Art & Deal

Monthly Art Magazine in India

    • Review

    Review

    REVIEW

    Art and History, finding One Another [Delhi] Art & Deal Correspondent An Indian kaleidoscope – An exhibition bringing together the best of art and history from India 200 years ago by Pran Sabharwal Foundation Exhibition featuring lithographs, wood engraving by…

    Posted on Art & Deal
    Review

    REVIEW

    Museum of Unknown Memories [DELHI ] Premjish Achari Two significant events of the 1980s form an important memory in Manish Pushkale’s life and his artistic trajectory. The 1982 foundation of Bharat Bhavan and the 1984 tragic Bhopal Gas Tragedy has…

    Posted on Art & Deal
    Review

    REVIEW

    Construing Exhibition Spaces A structure re defines everything in and around it. [Bangalore] Sandhya Annaiah Art practice in Bangalore is mostly noted for having established itself outside of the institutional spaces (like galleries, museums, art colleges etc.) and creating a…

    Posted on Art & Deal
    Review

    REVIEW

    “We Have Accepted As A People That The Female Breast Is Sexual”: Megha Joshi Objects [Delhi] Artika Raj “There is censorship of the female breast and nipple only. While the genitalia of both men and women are similarly covered, there…

    Posted on Art & Deal
    Review

    REVIEW

    Excavation Eruption [Delhi] Premjish Achari “Suffocation overwhelms me in these closed roomsWhen I throw open the windows, miasma engulfs me.” -Kamleshwar, Partitions I write this review at a time when images of ISIS members vandalizing historic artefacts at the Mosul…

    Posted on Art & Deal
    Review

    REVIEW

    ‘Rock the Void’ Josef Dabernig Retrospective Exhibition at MUMOK Preeti Kathuria [Vienna] “If simplicity were the one overriding goal of art, evenly stained canvases or perfect cubes would be the most desirable art objects” (Arnheim, 1974, p. 410). The work…

    Posted on Art & Deal
    Review

    REVIEW

    Embalming a Museum Culture Sushma Sabnis From wide eyed awe to boredom relieving yawns and every reaction between these two extremes, is what a museum could evoke in its audience. Artist Waswo X Waswo and his collaborators snip away with…

    Posted on Art & Deal
    Review

    REVIEW

    S. H. Raza and His Litany of Color and Form Shruthi Issac S.H. Raza’s untamed landscapes add aesthetic sensibility to his memories whereas the ‘Bindu’ serves as a focus of universal energy. Shruthi Issac reviews the ongoing solo show of…

    Posted on Art & Deal
    Review

    REVIEW

    Circumambulating Melancholy From inside Out Venkatesh K. N Crosstalk is about four artists’ different expressions for a common pursuit; personal yet universal struggle to cope with the contemporary living. Venkatesh K N reviews. The recent show Crosstalk at Sumukha gallery…

    Posted on Art & Deal
    Review

    REVIEW

    Of Truth, Peace & Love Neelam Malhotra Eva’s sensibility of composition, language of colors and forms all come together, without resistance and in total balance with matter and energy to create abstraction that elevates to spirituality and catalyzes paths to…

    Posted on Art & Deal
    Review

    REVIEW

    The Cassandra in you.. Paramjot Walia ‘You Can’t Keep Acid In A Paper Bag’ brings home some of the installations and international projects of Nalini Malani, one of the foremost artists of India today, that have never been shown before….

    Posted on Art & Deal
    Review

    REVIEW

    “Where have all the FLOWERS GONE long time passing?” Clyde D’ Mello Udeya Vir Singh through his performance reminisces the old green spaces and urges the audience to take a step back and think about environmental issues and the cause-effect…

    Posted on Art & Deal
    Review

    REVIEW

    In Pursuit of Mists, Clouds and Waves Premjish Achari Spiritual Sojourn saw a perfect blend of aesthetics and expression through Shridhar Iyer’s works as the bold tranquil strokes explore a deeper uninhibited meta-physical realm. Premjish Achari reviews. ‘Spiritual’ and ‘Sensuous’…

    Posted on Art & Deal
    Review

    REVIEW

    Reviewing a ‘City in Transit’: Constitutional Parallels H. A. Anil Kumar Show at Rangoli Art Center bridges the disconnect with the post and stares at you with its vast baggage of history H. A. Anil Kumar Celebrates the “old” the…

    Posted on Art & Deal
    Review

    REVIEW

    Dear Alice! CLYDE D’MELLO Deceiving, comforting fantasy plays its trick and keeps you cushioned from the outside world; but when reality knocks and tears this delusion apart you have no choice but to face reality. Clyde D’Mello reviews the exhibition…

    Posted on Art & Deal
    Review

    REVIEW

    Unison from diversion Pranamita Borgohain Using a fine amalgam of music, dance and vocal art, the performance “Quit from Split” emphasised the importance of ‘oneness’ in this diversified world. Pranamita Borgohain reports. If we cannot now end our differences, at…

    Posted on Art & Deal
    Review

    REVIEW

    Representing Mysticism as a Paradox Review of ‘ Remembrance of Voices Past’ H. A. Anil Kumar Under the labyrinth of constant change lies the consistency,the oneness of being, the oscillation between the past and future. H.A.Anil Kumar interacts with the…

