COMPANY PAINTING VISUAL MEMOIRS OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY INDIA- Gaurav Kumar
A lengthy black tattoo line running from a tribal woman’s nose up to her forehead may be a mark of her caste or tribe. She is carrying a parrot in her hand. The woman is dressed in a white sari…
EXPRESSIONS OF NATURE – Vikash Nand Kumar
“Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations. Treat nature in terms of the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective.” -Paul Cezanne Nature has always fascinated mankind by its sheer beauty, power,…
The Lost Pair – Saraswathy K Bhattathiri
Review on the solo show ‘Is Today Better than Yesterday’ by Surekha Sharada at 1 Shantiroad Studio/Gallery, Bangalore, 17th -24th May 2022. Surekha Sharada is a contemporary visual artist based in Bangalore. Her works have been exhibited in various national…
Rokeya Sultana – Gaurav Kumar
Exhibition of works and launch of monograph at Lalit Kala Akademi, National Academy of Art, Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi, 6th -26th June 2022 This knee-buckling collection of more than forty years of Rokeya Sultana’s art, which is most known for…
Bind/ Bond – Uma Prakash
Threshold Gallery’s latest exhibition Bind/Bound speaks to a wide variety of contemporary concerns from bonding to the necessity of acceptance. It examines the fragility of human existence, and speaks about life and the human spirit on a most profound level….
Inherited Arts Forum at India Art Fair 2022 Exploring the world of indigenous art forms in India-Chhavi Jain
Indian lore is rooted in storytelling, iconography and symbolism that, in grandiose or mundane forms, surrounds us inevitably. From the first known source of communication, take the logosyllabic script and signs found in caves dating back to the Indus Valley…
ZAMIN: HOMELANDS- CENTENARY CELEBRATIONS AT JNAF – Harshada Mane
On the momentous occasion of the 100 years of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (CSMVS) coinciding with the artist S. H. Raza’s centenary, Jehangir Nicholson Art Foundation (JNAF) presented Zamin: Homelands, showcases a thoughtfully curated collection of the artist’s work…
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…
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Painted Almanac framing time: past, present & future Anindita Bhattacharya Desmond Lazaro Gulam Mohammed Sheikh Manisha Gera Baswani Manjunath Kamath Roshan Chabbria Ruby Jhunjhunwala TarshitoStrippoli V Ramesh Curated by Tunty Chauhan Time and human relationships are crucial elements in the…
Review – Delhi
Indigenously fan-tastic Upasana Bhattacharya As a child growing up in the late 80’s, I fondly remember certain quintessential elements from our middle class Bengali household. The standard haathpakha1 from Shantipur was one of them. Each time there was a power…
Review – Delhi
PIDGIN: A Visual Interplay Pidgin: A Visual Interplay took place between the 12th and 14th July at NIV Arts Center in New Delhi, and was the result of a residency by artist Khandakar Ohida. Her thought process leading up to…
Review – Delhi
Queer: Identity, Sexuality & Desire Mansi Dhiman Mandhwani “This exhibition celebrates the un-confinable and unflinching individualism of over 25 artist voices, self identified as QUEER, this exhibition works at the intersections of identity and life experience, genre and process…. shattering…
Review – Mumbai
A Contemporary Approach to Floral Still Lifes Spring in the Wintertime A Series of Photographs by Bas Meeuws Tanishka D’Lyma In seeking inspiration, or not, an encounter with nature brightens the senses stimulatingan overcoming urge to come up to scale…
Review – Delhi
Those Days: An Exhibition of Vinatege Photographs Mansi Dhiman Mandhwani In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.’ Photography’s long-acknowledged supremacy to mirror the face of the world was by no means forsaken,…
Review – Delhi
Explorations of the Natural World with a Brush and a Camera Elizabeth Rogers “For Man is by nature an artist.”Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) Within the hues of monochrome,exploration of myriad media defines artists and their respective realm of connection with nature….
Review – Delhi
Everything is Black & White Art & Deal correspondent Palette Art Gallery’s summer show ‘Everything is Black & White’opened to the public on the 4th of May 2018, with the main theme being that all works were representations of the…
Review – Mumbai
A Reflection of the Earth in Art Ragmala – Songs of Anthropocene Tanishka Dl’yma The song of the earth is the first thing the protagonist takes in when he steps out of his hut in the morning, and finds it…
Review – Delhi
Caressing History – A draft for body based Historiography INDIRA LAKShMI PRASAD The skin is a central theme throughout the exhibition, in its context as a vast register for history. The skin tells a story which is both inexorable and…
Review – Delhi
IGNOU ROAD 4 Korean Artists’ Unknown Journey Insang Song I G N O U R O A D is a 2km road leading to the Niv Art Center in New Delhi. The road usually suffers from a high level of…
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Showstopper INDIRA LAKSMI PRASAD Showstopper, the solo exhibition curated by Rahul Bhattacharya is a presentation of the bold practice of young artist Varnita Mahanjan. Conceptually the work of this artist explores ideas which are largely socially taboo, seamlessly juxtaposing aesthetics…
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FOLKUS – LOOKING BACK SANJAY DE Folkus, the first-ever folk & tribal art gallery of north-east India, was opened on 6th December, 2017 at Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Road in Silchar, Assam. Sandipan Dutta Purkayastha, Pranab Seal and Ritam Chakraborty are…
VOL.18 NO.126 -127
JULY - AUGUST, 2022