That little nip in the air still freshens up the soul as you step outside this February. We welcome the coming of spring with a new zest as new possibilities are no more a word out of a work of fiction but a reality consequential of changing mindsets ready to evolve. With positive signals worldwide […]
Month: February 2014
NEWS
Bharat Ratna Sachin Tendulkar Studio Art is screening works on master blaster Sachin Tendulkar by Gurgaon based famous artist Sanjay Mehta. On the occasion of Sachin Tendulkar’s 200th Special Test series dedicated to him, Creative Voiz has organized a special screening of works on Great Legend. The works will show his first ever double century […]
COVER STORY
K.G. Subramanyan: A Life Fully Lived Sandhya Bordewekar Sandhya Bordewekar in conversation with Prof. K G Subramanyan about his life as a student in Santiniketan. Sandhya Bordewekar: You went to Santiniketan in 1944, aged 20. Santiniketan was a long, long way off. So why Santiniketan and what were the initial days there like? K.G. Subramanyan: […]
ESSAY
Indian Art School Practices and Dissolving of ‘Construed Will’ H. A. Anil Kumar Art education in the Indian context is an unresolved issue. It is the construed will or the lack of it to address it which is more pedagogically threatening. Earlier, I had roughly classified Indian art schools into ‘well known’ and ‘ill known’ […]
FEATURE
Once Upon a Time: The Wonder Year s Yasra Daud Khoker As we grow older, we lose the ability to wonder. Big words and big things overshadow the little things that once seemed so big. Logic takes over solutions wrung dry of magic – not the technically sophisticated, ‘rational magic’ that J. K. Rowling taught […]
FEATURE
Alternative Art : Functional art-craftwork by artists Sandhya Bordewekar Exploring the concepts of a ‘product laboratory’ through innovative platforms like 0265, bridging the artwork versus craftwork divide in contemporary or traditional realms, Sandhya Bordewekar analyzes the nurturing kinship between the artist and the artisan. There has always been this rather uncomfortable turf between art and […]
FEATURE
The real, the palpable and the unseen in Kavita Jaiswal’s Compositions Mariam Karim There is a seeking and evocative quality in Kavita’s compositions which is an essential component of the mind of the contemporary abstract artist. It comes forward more in her work, deliberately involving the viewer in the process of artistic generation rather than […]
FEATURE
The print making idiom , route and milieu of Ajit Seal Dr.Meghali Goswami “I believe that art is a creative bridge between our imaginative vision, which tends to recreate the primal human condition, and our current artistic sensibility, which responds to the existential paradoxes ingrained in the human psyche” – Ajit Seal Some are born […]
REPORT
A Site Where Art Awakes 3rd Regional Art Workshop’ 2014 at Silchar, Assam Abhibrata Chakrabarty The green meadow of a remote village of Choto Dudh Patil in Silchar was awash in colour on the evening of 15th January of 2014. The topsy-turvy landscape of the meadow stood transformed into a new architectural horizon of an […]
PHOTO FEATURE
WALKING in HAUZ KHAS Saba Hasan The Hauz Khas madarsa and its lake have been adopted by me as artistic inspiration, a challenge, a form of history and a symbol, actually, an entire philosophical microcosm, right from the start. I take a long time to develop my creative ideas and prefer to work in a […]
CINEMA
SUCHITRA SEN: The Unmatc hable Golde n Diva of India n Silver Screen Santanu Ganguly The kind of respect and fan following Suchitra Sen got from the people of Bengal, I doubt any other actress in India can match it. She was known to be one of the most dignified and elegant actresses of her […]
Matters of heArt
Matters of heArt with Paramjot Walia Samar Jodha You exhibited independently at Venice, this time, in contrast to 2011 when you were part of a larger Indian presentation. How was the experience different? My work was part of a video projection by various non-Indian artists in 2011. So I wasn’t part of India Pavilion that […]
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. Art Konsult Gallery’s solo booth of Vinita Dasgupta, curated by Rahul Bhattacharya, offered some very […]
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 in with the depth and mystic feel of the works of Girjesh who was brought […]
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 to budge from its position as night makes its way through the day ritualizing wait […]
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 offers a unique multimedia interactive exhibition which seeks to unravel the mystique of music by […]
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 at Gallery Espace is a delightfully minimal series of vaguely Mondrian-like collective series based on […]