tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27093961437211114922024-03-14T09:37:06.150-07:00Art Blogazine: E-News Magazine updateThe Art E-News Magazine of India and independent art critic, curator, translator and Creative writing includes ...Art Blogazinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05784762999278115873noreply@blogger.comBlogger660125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2709396143721111492.post-64486645303072867152024-03-14T09:36:00.000-07:002024-03-14T09:36:19.873-07:00Anatomize by Nibha Sikander Booth 3D33 | Art Basel Hong Kong 2023<p> <a href="https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/2024/03/05/anatomize-by-nibha-sikander-booth-3d33-art-basel-hong-kong-2023/" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Syne, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify; text-decoration-line: none;">March 5, 2024</a></p><div class="post-thumbnail" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #393e46; font-family: Syne, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><img alt="" class="attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image" decoding="async" height="596" sizes="(max-width: 761px) 100vw, 761px" src="https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/tarq.jpg" srcset="https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/tarq.jpg 761w, https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/tarq-300x235.jpg 300w" style="border-style: none; box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="761" /></div><div class="entry-content" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #393e46; counter-reset: footnotes 0; font-family: Syne, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 1.5em 0px 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--font-base); margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;">About Anatomize Nibha Sikander’s artworks showcasing detailed representations of moths and birds are the artist’s attempt at a pointed confrontation of the violence we have exerted upon other species of our planet.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--font-base); margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"> In Anatomize, Sikander draws from a desire to elevate the level of deconstruction and abstraction that she had showcased in her last series, Wandering Violin Mantis. Moving away from anatomically accurate replicas of moths, the artist has made one major change in her work, by enlarging their forms. This allows her to study and analyse them in greater detail. Her arrangement of these details is influenced by the specimen-like presentation of taxidermy in museums. However, in this series Sikander’s methodical layout of the fragments of the species depicted appears closer to an imaginary script solidifying her position at the intersection of science, craft, and art.</p><figure class="wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex" style="--wp--style--unstable-gallery-gap: var( --wp--style--gallery-gap-default, var( --gallery-block--gutter-size, var( --wp--style--block-gap, 0.5em ) ) ); align-items: normal; box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: var( --wp--style--gallery-gap-default, var( --gallery-block--gutter-size, var( --wp--style--block-gap, 0.5em ) ) ); margin: 1em 0px;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="align-self: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; position: relative; width: 993.45px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-4644" data-id="4644" decoding="async" height="690" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" src="https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Deconstructed-Crimson-Underwing-Thyas-1024x690.jpg" srcset="https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Deconstructed-Crimson-Underwing-Thyas-1024x690.jpg 1024w, https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Deconstructed-Crimson-Underwing-Thyas-300x202.jpg 300w, https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Deconstructed-Crimson-Underwing-Thyas-768x517.jpg 768w" style="border-style: none; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; flex: 1 0 0%; height: 669.412px; max-width: 100%; object-fit: cover; vertical-align: bottom; width: 993.45px;" width="1024" /></figure></figure><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--font-base); margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;">As described by curator Roobina Karode, Sikander’s works “are manifestations of the artist’s entomological interest that seeks not to dissect, but to deconstruct the received notions of natural history.” Working exclusively with paper Sikander succeeds in creating a world that invites the viewer in closer, almost as if through a magnifying glass. According to her, paper mimics nature in its versatility – soft, stiff, malleable and flexible, almost like wings, feathers and antennae – allowing her to mould it to her will.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--font-base); margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bolder;">About the Artist</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--font-base); margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;">Nibha Sikander earned her Bachelors (2006) and Masters (2008) in Visual Arts from the Maharaja Sayajirao University, Vadodara.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--font-base); margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;">In 2019, Nibha had her first solo exhibition, Wandering Violin Mantis at TARQ. Since her graduation, she has been part of several group exhibitions, some of which include The Inner Life of Things: Around Anatomies and Armatures at the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, Noida (2022); ALCHEMY: Explorations in Indigo, Kasturbhai Lalbhai</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--font-base); margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;">Museum, Ahmedabad (2019); Beyond Borders, curated by the CONA Foundation at the Whitworth Gallery/Museum, Manchester, England (2017-18); A New Space, Nazar Art Gallery, Vadodara (2016); Back to College, VADFEST, Faculty of Fine Arts, Vadodara (2015); A Construal of Mourning and Rage, Emami Chisel Art, Kolkata (2014); Group show at Studio X, as part of the Paradise Lodge International Artist Residency, Mumbai (2013); Beauty and the Beast, Matthieu Foss Gallery, curated by Anne Maniglier, Mumbai, (2011); Show Girls!, Strand Art Room Gallery, curated by Anne Maniglier, Mumbai (2009); From our Cabinets to the Museum, Open Eyed Dreams Gallery, curated by Aparna Roy, Kochi (2009); and Class of 2008, Art Konsult Gallery, curated by Bhavna Khakkar, New Delhi (2008-09).</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--font-base); margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;">Museum, Ahmedabad (2019); Beyond Borders, curated by the CONA Foundation at the Whitworth Gallery/Museum, Manchester, England (2017-18); A New Space, Nazar Art Gallery, Vadodara (2016); Back to College, VADFEST, Faculty of Fine Arts, Vadodara (2015); A Construal of Mourning and Rage, Emami Chisel Art, Kolkata (2014); Group show at Studio X, as part of the Paradise Lodge International Artist Residency, Mumbai (2013); Beauty and the Beast, Matthieu Foss Gallery, curated by Anne Maniglier, Mumbai, (2011); Show Girls!, Strand Art Room Gallery, curated by Anne Maniglier, Mumbai (2009); From our Cabinets to the Museum, Open Eyed Dreams Gallery, curated by Aparna Roy, Kochi (2009); and Class of 2008, Art Konsult Gallery, curated by Bhavna Khakkar, New Delhi (2008-09).