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Rameshwar Broota at Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
Sakshi Gallery in collaboration with Vadehra Art Gallery presents recent photographs by Rameshwar Broota, one of India’s most versatile leading contemporary artists. The show opens on 31st Jan’08 and will be on view till 16th Feb’08.
Rameshwar Broota uses the radical potential of digital photography to achieve transmuted photographs which blend seamlessly into exceptional and at times grotesque surrealistic images.
He uses his photographic imagery primarily as a means of self knowledge which also operates at the level of a wider cultural critique. Broota’s photographs are revealed as, not only recorder of ‘objective’ reality but as an exploration device of a ‘subjective’ experience, thus reinforcing that the artist’s body can be both the subject and object of the photograph.
Kakoli Sen’s Reverie in New Delhi
| Gallery Beyond, Mumbai presents the Baroda based artist Kakoli Sen’s solo show ‘Reverie’ in Delhi’s Gallerie Romain Rolland, Alliance Fracaise de Delhi. The show opens on 1st February 2008 and will be on view till 5th February 2008. |
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Jonathan Napack’s Anthology Released
Asia Art Archive hosted the launching of AIRPLANES AND PARACHUTES: A JONATHAN NAPACK ANTHOLOGY, the collection of texts on contemporary art by the late journalist and Art Basel Asia Advisor Jonathan Napack (1967-2007) on Thursday, January 31 in the Archive's Laboratory. The launch featured a presentation by Philip Tinari, editor of the volume, which is published by Art Basel.
This anthology includes more than forty texts originally published in venues including The International Herald Tribune, The New York Times Magazine, The Art Newspaper, Art in America, and Flash Art, and in catalogues of exhibitions including "Cities on the Move." The book compiles Napack's pioneering reportage and criticism on contemporary art in Asia - and particularly China - written during the decade from 1997 to 2007 when Napack lived in Hong Kong. Also included are several of Napack's best-known texts from the early years he spent as an art journalist in New York, and a selection of his culinary writings from the Asian Wall Street Journal. With all texts published in both in English and Chinese, the anthology marks the first time that many of Napack's writings on China will be readable by their subjects.
Binu Bhaskar’s ‘Di-Stance’ at Bodhi,Travancore Palace
Delhi-Mumbai based photography artist, Binu Bhaskar will have his first major solo show in Delhi on 5th February 2008. Titled ‘Di-Stance’, the show is hosted by Bodhi Art Gallery at Travancore Palace, Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi. The show will be on view till 29th February 2008.
Time and Material at Stainless Art Gallery
Aakriti Art Gallery & Art Konsult present Time & Material; a group exhibition of more than 70 sculptures embracing the ubiquitous human form by forty leading Indian sculptors at The Stainless Gallery, New Delhi from February 01, 2008 to February 08, 2008.
The participating artists includes Akhil Chandra Das, Aku, Amaresh Kumar, Anil Sen, Asim Basu, Apurba Nandi, Anuj Kumar Poddar, Bimal Kundu, Chandan Bhandari, Chinthala Jagdish, S.Gopinath, Goutam Das, Jayanta Paul, Janak Jhankar Narzary, Jehangir Jani, Kanta Kishore Moharana, Kishore Chakraborty, K.S. Radhakrishnan, Mukulendu Pathak, Nilima, P.Rajivanayan, Pankaj Panwar, Partha Dasgupta, Pijush Patra, Rajender Tiku, Ratilal Kansodaria, Sandip Chakraborty, Shanta Samanta, Shiv Verma, Shyamal Roy, Subrata Biswas, Sujit Kumar Karan, Sutanu Chatterjee, Sunanda Das, Sunil Kumar Das, Suvadeep Das, Tapas Biswas, Tapan Kumar Das, Vinod Patel, Yogesh Mahida.
Rajendra Dhawan at Bodhi, Gurgaon
Bodhi Art Gallery, Delhi/Gurgaon presents the noted painter Rajendra Dhawan in a solo show. The show opens on 29th January 2008 and will be on view till 25th February 2008.
Suhasini Kejriwal at Chemould Prescott, Mumbai
Chemould Prescott Road presents An Advertisement for heaven or hell - II", an exhibition of recent paintings and installations by Suhasini Kejriwal. The show opens on 19th February 2008 and will be on view till 14th march 2008.
In her recent works, Kejriwal has drawn upon the dark yet playful humour that she finds in the work of some of the surrealists. Unconscious associations and startling juxtapositions that transcend habitual thinking to reveal deeper and alternate levels of meaning emerge in the work. Particularly interested in the quirky, Kejriwal's work often reminds one of the more contemporary stories of British children's writer Roald Dahl.
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