The Workshop: Sculpting Together
India Fine Arts, Mumbai presents thirteen contemporary Indian artists and their sculptural renditions in a show titled ‘The Workshop’ from 13th-23rd December 2007. Art Concerns.com correspondent previews the show. more »
Capturer of Visions
Binu Bhaskar is a loner in the field of contemporary photography. He has been seriously pursuing his interest in photography of the last fifteen years. With the solo show hosted by Bodhi Art Gallery, New Delhi in February 2008, Binu is all set to make it big in the contemporary art scene. JohnyML profiles the artist and his works. more »
Fruitful Imaginings
Deepak Khatri’s imagination revolves around the food culture of the world. He sculpts images from a vast variety of food arrangements and forwards a critique of the consumer culture. In the catalogue essay for his forthcoming show at the MSU Fine Arts Gallery, Baroda, Sandhya Bordewekar details the aesthetics of his works. more »
Veiling the Façade
Dr. Ashrafi S. Bhagat analyses the sculptural renditions of the Chennai based artist Yuvaraj and says that this artist makes use of the traditional and contemporary knowledge of materials in order to produce critical commentaries on the contemporary social life. more »
Raja Ravi Varma’s Painting Stolen
A famous original painting by Raja Ravi Varma was stolen from a family collection in Kerala. Despite the media intervention, the state police take a callous approach towards the incident. AC Correspondent reports from Kerala. more »
Of a Pristine Introspection
Oindrilla Maity visits the veteran artist Ganesh Haloi at his studio during his solo show in the Sanskriti Art Gallery, Kolkata and comes out with a vivid picture of his life and times. She finds out the cathartic effects of his ruminating works. more »
Abode in a Mutant World
Kerala based P.G.Dinesh draws his visual inspiration from the Sivakasi calendar images, which are emblematic of kitsch art in India. Mutating figures from the calendars with the real and mythical characters, Dinesh opens up a world of fantasy, which facilitates a field of social critique, says JohnyML. more »
Moods of Nature
Mumbai based young painter Ritesh sees nature as his visual resource. His canvases and dark drawings on paper express his love for nature. Aretha K, Mumbai based young art critics tries to go with the mood of Ritesh’s works. more »
The in-between
Gallery Espace, New Delhi, recently presented the latest paintings of the young artist Rooshika Patel in a solo show. Akansha Rastogi, in the catalogue forward explains how memory works as a resource house for the artist to create her minimal works. more »
When Adam’s Daughter Speaks
Santiniketan based Mini Sivakumar recently had a major solo show at the Birla Academy, Mumbai. In the catalogue forward JohnyML says that the artist consciously resorts to the ‘personal is political’ theory of feminism and makes celebratory and silent rebellions in her works. more »
Time and Space: Mutuality in the Arts
Noted literary critic Sitanshu Yashaschandra traces the history of affiliation between poetry and painting against the backdrop of a group show at the ABS Red Earth Gallery, Baroda, curated by Himanshu Joshi, where the twenty participating artists wrote their own poems and made corresponding visual works. more »
Layered Trajectories
Lemongrasshopper Gallery, Ahmedabad recently presented the Delhi based young artist couple, Tanmoy Samanta and Mahula Ghosh in a two persons show. Sandhya Bordewekar analyses the works and the concerns of these artists. more »
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