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Changing Tracks
www.artconcerns.com will now have a new approach. Considering the current art scenario, we in artconcerns feel that it is necessary to build up a volume of critical writings on the kinds of art produced during the last four years. Hence, along with our usual content, we would be concentrating on publishing well researched articles from the coming issue onwards. There will be interim updates also. read on »
Vishnu Vilas: An Icon of our Times
Noted young contemporary artist Manjunath Kamth has done an ambitious sculptural installation for the ARCO ’09. Titled ‘Vishnu Vilas’, this sculpture is presented by Gallery Espace, New Delhi. The artist, in this installation, deals with the religio-political tensions of our times, says JohnyML read on »
Reworking on humanity’s lost and found keys: N S Harsha
‘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 N.S.Harsha. read on »
Renu Modi
Writer and curator, Anubhav R Nath, met with veteran gallerist, Renu Modi of Gallery Espace, who started her art journey in 1989. They met at her Delhi residence – a very unique home. A living museum, distinguished as the only house to be ever-designed by MF Husain. Not only did Nath get an insight into Modi’s home, routine and work, but also got to know about the luminaries who have guided her in this twenty year journey. He was treated to an extensive Marwari lunch on a sunny winter afternoon; but not as warm as Modi’s hospitality.. read on »
Sumesh Kamballur
Born in Kasargode, a northern district in Kerala, Sumesh Kamballur got his initiation in art through ritual and kitsch art. Later he joined the Trivandrum Fine Arts College and obtained BFA in Painting. Currently he is a post graduate student in Kalabhavana, Santiniketan. Sumesh’s paintings take their inspiration from nature, its uses and abuses. He is concerned with the process of globalization and its effects on human life. He likes to weave in mythical episodes to the contemporary aspects of life in his paintings.. more »
Charmi Gada Shah: Enquiry into Architectural Pasts
Born in 1980, Mumbai, Charmi Gada Shah did her fine arts bachelors from the Raheja School of Arts, Mumbai and post graduation in fine arts from Chelsea College of Art, London. She has a special interest in old architectures and the histories that connect them to the present. She writes about her two projects that she did last year during her residency in Kashi Art Gallery, Kochi. more »
Mirrored Reality with Cognitive Images
Veteran artist Jeram Patel’s latest set of wooden and steel sculptures will be presented in Delhi’s Sridharani Art Gallery on 6th February 2009 by Art Home Gallery, Baroda. In this suite of sculptures, Jeram Patel explores the experiences that are akin to the nuances of the epic, Mahabharata, says art critic and Patel’s life long friend, Prayag Shukla . more »
9/11: A Two Dimensional Picture
Contemporary art and folk art have certain fundamental differences. However, they work according to certain ‘patterns that connect’. How do they approach a contemporary subject matter visually and address a larger audience? Young art historian Bipin Balachandran makes an enquiry into these issues by citing a patua painting on the September 11 issue. more »
Brick by Brick We Build the People
‘The People’, a two persons’ show of Josh PS and Puja Puri, curated by JohnyML is currently on at the Shrine Empire Gallery, New Delhi. Representation of people in visual art always comes with ideological underpinnings. In this curatorial essay, JohnyML debates this problem of representation . more »
Rudiments of Earth
The ideological climes that set the milieu for the artists Sebastian Varghese and Leon K.L are different. But they have a common approach to the issues of nature and earth. Renu Ramanath features the characteristics of their work,s which are currently shown at the Threshold Gallery, New Delhi. more »
Cry Freedom
Thiruvannamalai based artist, Gayatri Gamuz has been working on the issue of dispossession and exploitation of children, people, animals and forests by powers that are all over the world. In her present suite of paintings she raises a political critique using subtle and tender symbolic images. JohnyML features her latest series of paintings. more »
The Rhythmic Essence
Veteran artist Jeram Patel has come out with a set of steel and wood sculptures after a long gap of forty years. Baroda based gallery, Art Home presents these works in a show titled ‘Untitled’ at the Sridharani Gallery, Delhi. JohnyML features the artist and the works. more »
Mapping The Neural Networks of Civilisation
Triva Contemporary Gallery, Trivandrum recently presented a solo show of Sajith A.S, titled ‘A Terrain Named Diamond White’. His paintings follow and map the neural networks of our civilization, one that is simultaneously inside and outside, says writer C.S.Venkiteswaran. more »
Relative VisA or Relatives’ Visa?
Noted artist Bose Krishnamachari recently curated a group show titled ‘Relative VisA’ at Bodhi Art Gallery, Mumbai. The show is an attempt to bring together various streams of creative expressions, mainly pitching on architecture and design. JohnyML visits the show and say that curatorially this show fails to take off. more »
Art Routes- Roads Taken but Forgotten
Art Home presents
Wood and Steel works by
Jeram Patel
at Sridharani Gallery, New Delhi
6 -15 February 2009
The People
Josh PS & Puja Puri
Curated by JohnyML
at the
Shrine Empire Gallery
New Delhi
14th January 2009