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From the concern's desk
We are going monthly...
Indian art is going through a series of changes now. The breakneck pace of the art market has slowed down a bit and this has given an opportunity for everyone to do some kind of soul searching... read on » |
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Curating in Crisis
Chintan Upadhyay and Bose Krishnamachari have been voicing their concerns about Indian curatorial practice through their art projects for the last few years. Considering their arguments, JohnyML says that Indian curatorial practice is going through a phase of crisis; a phase of identity crisis ... read on » |
Bose Krishnamachari |
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Bose Krishnamachari
Bose Krishnamachari is an artist with many talents. He works on different mediums with the same artistic verve. Studied in Sir.J.J.School of Art, Mumbai and Goldsmiths College, London, Bose started off his career with abstract paintings. Though he used to paint in a hyper-real style during his formative years, the language of abstraction attracted him considerably after his studies in Mumbai. more »
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Banoj Mohanty |
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Banoj Mohanty
Born in 1974, Rourkela, Orissa, Banoj Mohanty did his BFA in B.K.College of Arts and Crafts, Bhuvaneswar and MFA in painting from Rai University, New Delhi. His paintings show a great affinity for the ritualistic images of Orissa. more »
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Offbeat
So This is Bombay
From Ravi Shanker's theatre |
Artconcerns presents three poems by the Thiruvannamalai based poet and environmental activist Ananda Surya.
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T for Theatre !!!
Ravi Shanker, a Delhi based theatre activist talks to Kuljeet Singh about his involvement with the new concept of Theatre and for him T means only Theatre. Excerpts from the interview » |
| Essays |
Understanding Art Practice as Witnessing
Will there be any collective effort to bridge the theory/practice binary in the Indian context remains a matter of debate, asks Amrita Gupta Singh while placing the presentation of the Beijing based curator Lu Jie on ‘Long March Project’. more »
Making of ‘visual behaviors’ in print
In this well researched essay noted art historian Kavitha Balakrishnan sketches a brief case history of illustrations in Malayalam periodicals. more »
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Blessed Bandwidths in the Times of Pogroms
Shilpa Gupta |
Shilpa Gupta has been involved in creating interactive multimedia art project for the last few years. She speaks to Amrita Gupta Singh about her initiation into the world of multimedia art, her socio-political concerns and how she engages herself with the issues of articulation, dissemination and copyright. Excerpts »
Transforming the World with the Magic of Art
Manisha |
Manisha Gera Baswani has just finished her grand solo show at the Palette Art Gallery, New Delhi. In an interview with JohnyML, the artist speaks about her subtle world of images as well as the concrete world of realities.
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| Features |
1, 2, 3…Happy Galaxy
Gitanjali Dang features the limited edition painting book by Sanjeev Khandekar. In this book the artist depicts the problems of corporate spiritualism and neo-fascism. more »
Talking about TALK
Noted young artist Manjunath Kamath writes the concept of his acclaimed video work ‘TALK’, which was recently shown in ‘I Fear, I Believe, I Desire’, a show curated by Gayatri Sinha at the Espace Gallery, New Delhi. more »
Communing with Urban Heroines
Rollie Mukherjee and V. Divakar, Bangalore based art critic duo looks at the latest video works of Surekha and articulates the concerns of artist while testifying them with their critical knowledge. These videos were recently shows at Goethe Institute Max Muller Bhavan, Bangalore. more »
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| Reviews |
I fear, I believe, I desire
Akansha Rastogi visits the I fear, I believe, I desire show at the Gallery Espace, New Delhi and comes out with a feeling that most of the works in the exhibition send out a feeling of ‘perforated images’. more»
Fluid manifestations of material Forms : On Jyotee
Shubhalakshmi shukla observes that the noted artist Jyotee who had her recent solo exhibition at the Project 88 Gallery, Kolkata, explores the qualities of timelessness, infinity and the cosmic in her new set of works. more »
Reserved – Of Humans and Objects
C S Venkiteswaran visits the two men show - TM Aziz and Yashwant Deshmukh at the Kashi Art Gallery, Kochi and comes out with a feeling that the very distinction between these two artists’ works bring them face to face in a vibrant encounter. more» |
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