Category: Review

SHANTAMANI M – OPEN STUDIO BANGLORE Lina Vincent Sunish Hard hitting and poetic at the same time, the works evoke a range of responses connected to the external form and theme, and also continuing the integral connotations of the (precious) medium, that comes with a loaded history involving power and violence. The artist layers her […]

Paintings in prose Georgina Maddox The Vishakapatnam-based Ramesh has been fascinated and enraptured by the poetry of these women poets because of the transgressive nature of their acts—they all left home to wander as poet-saints, spreading their poetry and musings on divinity.They eschewed earthly ties like marriage in the face of great opposition often at […]

Regional Art Work shop 2013: possibilities beyond horizon Sayan Dey Dhaneshwar Shah, an internationally acclaimed artist in his thirties was one of the resource persons for the two days workshop. Well ‘it is not about the age, it is about mileage’ seems to be the catch line which suits Shah pretty well. Despite his young […]

Artist-in-Conversation Subhra Mazumdar Beyond the pale of Indian participation, Handley confirmed that his project had drawn worldwide attention due partly to the openness of the call. ‘Anyone in the world can apply and so far, 550 artists, four curators,10 choices of sites and interaction with eminent people in the visual arts world internationally, have excited […]

The Spiritual Zenith Pranamita Borgohain Neeraj Goswami’s solo show titled, ‘Liquid Distillation of Animated Consciousness’ was showcased at Lalit Kala Akademi, Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi from 29th January 2013 to 4thFebruary 2013 organized by Agra based Sanchit Art Gallery. Sanchit Art dealing with the best of contemporary Indian Art will soon be expanding their presence […]

The Many Shade s of Black Three Decades of Carrie Mae Weems At The Frist Center For The Visual Arts like the lives of most African Edward Rubin The Frist Center For The Visual Arts, also known as “The Little Museum That Could” has been mounting important, groundbreaking exhibitions ever since it opened its doors […]

Reviving the forgotten aesthetics of Kalighat painting in a contemporary language – Dinesh Khemani Kalam Patua’s recent exhibition at Gallery Espace is varied and striking. A simple postmaster by profession, underneath there beats the heart of a true artist. His works range from humble depictions and aspirations of rural life, to satirizing the sudden emergence […]

Surekha Ragi.net – Post Oil City- Bangalore Gardens Reloaded – R Dhanya To the left of a life size replica of Wright brothers’ first ever airplane, a small enclosure opens to the science museum visitors with a lawn of ragi (millet) growing out of computer keyboards. Dark, chocolaty mud sits in the unfamiliar space between […]

Annual Art Exhibition, 2013 The Indian Institute of fine art, Silchar – Dr. Meghali Goswami We have seen how children are deeply involved in art. But beyond what we feel and believe, there is much honest information about why art is important in our children’s development; that is both interesting and helpful to know. Creating […]

FRIDAY FLEA MARKET an artist’s impression of this inspiration. – Kruti Mukherjee ‘REMEMBERING THE OLD DAYS – SHUKRAWAR INHERITANCE & INFLUENCE’ at Sarjan Art Gallery Baroda was an exhibition of works done by artists using materials collected from the ‘FRIDAY FLEA MARKET’. This exhibition was an effort to revive the rich historical past and bridging […]

Infinity’s “LIGHT n SHADOW”: where reality merges with metaphors- Sayan Dey At a time when creative minds around the globe are trying to explore life beyond cramped quarters of grand narratives and points where metaphors and reality co-exist, five young photo clickers from the furthest most river valley in Assam have also engaged themselves to […]

India Art Festival’s second edition concluded in Mumbai with huge expectationsIndia Art Festival, a modern and contemporary art fair, hosted from 28 Nov to 02 Dec, 2012 in Mumbai showcased more than 3000 artworks. There were 40 art galleries along with 300 individual artists that participated in the second edition India Art Festival from 50 […]

ANISH KAPOOR – at The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia This unique exhibition, which is the first major presentation of the artist’s work in Australia, includes works from the early stages of Kapoor’s career to the present day. It explores the artist’s continual experimentation across a variety of materials including clay, plastic, pigment, steel and […]

REVIEW OF THE S.SHAM SUNDER’S PAINTING AND DRAWING SHOW “BORDERS AND BOUNDARIES” AT SUMUKHA GALLERY, BANGALORE, TILL END OF OCTOBER 2012 Horizon as a visible Circle Shamsunder’s set of paintings and drawings, titled as “Borders and Boundaries”, together form a vision that is pleasant, but (hence) served unavailable to today’s sight. Th ey are painted […]

THE INNER EYE: ThTh e Artist as an Urban Shaman Dhiraj Singh is a self-taught artist who apart from full time journalism, works on canvas and mixed media. Unlike his abstract paintings of acrylic on canvas that take a stratospheric view of life on earth as interpreting ‘mood- maps’, his installations tend to delve deeper […]

OF DESIRE MACHINES AND HUMAN CONDITIONS ‘ Soft subversion’ and ‘Human conditions’ were two conceptual frameworks with which Birendra Pani and Rajiba Pani worked for their exhibition in Red Earth Gallery in Baroda’.Soft subversion’ speaks about the ‘new social reality in which the maximum of ecstasy is combined with the maximum of consciousness.’(Felix Guattari)He is […]

ARTICULATED VIOLENCE AND THE ECONOMY OF THE UNSPOKEN Th e ascending stairs have the alphabets conjoined by the liquid in the test tube and further one has a panorama of what a ‘lived reality’ can never be the synonym of what an anticipated ‘ live moment’ would be- this is the message of Amit Mukhopadhyay’s […]

All to do with the loss of humanity lack of identity loss of civilized values… Unfortunate that it all happened because of the government’s pride and prejudice but that is not the issue which is to be discussed, its now the 52 nd year where eleven martyrs sacrificed their lives for the cause of their […]