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A work by Thotta Vaikuntam

Thotta Vaikuntam Solo at India Fine Arts

Mumbai based India Fine Arts presents an exclusive solo of the veteran artist Thotta Vaikuntam. The exhibition was inaugurated on 26th February 2007 and it will be on view till 4th March 2007. The master artist born in Andhra Pradesh is well known for his depictions of rural folk in rich colours. His portraiture of the rural women has attracted the critical attention of the art world.

A work by Updendranath TR

Upendranath solo at Bombay Art Gallery

Noted young collage artist Upendranath T.R will have his first Mumbai solo show with Aditya Ruia’s Bombay Art Gallery. The show opens on 3rd March 2007. Upendranath is a self taught artist with a wide range experience in collage art. He has been doing collage art for the last fifteen years and has participated in many group shows. Upendranath’s conceptual installations using collage technique are well known in the Indian art scene. Upendranath lives and works in Kochi, Kerala.

Shilpa Gupta's installation

Shilpa Gupta at Sakshi, Mumbai

After the Delhi expo, Shilpa Gupta’s multimedia/video installation project will open in Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai on 3rd March 2007. In these interactive video projects Shilpa Gupta deals with the notions of geographical boundaries, human love and all what goes against the freedom of human beings. The programmatic nature of ideology and its influence on the human beings is dealt strongly in her works.

Subodh Gupta at Bodhi, Mumbai

Internationally known artist Subodh Gupta’s latest works will be exhibited at the Bodhi Art, Mumbai. The show opens on 1st March 2007.

Communing with Urban Heroines:
A culture-specific visual project by Surekha

Bangalore based video artist Surekha will present her latest visual project with video and photo installations on 16th March 2007 at Max Mueller Bhavan, Bangalore. The show will be on till 22nd March 2007.  Based on a survey of unnatural deaths in the city of Bangalore, Surekha has created characters from urban and popular folklore and myth - larger than life images that act as real, symbolic and metaphorical characters. The situations are created/re-located in the present time. The focus is on domestic elements and also the relation between the body and natural elements like fire, water and earth.
By engaging the body as a 'form of intervention, real and/ or metaphorical', within a given circumstance and discourse, private or public, there is an attempt to perceive the newer definitions that a 'real' and 'imagined' body acquires in dealing with its own 'identity', in the cultural time and space within which it is located.

Manisha Gera Baswani at Palette, New Delhi

Rohit Gandhi and Rahul Khanna of Palette Art Gallery, New Delhi presents the latest works of Manisha Gera Baswani. This wonderfully executed show opened on 27th February 2007. Manisha uses tea water and gouache on board to create her paintings. Her inspirations come from her extensive travels and from her keen interest in Indian, Pakistani and Persian miniature traditions. She does not believe in subverting the social norms through aggressive paintings. However, using subtle autobiographical references vis-à-vis pictorial imageries she intervenes in the social happenings. Subtlety is what makes her work attractive.

Contemporary Art in Asia Seminar

Delhi Biennale Society and the School of Arts and Aesthetics jointly present a three day seminar on Contemporary Art in Asia. Titled ‘Elective Affinities and Constitutive Differences’ this seminar will be commencing on 9th March 2007 at the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation, Rajendra Prasad Road, New Delhi. Art historians, scholars and curators from the Asian region will participate in the seminar.

MEC Gallery’s show at IHC, New Delhi
‘Endearing Palette’, a group show of fifty eminent and upcoming artists opened at the Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi on 28th February 2007. Presented by the MEC Gallery, this exhibition show cases a wide variety of works. The show will be on view till 5th March 2007.

Abhimanue VG

Instilling Life at Hacienda Gallery

A group show of seventeen artists will be opened at Mumbai’s Hacienda Gallery on 5th March 2007. Titled ‘Instilling Life’, the show has Abhay Gaekwad, Abhimanue VG, Abir Patwardhan, Chinmoy Pramanik, Deepak Kannal, Dilip Chobisa, Debraj Goswami, Gayatri Gamuz, Indrapramit Roy, Kim Kyoungae, Nehal Rachch, Nikhileswar Baruah, M.Pravat, Pradeep Mishra, Shruti Nelson, M.Sasidharan and Yaswant Deshmukh as participating artists. The show is curated by Jasmine Shah Varma and the show will be on till 15th March 2007.

Work by Viraj Naik

Red Earth, New Delhi Presents Holi Events

Himanshu Verma’s Red Earth will present a series of art events to celebrate the festival of colours, Holi. Supported by the Art Room, the events will kick start on 3rd March 2007 at 119, Western Avenue, Sainik Farms, New Delhi. There will be a show of twenty two artists from different parts of the country. A special event titled ‘My Holi Clothes’ is also conceptualized by Himanshu Verma. In this performative act and documentation, curator-artist Himanshu Verma will wear different types of clothes and these will be seen at their various stages of fading. Noted artists namely Hemant Khandewal, Amita Abbi Prashant, Manil Gupta, Rohini Singh and Jenson Anto will collaborate with Himanshu.