits – Bharti Kher When given to considering sculpture and public art in the Indian subcontinent, it is impossible not to become aware of one of the current luminaries of contemporary Indian art, Bharti Kher has very quickly come…
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“I am very nostalgic,” Chavan says. “I love the simplicity of old school living, old school life — I’m holding on to this in the face of the speed of modern Mumbai.” – Little Shilpa Rajesh Punj : Where does…
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ONE on one with a renowned performance artist Nikhil chopraArt&Deal: When I consider your performative work I think of your desire to engage very directly with the viewer and draw them out of their comfort zone and into your theatrical…
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MANIA AKBARI – THE DISTILLATION OF REALITYThere is on occasion an opportunity for a conversation that challenges you to the core, a situation that unsettles you as much as it enlightens your imagination, and this was one such occasion. Beginning…
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SHUMON AHMED, HOME LAND Photographer Shumon Ahmed lives and works in Dhaka, Bangladesh; a country plagued by extreme weather conditions but equally resourced by fertile land. Since a boy, Ahmed has watched his mother country become something all its own….
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DOCUMENTA 13 Documenta over the years has always been a refl ective and somewhat grim aff air. Historically the fi rst Documenta in 1955 took place to lift the sprits of Kassel, a German town suff ering from the aft…
