Category: International

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 brutality, that like his contemporary michaël Borremans, come into contact with the canvas as though […]

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 we want and we are appointed to preserve. Indeed a polluted or variously abused territory […]

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 rivals still. Chastising French impressionist Claude Monet for his inability to paint ‘solid forms’ that […]

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 diverse expressions and cultural edifices with numerous artists from 22 participating countries, together. Singapore Art […]

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 panorama of Chinese contemporary art proposing to enhance the cultural dialogue between Brazil and China. […]

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 sensitivity towards her passion, her art, shares Torsten Jurell. It was early evening in Jingdezhen […]

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 of China’s and the West’scontemporary art world. His works are collected and exhibited both internationally […]

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 the key elements of curatorial practice in your opinion? Has it always been such? AR: […]

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 networking, along with the new co-directors of Art Basel, Marc Spiegler and Annette Schönholzer’s trip […]

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 was labouring over the details for a major forth-coming shoot.; ‘the temperature of the bath […]

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 protagonists of modern painting as his contemporaries; men with a vision for painting that was […]

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 to the fore as one the leading female protagonists of the new generation of contemporary […]

“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 one begin when describing the ubiquitous work of artist, milliner, and designer Shilpa Chavan; free-spirited, […]

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 world. Are you seeking to envelope people with your performances? Nikhil Chopra: Yes, to surround […]

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 with us all sitting opposite one another, as though we were about to play a […]

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. Despite the jarring climatic and agricultural fl uxes, aesthetics has come to the fore, and […]

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 ermath of World War 2. Th e latest edition of Documenta 13 from 9th June […]