Dinesh Khemani is an Editorial Assistant & Copy Editor with Art & Deal magazine. Waswo . X. Waswo is an artist and collector based in Udaipur. H.A. Anil Kumar is an Art Historian, Art critic and lecturer at Chitrakala Partshath. University in Bangalore. Aparna Roy Baliga teaches Art History at Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda. Lina […]
Month: April 2013
Essay
Monumental Aspirations Waswo X. Waswo “The major thing of this symposium is that all the work will be placed permanently for a lifetime in public places, where the public can always enjoy them, interact with them, and touch them. Udaipur’s city administration, the city’s Magistrate and District Collector, has been most cooperative in encouraging and […]
Essay
Public Art and Art in Public: Performative attitude makes a spectacle of Permanence Those who wanted to watch his works had to do so only in front of the willful artist, in his studio at Malleswaram, from then on. The artist would use a lamp to show the relief sculptures literally in varying lights. There […]
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BLOOM Roohi Kapoor Roohi Kapoor’s vibrant canvases have that quality that artists most yearn for, the ability to make time stand still. At her most recent exhibition, the titles of Kapoor’s work received almost as much attention as the art—The Dreamer, Purple Haze, Mr Here and Mrs Now—evocative titles that lend a storyteller’s verve to […]
Review
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 […]
Cover Story
Iranna’s Sculptures: Silent Cry of the Modern Man Blindness is a pathological condition but it connotes a deeper meaning in his works. The humble posture of the blinded heads lined one after another and the anxiety in their countenance is bold and clear. Iranna captures the plight of modern man where ideological state apparatuses like […]
Review
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 […]
Review
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 […]
Review
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 […]
Editorial
Vinita DasGupta We have delineated a series of interesting Essays that brood on different issues concerning sculpture and public art. Sculpture could also be included under the broad category of public art for it awaits and elicits a reaction from its spectators it interacts with. In this regard, we have examined sculptural installations by G.R […]
Cover Story
In Conversation WITH BANAMALI SHARMA Art & Deal: The materials you use for your sculptures are terracotta, not very common today among sculptors. What is the reason behind this? Also it’s one of the ancient materials used for sculpture, especially used during Indus valley civilization. Banamali Sharma: Terra-cotta was my favourite medium in the 90s. […]
Essay
Spectacles without a stage – an overview of Preksha Tater’s works This aspect of inclusion of the mundane appears again when she was working in the space of a fashion and design store, ‘Bombay electric’. She chooses a discarded wooden doll, aestheticised it with repeated use of price tags. Even the rejected is commodified here. […]
Face to Face
A SOCIALISATION OF ART Interview with Indranil Garai of IGA Art in the public allows for a changed dynamics in the artist/viewer connection. It is a challenge for the artist to envision something that blends into the available elements, and allows the viewer to have an all encompassing experience, creating pockets of beauty and fantasy, […]
Feature
Seema Kohli – Parikrama The Yoginis, a group of tantric divinities (usually 64 or 81 in number) are not mothers, though the principal Yoginis are identified with the eight or Asthamatrikas. The Kaulajnananirnaya text (probably 11th century CE) tells us that the Yoginis live in the sky, and that when they wander the earth they […]
International
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 […]
History
Sculpture and its significance in Society Seema Bhalla In India, sculpture has played a role of importance with a different purpose. The Stambha (pillar) outside the temples have been having, on its top, the sculpture of a deity. The purpose of this was visibility of the temple and its affiliated deity, far and beyond. It […]
Report
With Love from a Cement Company R Dhanya A few years ago the BBMP (Bruhat Bangalore Mahanangara Palike) took upon the task of painting a large part of Bangalore’s public walls in blue, with historical ethnographic and cultural visual platitudes as a way of brightening up the city. Two years ago a cement conglomerate based […]
Cinema
Lalon Fakir: Moner Manush of generations of baul singers… The film in a subtle way refers to the zamindari aspect of the famous Tagore clan and hints at Maharshi Devendranath Tagore to be a very strict zamindar. Although during the end it is shown that Jyotirindranath Tagore makes arrangements of the plot of land where […]
Essay
Detachment Vivek R. Singh ‘Bloom’ is a collection of paintings by artist Roohi Kapoor, showing at the Lalit Kala Akademi from the 28th of March to the 2nd April 2013. Recurring themes of fantasy and reality run throughout the show and, as the title suggests, Roohi’s works represent positive reflections on nature, women and life […]
Review
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 […]
Editorial
Public art in India is scant and is still grappling to pave its way into the psyche of its people. The sculptural installations have to blend into the environment, reflect the mood of the space it acquires and i communicate to the public. In India, the idea of public art mainly entails huge sculptural renditions […]