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From the Concerns Desk
April cannot be the cruelest of months. This is spring time for Indian contemporary art. March gave us further indications that April is going to be there with full of blooms. more »
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Cover story
Art Dubai: Optimism Unbound
India Shining by Debanjan Roy
The recently concluded Art Dubai (formerly called The Dubai Art Fair) celebrated art from the South East Asian region. India now being the hot destination, Indian contemporary art got an extra focus in this fair. Delhi based art writer and curator Anubhav Nath files a comprehensive story on the fair from Dubai. read on » |
UP CLOSE & PERSONAL
Gopikrishna
 ‘Up close and personal’ is a shared diagram locating lives of significant figures in Contemporary Indian Art over the last four decades. The locus of this diagram is drafted through first person accounts, situations, art works, projects, events, texts, issues, people, cultures and geographies thereby trying to articulate an ‘artistic context’ that is simultaneously personal and historical. Kavita Balakrishnan, here portrays the life and artistic philosophy of the much acclaimed artist Gopikrishna. more» |
Spring Board
Poorna Rajpal
 Born in New Delhi, Poorna Rajpal had her formal education in fine arts from Edexel (Distant Learning) UK and took her graduation in visual arts from Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore in 2006. Poorna experiments with a variety of mediums and her installations done in acrylic cast brought her critical acclamation. more »
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Offbeat
Sandra Miranda Pattin: Celebrating Art in Participation
Colombian artist Sandra Miranda Pattin, currently residing in Italy, would like to call herself a mixed media artist. She works in several mediums and her works have found their way to international biennales and art fairs. As an acclaimed performance artist, Sandra Miranda writes about her aesthetics and working process. more »
Rebuilding the Babel Tower
Hyderabad based young artist, Sujith SN speaks about his latest work, ‘Let us build ourselves a city and a tower in its top of Heaven’. He says that, through this work he seeks the possibilities of rebuilding a lost dream; the hope of universal humanity. more » |
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The Second Sex and the Third Shift
Three shifts; career, home and self/soul, Amrita Gupta Singh says that women are forced to function between these three shifts but in the third shift ‘She’ regresses into guilt and self torture. The author probes into the third shift in women’s life by taking examples from the works of three contemporary women artists namely Surekha, Vidya Kamat and Hema Upadhyay. more »
Contemplative Spaces
Mumbai based Sheetal Ghattani is appreciated for her vibrant abstract paintings. For her abstraction is not about formlessness. It is all about reality of the present. Dr.Ashrafi Bhagat goes through the works of the artist and says why her works impart the viewer with a feeling of uniqueness. more »
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Art as Entrepreneurship: Tukral and Tagra
India’s latest art brand ‘Tukral and Tagra’ (T&T) had their exclusive show at the Credit Suisse Art and Entrepreneurship during Art Dubai. Art entrepreneur and writer Ashwini Pai Bahadur catches up with T&T in Dubai and engage them in an interesting conversation. Excerpts »
Tales of our Times
Delhi based young painter Varunika Saraf is currently having her solo show titled ‘Tales of Our Times’ at the Kashi Gallery, Kochi. Art writer Renu Ramanath speaks to the artist about her formative days and the current phase of works. Excerpts »
Fulfilling the Desires
Apurba Nandi is a Baroda based sculptor who experiments with different mediums and doesn’t stagnate over any one medium for long .He started weaving his works in a poetic diction characterized by volume and effulgence. He restored to the language of metaphors and started experimenting with the dictum “less is more”. Aparna Roy catches up with the artist and chats with him. Excerpts »
The Magic is Dead, Long Live Magic
Mumbai based artist, Julius Macwan says that the magic of things died in 2005. He feels that he still holds some powers to evoke the magic of things and his latest solo show at the Stainless Gallery, New Delhi, titled ‘Death of Magic’ is an attempt to evoke the magic of things. Ashwini Pai Bahadur in conversation with the artist. Excerpts »
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Of Religion, Representation, Politics and other things
Representing religion in art has become a contentious issue in our contemporary times. A students’ seminar organized in Kalabhavan, Santiniketan discussed this volatile issue in an effective way. Oindrilla Maity reports from Santiniketan. more »
Staging the Sets
Shubhalakshmi Shukla takes a look at the works of Mumbai based artist Bharti Kapadia and says that in her works she is conscious of her identity as often she weaves in mythical stories in personalized form in her chosen idiom, but at the same time she wants her forms to remain ambiguous and open to interpretations. more »
Huesdays for Delhi Art Lovers
India Times Art, a sister concerns of the Times of India Group recently started a monthly art program named ‘Huesday’. Huesday happens on the last Thursday of every month in Delhi. Huesday is an occasion to pick and choose the works of art you like. A report »
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The AF-FAIR With Dubai
The AFFAIR, a group show curated by Bose Krishnamachari at the 1x1 Art Gallery, Dubai was an interesting take on the body, city and human memory. Shubhalakshmi Shukla, after visiting the show in Dubai, says that the works of different artists featured exemplify how the abandoned objects find voice and articulation through the hands of artists. more »
Liminal Spaces
He wants to be called as ‘Doors Santhanam’ and his paintings are infested with the imageries of doors; he is Santhana Krishnan, a Chennai based young artist. Dr.Ashrafi Bhagat visits his recent exhibition in Chennai and comes out with the following observations. more »
Skeptical Juxtapositions
A group show of ten Kerala based artists, curated by noted art historian R.Nandakumar was presented by the Apparao Galleries in New Delhi. Unlike the artists working from the metropolitan cities, these artists still look at the fast growing corporatism with skepticism and doubt, observes JohnyML more »
The Gods must be crazy
Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai recently presented a series of photographic works by Nandini Valli Muthiah. Art writer Kanchi Mehta, while going through the works, imagines a world of distressed gods. She posits Nandini’s works in a realm where the bizarre is critiqued with compassion and fun. more »
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