Lacuna in Testimony: Credentials yet to be proved
In this exquisite review, Divia Patel, curator, Asian Department, Victoria and Albert Musuem, London, analyses the photographs and videos presented in 'India, Public place/private spaces: Contemporary Photography and Video Art ', a show curated by Gayatri Sinha and Paul Sternberger at the Newark Museum. To find a niche in international art scene, the Indian photography and video artists should produce quality works, Patel says.. more »
Entry and Exit - Points of references
Akansha Rastogi visits the recently held artists-designers show at the newly opened Limited Editions Gallery, New Delhi. Titled Vistaar and curated by Sushma Behl, this show has so many pluses and minuses as at times the whole effort seems to generate fodder for the bullish art market, says Akansha. more »
Deities from the No Man’s Land
Prajakta Palav’s new set of paintings deals with a different urban reality in which the sacred and profane get mixed up. Subhalakshmi Shukla visits the show presented at the Kitab Mahal, Mumbai and comes up with the following observations: more »
The Sublime Rebellion
In the image infested world, George’s paintings are a silent rebellion. A poet and painter, George create moodscapes that invite the onlooker to contemplate on being and becoming. His new works are on display at the Durbar Hall Art Gallery, Kochi. C.S.Venkiteswaran explains the philosophy of George’s works. more »
Sculptures of Catharsis
Enas M.J’s sculptures are confessional. They talk about his personal journey through spiritual and physical crises. In the recent solo show held at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, presented by Threshold Gallery, Enas revisits his pet theme of confession and catharsis, says Artconcerns correspeondent. more »
The Promise of the Believable
In his recently concluded solo at the Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, sculptor Gopinath presented a set of works that dealt with traditional sculpting methods and its conceptual use in the new sculptural productions. Shubhalakshmi Shukla catches up with the artist and works to reveal more about the show. more »
Equinox Shift: Ways of Seeing Here and Now
Joydip Sengupta, a young painter from Delhi has his first major solo at the Bose Pacia, Kolkata. He derives his images from mythologies and from the icons of industrial and IT boom. Oindrilla Maity reviews each work in the show and reveals the artistic intentions. more »
A Spot in the Mountains and Minds
Aakansha Rastogi visits the photography exhibition by Ayesha Kapur and Siya Singh at Gallery Espace and says that the pictures are taken in an obliquely clichéd manner. The reviewer has her reasons to say so and she substantiates her points through the works of the young photographers taken at Dharmsala, the land of Tibetan exile in India. more »
The United Colours of Satrang
Satrang, a group show curated by Sushma Behl and Archana Sapra stands evidence to artificially created curatorial concerns. This could have been a better show, had the curators given a little thought to the good works they had in hand, says JohnyML. more »
Fibroids of the Urban Wombs
Prajakta Potnis’ latest solo at the Guild Gallery, Mumbai has generated a deeper interest amongst the art critics in relating her works with the urban desires and diseases. Shubhalakshmi Shukla has her observations on these works more »
Perish if you don’t love, and if you love too
Manil Gupta’s latest solo show at the Palette Art Gallery tells how the crass commercialization has made the human beings just desiring machines. In this process they get wounded. Despite the sympathy that Manil shows for the hapless creatures called the ‘masses’, the show turns counter productive, JohnyML observes. more »
A journey to the local Post-Office
Shubhalaksmi Shukla visits the recent solo show of Yashpal Chandrakar held at the Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai and walk along the memory lanes with the artist and his works. more »
The One Rupee Communication Industry
Chirodeep Chaudhuri, photography artist based in Mumbai looks at the coin telephone entrepreneurs through his camera and presents a series at the Gallery 88, Mumbai. Chaudhuri’s photographs do not offer answers, but open out marginalized histories and enterprises of this metropolis via an aesthetic exploration of its street graphics, Amrita Gupta Singh. more »
Pulsating Questions
Tangerine Art Gallery recently presented a group show of eminent and upcoming artists’ works on paper in Bangalore. Rollie Mukherjee and V. Divakar visit the show and raise a few questions regarding the images treated by the participating artists. more »
Rebel’s Graffiti and Institutional Manna
Rebel Graffiti, a show curated by JohnyML at the OED Gallery, explores the idea of being rebel in the contemporary times with its farcical nuances. Kavitha Balakrishnan in her review of the show says that in this show, the ‘rebel’ is not a person. It is not a style. It is but any philosophical situation that is daring enough to see itself as it is. more »
Corporal Concerns
‘What Wears Me’, a group show of eight photographers, curated by Matthieu Foss is successful as the pictures intercede the political and religious, the free and shackled and the canonical and the atypical. It is interesting to see an open embrace between painterly goals and photographic references, says Vrushali Dhage. more »
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