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Ivan Smith at Vine Space

Ivan Smith, the British artist who recently exhibited with the Ashish Balram Nagpal Galleries in Mumbai, has his latest solo show in London. Titled ‘Penny Black’, the solo will be showcased at Vine Space on 6th September 2007.

Gallery Threshold, New Delhi

Gallery Threshold present twin shows at Indian Habitat Centre, New Delhi on 2nd September 2007. At the Visual Arts Gallery, it is a group show of Jogen Choudhury, Rameshwar Broota and Prabhakar Kolte and at the Open Palm Court Gallery at the same venue, the gallery will present the recent sculptures of M.J.Enas. The show will be on view till 6th September 2007.

Gallery Art and Soul, Mumbai

Gallery Art and Soul presents a group show titled ‘Embodied’ on 5th September 2007. Curated by Jasmine Shah Varma, the exhibition features the works of T.M.Aziz, Farhad Hussain, Jehangir Jani, Nikhileswar Baruah, Nilesh Kumawat, Payal Khandwala, Prasant Sahu, Samir Aich, Sonatina Mendes, Sunil Padwal and Trupti Patel. The show will be on till 28th September 2007.

Galerie Helene Lamarque, Paris

Paris’ Nuit Blanche
An evening of culture organised by Paris’s town hall

Night of the 6-7th October 2007
From 7pm until late
- Thierry Farcy (artist, but also a doctor) will present a video which will be accompanied by a performance in the street in front of the gallery.
After his first retrospective exhibition at the Alençon Fine-Arts museum last January, Thierry Farcy is continuing his research on human beings, with his ephemeral installations made of ice. These ice heads, soaked in gouache of different colors, will be placed on a huge sheet of paper on the sidewalk of the rue Vaneau. Throughout the evening they will melt onto this support, creating an abstract composition.
The video Chair(s) disparu(es) (Dear Departed), tackles the theme of violence and war. It shows heads made from ice on the site of the Normandy landings. These heads melt slowly onto the sand, and as they do, hair appears suggesting the animal side to all human beings. Suddenly, flames will devour these heads, in the same way that flames from the bombings not so long ago exhausted the land. This finale brings to mind a type of catharsis.
- Bose Krishnamachari (Indian artist who lives in Bombay) will present a previously unseen work which is halfway between an installation and a painting.
Recently the French public discovered works by this artist not only at the Lille festival The Bombaysers, but also in Paris during the India! exhibition at the gallery in April. For the Nuit Blanche, Krishnamachari will present his works in France once more.

Upcoming exhibition:
India: Maximum City
17 October – 29 December 2007
Catalogue
Group show of Indian contemporary art. Ten or so artists will present their ways of seeing the world within India’s megapoles today, which seem to be without limits.

Noble Sage Gallery, London

The Noble Sage Art Gallery is holding an exciting Asian Literary Evening as part of the Mayor of London’s India Now Festival on 14th September 2007 at 7.30 pm. Celebrated writer, Rohan Candappa (Picklehead), and new author, Jae Watson (The Journey), will be reading extracts from their most recent novels and discussing their key influences as well as describing their own special love for the East. This delightful event will be followed by a Q&A and a book-signing session at the end.
Bodhi Art Gallery, Mumbai
‘Unveiling’, a solo show of Manish Pushkale opened at the Bodhi Art Gallery, Mumbai. Inaugurated on 29th August, the show has the latest paintings of the artist. The show will be on till 28th September 2007.
Prajakta Palav at Kitab Mahal and Vadehra
Noted young artist Prajakta Palav will have her solo exhibition at two art centres namely Mumbai and Delhi. In Mumbai the works will be presented at the Kitab Mahal Gallery in September 2007 and in October, Vadehra will bring the same show to New Delhi.