The Big City Blues
Chennai based artist, Pradeep Cherian recently had a solo show with the Apparao Galleries. Pradeep’s works are inspired by the angst of the contemporary man destined to live in city crowds. Undeniably Pradeep’s visual language has the potency to make the viewer reflect philosophically on questions of existence and questions of freedom, says Dr. Ashrafi S.Bhagat. more »
Possible Articulations
Noted artist Valsan Koorma Kolleri always has quirky titles for his solos and shows curated by him. The quirkiness leads to linguistic restructuring. Surya Singh, using the Lacanian reading of the works presented in ‘Artequalated’, a show conceptualized by Valsan says that we often look back and driven by a desire of union with the mother, native place and the region where we spent our childhood and recognize ourselves as “I’ subject. more »
Projections from Partition
The new space of Chatterjee and Lal Gallery in Mumbai was inaugurated with a solo show of Sophie Ernst. Born in Holland, Sophie Ernst has lived between several countries and found her aesthetic interest in India and Pakistan. Kanchi Mehta visits the video installations of Ernst and ruminates on the works. more »
Desire and Death as Landscapes
Atul Bhalla’s engagement with the river Yamuna and the global water politics has resulted into a set of installations and video works. Recently he re-presented the works in Mumbai’s Project 88. Shubhalakshmi Shukla catches with the artist and the works and delineates how the artist generates a visual critique of the water politics. more »
Freedom Song
Kolkata’s Aakriti Art Gallery celebrates the 60 years of Indian Independence with a show of forty artists. Oindrilla Maity scans through each work presented in the show and asks why still our artists need images from the western art history for articulating the issues of freedom and its aftermath. more »
The Toxic and Devouring Tree
Akansha Rastogi concentrates on a single sculptural work titled ‘Solarum Species’ by Bharti Kher, recently presented in her solo show, ‘Absence of an Assignable Cause’ at Nature Morte, New Delhi and explains why this is a pivotal work in the artist’s career more »
The other within
Kochi, the art hub of Kerala witnessed the opening of a new gallery, Gallery OED on 17th August. The inaugural show ‘The Double’ curated by JohnyML is a welcoming change in the art scene of Kerala, says Kavitha Balakrishnan. She finds the show a bit image ridden but argues that the works present characteristically de-signing acts of the young minds from many locally shared premises of life. more »
Flames and Flowers
The recent solo show of Surekha at the Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai brings into picture the whole gamut of materials and visual forms that can surface the hidden sensual aspect of relationship between body and it surroundings, says Shubhalakshmi Shukla more »
You Shall Remain Hidden
The recent semi retrospective show of the noted artist Amitava Das at Gallery Espace, New Delhi invokes the feelings of a simulacrum in Surya Singh. Analyzing the works of Amitava from 1970s to till date, the author tries to capture the creative spirit that intoxicates the artist to indulge in his drawings. more »
Prolonging it for Added Pleasure
Sanjeev Khandekar’s recent twin shows in Mumbai come out as a critique of the finanialized society. JohnyML looks at his works and says how the artist brings out the pornographic pleasure of the society in his works. more »
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