News

Art India Magazine Promising Awards Declared

Chinmoy Pramanick	Baptist Coelho

Chinmoy Pramanick and Baptist Coelho, two emerging artist are the winners of this year’s Promising Artist Award of the Art India Magazine. Jointly instituted by Art India Magazine and the Visual Arts Gallery, IHC, New Delhi, The Promising Artists Award for 2007 will be given away in New Delhi on 1st November 2007. A jury comprising of Sangita Jindal, Gulam Mohammed Sheikh, Baiju Parthan, Namita Saraf, Urmila Kanoria, Shireen Gandhy, Raj Liberhan, Alka Pande and Art India Magazine Editor Abhay Sardesai selected Pramanick and Coelho from a host of emerging artists. The award includes a citation and a purse of Rs.300,000/-. “The competition that leads to the award is an opportunity for artists, especially those who do not have access for funding and infrastructural support to prove themselves,” said Abhay Sardesai in a press note.

Somnath Hore at Gallery Espace, New Delhi

Selected sculptures of Somnath Hore are presented in a commemorative show titled ‘Agony and Ecstasy’ at the Gallery Espace, New Delhi. The occasion also marks the inauguration of a new level space added to the Gallery Espace. The show will be on till 16th November 2007.

Kartick Chandra Pyne at Art Konsult

West Bengal based artist Kartick Chandra Pyne presents his latest solo at the Art Konsult Gallery, New Delhi. The show will be on till 25th November 2007. ‘Nature, not only in the sense of physical beings visible out there, but, more importantly, in the sense vital life force that causes birth, growth, youth, age, decay, death and regeneration, through other connectedness in the forms and looks of being-are Kartick Chandra’s fable building blocks,’ says Pranab Ranjan Ray in the catalogue.

Sudhir Patwardhan at Sakshi, Mumbai

Sakshi Gallery is proud to present the works of one of India’s leading contemporary artist Sudhir Patwardhan. The premier show will open on 15th November and will be on view till 28th November at Sakshi Gallery. The exhibition will subsequently travel from Mumbai to Kolkata and then from Delhi to Vadodara. 
There have been a number of fascinating parallels which have been drawn between physical, psychological and social conditions of contemporary urban society and the works of arts by artists that represent the reality in a transparent manner. 
Sudhir Patwardhan’s bodies of works are examples of this constant dialogue between ‘Art’ and ‘Society’. His paintings allow viewers a panoramic view with multiple perspectives. The urban milieu of rapid transformation, alienation, dislocation and anonymity are explored with finesse in his works.

Shivani Aggarwal at Bombay Art Gallery

Bombay Art Gallery presents a show of the Delhi based artist Shivani Aggarwal on 20th November 2007 at the Jehangir Nicholson Gallery, NCPA, Mumbai. The show will be on till 28th November. Born in New Delhi, India Shivani completed Bachelor of Fine Art (painting) from College of Art, New Delhi in 1996 and M.A (cert.) painting from Wimbledon School of Art, London, UK in 2003 supported by the Charles Wallace India Trust Scholarship. “My art practice primarily started with the concept of layering. My images dealt with the construction of an identity through clothes (a layer on the skin). These layers expressed the social, cultural and gender beliefs, which have been woven into the fabric of our minds,” says the artist in her statement.

Anjum Singh at Bodhi, Gurgaon (Haryana)

Bodhi, Gurgaon presents the latest works of the Delhi based artist Anjum Singh on 2nd November 2007. Titled ‘Urban Sprawl’ this show is a preview of an exhibition which is slated to take place in Singapore. The preview will be on till 8th November. The Singapore show will be between 22nd November to 22nd December 2007.

Atul Dodiya at Asia Art Archive

As a part of the ongoing series of lectures at the Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong, Atul Dodiya will give an illustrated talk on 22nd November 2007 at the Bloomberg Auditorium, Cheung Kong Centre at 6.30 pm. The artist will introduce his prolific body of work, and talk about what inspires and has shapes his work. Based in Mumbai, Dodiya is one of the most prolific and accomplished artists working in India today. Since graduating from Mumbai's JJ School of Art in 1982, he has worked in a wide range of medium to include installation, photography and painting. This lecture is third in the four parts series.

Prantik Chattopadhyay at Sakshi, Mumbai

Sakshi Gallery presents the recent works by Prantik Chattopadhyay. The show opens on 31st October and will be on view till 12th November. Prantik’s works titled ‘Pehchan Kaun?’ are based on creation of myths of ‘Superheroes’. He has depicted contemporary role models sourced from Bollywood blockbusters. Prantik works are both a homage and an enigmatic approach to new age ‘avatars’ whom he refers to as ‘Woodlanders’. His works deal with an aesthetic equivalent of melting pot – an almost seamless merger of art and cinema.

Ranjani Shettar at Talwar Gallery, New Delhi

Talwar Gallery, New Delhi presents ‘Epiphanies’ an exhibition of recent works by Ranjani Shettar. The works will be on view from October 2007 through 31st January 2008. In this exhibition Ranjani extends her focus to using natural materials to communicate a large sense of history and evolution. In choosing materials whose meanings are literally inscribed in their forms, the artist urges the viewer to uncover, in gentle epiphanies, the stories contained therein.