    Posted on Art & Deal
    Review

    REVIEW

    Each Night Put Kashmir In Your Dreams Uma Nair This exhibition at the Chemould Prescott Gallery captures the true essence of Kashmir with its serene beauty, perturbed history and controversial present. Uma Nair listens as Nilima Sheikh tries to give…

    Posted on Art & Deal
    Review

    REVIEW

    Where photography meets public Paramjot Walia Central Delhi celebrated a French-Indian collaboration through ‘’Fête de la photo‘,a photofest providing avenues to bring photography closer to the public, reports Paramjot Walia. This season, photography trespasses the confines of the galleries and…

    Posted on Art & Deal
    Review

    REVIEW

    The Full Space Paramjot Walia The exhibition titled ‘The Full Space’ offers an alternative perspective and encourages the viewer to open his mind and experience the ‘formless form’ outside and beyond the physical presence of form and space, Paramjot Walia…

    Posted on Art & Deal
    Review

    REVIEW

    Kalpvriksha-The Tree of Life Paramjot Walia Arts Of The Earth is showcasing ‘Kalpvriksha- The Tree of Life’, an unique exhibition not only because of its concept but also because it beautifully incorporates all the three styles of Madhubani art— bharni…

    Posted on Art & Deal
    Review

    REVIEW

    Retelling a story teller Art & Deal Correspondent The India Art Fair 2014 was busy, engaging and varied. It is always a challenge for the viewer to be able to concentrate and see art works in all this celebratory chaos….

    Posted on Art & Deal
    Review

    REVIEW

    POETICS OF KABIR IN STONE AND BRICK Uma Nair At the Habitat Centre this January was a brilliant exhibition created in stone and brick that had a very queer title. ‘ Often I miss You’ didn’t quite seem to fit…

    Posted on Art & Deal
    Review

    REVIEW

    Emptiness of existence Paramjot Walia A solemn empty chair in a collage of 24 paintings where the color gradient could either depict the 24 hours of a day or the bright colors could be a metaphor of happy times, refuses…

    Posted on Art & Deal
    Review

    REVIEW

    AN ODE TO THE GODDESS OF MUSIC Uma Nair It isn’t often that one would find an exhibition at the National Museum which explores the marriage of technology and culture. But the strains of Beethoven’s composition from a hollow piano…

    Posted on Art & Deal
    Review

    REVIEW

    ZARINA HASHMI: OF PAPER’S MATERIALITY Uma Nair The very term “Folding House” became a stimulus for creativity last week at the opening of Zarina Hashmi who is considered a citizen of the world; and on a wall of the staircase…

    Posted on Art & Deal
    Review

    REVIEW

    SUBODH GUPTA, Recent Works- THE ART OF THE MUNDANE FRANCK BARTHLLEMY Franck Barthelemy wants to remember Subodh Gupta’s latest exhibition at SKE Gallery, Bangalore as a dialogue with the century’s old tradition of still lives and naturalism. Through the selection…

    Posted on Art & Deal
    Review

    REVIEW

    FLAG MARCH OF REASSURANCE SUSHMA SABNIS Every once in a while, a nation chooses to display its strength as a reassurance to the citizens it houses, aptly called a flag march, where various streams of security forces parade in all…

    Posted on Art & Deal
    Review

    REVIEW

    OF THE UNSEEN AND METAPHORIC PARAMJOT WALIA Using numerous metaphors of the subliminal kinds, three renowned artists bring to the fore a unique show titled, ‘Cat Walk, Blue Moon’ at the Sanchit Art Gallery, New Delhi. The show focuses on…

    Posted on Art & Deal
    Review

    REVIEW

    THINKING OUT OF THE DRAWING BOX SUSHMA SABNIS When providence brings together a group of enthusiastic like-minded artists from all over the world through a social media platform, few would doubt its successful outcome. The Drawing Box is one such…

    Posted on Art & Deal
    Review

    REVIEW

    INTERFACE PREETI JOSEPH What happens when eight artists native to the same land, with eight viewpoints and ideologies and numerous interpretations come together to express it artistically? A show titled ‘Interface’ is born which acts as a polemic of bygone…

    Posted on Art & Deal
    Review

    REVIEW

    HOMING IN LINA VINCENT SUNISH What is the meaning of home, asks Karl Antao in his recently concluded exhibition ‘Mind the Home’ at Sumukha Gallery, Bangalore. The artist, in his exquisite sculptures looks at the meaning of being sheltered and…

    Posted on Art & Deal
    Review

    REVIEW

    TICKLING THE BURLESQUE BONE Sushma Sabnis (Humour of the satirical and the burlesque kind dominates artist Anirban Mitra’s work which thrives on hyper amplified imagery dipping its feet in various streams of life to set off a cannon of visual…

    Posted on Art & Deal
    Review

    REVIEW

    THE REALITY MIRAGE Paramjot walia At times photographs act as a mirage by creating a fictional world which seems hopeful when seen within the confines of a frame, but reality maybe suffocating under the labyrinth of these colorful submerging printed…

    Posted on Art & Deal