</p><figure class="wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex" style="--wp--style--unstable-gallery-gap: var( --wp--style--gallery-gap-default, var( --gallery-block--gutter-size, var( --wp--style--block-gap, 0.5em ) ) ); align-items: normal; box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: var( --wp--style--gallery-gap-default, var( --gallery-block--gutter-size, var( --wp--style--block-gap, 0.5em ) ) ); margin: 1em 0px;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="align-self: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; position: relative; width: 993.45px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-4648" data-id="4648" decoding="async" height="469" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" src="https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Emerald-Dove-1-1024x469.jpg" srcset="https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Emerald-Dove-1-1024x469.jpg 1024w, https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Emerald-Dove-1-300x137.jpg 300w, https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Emerald-Dove-1-768x352.jpg 768w" style="border-style: none; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; flex: 1 0 0%; height: 455px; max-width: 100%; object-fit: cover; vertical-align: bottom; width: 993.45px;" width="1024" /></figure></figure><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--font-base); margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--font-base); margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;">She has taken part in residencies like Paradise Lodge International Artist Residency, Lonavala, Mumbai (November 2013); Sandarbh International Artists Residency Programme, Jaipur (November 2012); and Residency at the American School of Bombay, Mumbai (March – May 2010).</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--font-base); margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;">She is the recipient of the Nasreen Mohamedi Scholarship, Maharaja Sayajirao University, Vadodara, 2004-2005. She recently participated in India Art Fair 2020 in Delhi. Nibha currently works and lives in Murud-Janjira and Mumbai</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--font-base); margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bolder;">About TARQ</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--font-base); margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;">TARQ was founded in 2014 by Hena Kapadia on the values of creating a meaningful conversation around art and its myriad connotations and contexts. It was envisioned as somet hing of a laboratory – an incubator for young contemporary artists which would work towards pushing the boundaries of how contemporary art in India is exhibited and perceived. TARQ’s youthful and experimental ethos encourages collectors, novice and seasoned alike, to approach art collecting through a perspective that marries thoughtfulness with an inquisitive eye for aesthetics and artistic processes.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--font-base); margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;">Since its conception, TARQ has endeavoured to create a robust outreach program that ties in with the gallery’s exhibitions and overall raison d’être. The program is an amalgam of educational initiatives in the form of workshops, gallery walk-throughs and talks. Our intention is to engage with a diverse audience to develop an informed viewership for contemporary art in the future</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--font-base); margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bolder;">TARQ</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--font-base); margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;">KK (Navsari) Chambers, Ground Floor, 39B AK Nayak Marg, Fort, Mumbai 400001, 022-66150424</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--font-base); margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;">Tuesday – Saturday: 11:00am – 6:30pm</p><div class="heateorSssClear" style="box-sizing: inherit; clear: both;"></div><div class="heateor_sss_sharing_container heateor_sss_horizontal_sharing" data-heateor-sss-href="https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/2024/03/05/anatomize-by-nibha-sikander-booth-3d33-art-basel-hong-kong-2023/" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="heateor_sss_sharing_title" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bold;">Spread the love, Art Blogazine</div></div></div>Art Blogazinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05784762999278115873noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2709396143721111492.post-22987912578064525692024-03-14T09:29:00.000-07:002024-03-14T09:29:41.605-07:00 Women’s Day Special: Sunny Chandiramani, Senior Vice President, Client Relations at AstaGuru Auction House<header class="entry-header" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #393e46; font-family: Syne, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-top: 10px;"><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; color: var(--clr-text); font-size: var(--font-large); line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px;"><br /></h1></header><div class="post-thumbnail" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #393e46; font-family: Syne, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><img alt="" class="attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image" decoding="async" height="1967" sizes="(max-width: 1795px) 100vw, 1795px" src="https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Sunny-Chandiramani.jpg" srcset="https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Sunny-Chandiramani.jpg 1795w, https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Sunny-Chandiramani-274x300.jpg 274w, https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Sunny-Chandiramani-934x1024.jpg 934w, https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Sunny-Chandiramani-768x842.jpg 768w, https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Sunny-Chandiramani-1402x1536.jpg 1402w" style="border-style: none; box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="1795" /></div><div class="entry-content" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #393e46; counter-reset: footnotes 0; font-family: Syne, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 1.5em 0px 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--font-base); margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;">Sunny Chandiramani has been part of AstaGuru for over a decade, actively participating in more than 50 auctions. Her extensive experience goes beyond just understanding the significance of each artwork; she possesses a deep knowledge of market fundamentals and data, making her a seasoned professional in the field. Established in 2008, AstaGuru was founded with the mission of creating a secure and reliable platform for online auctions. The name “AstaGuru” is a deliberate fusion of the Italian term “Asta,” meaning auction, and a Sanskrit word signifying “master,” reflecting our exceptional expertise in auctioneering art and treasures in India.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--font-base); margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;">AstaGuru has evolved, conducting curated auctions across various categories such as heirloom jewellery, silver, and timepieces over the years. Sunny reflects on her time at AstaGuru, expressing gratitude for the significant learning and growth opportunities. She emphasises the satisfaction derived from curating each auction catalogue, providing her with a deeper understanding of the artistic evolution of numerous renowned artists who have left a lasting impact on the modern Indian art scene.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--font-base); margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bolder;">1. What is it like to be a Woman Leader in an Auction House?</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--font-base); margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;">It’s a very proud feeling. However, what makes me happier is that women are playing important roles in almost every department at AstaGuru. Whether it is a forefront role such as client relations and auction curation or working behind the scenes in departments such as Restoration, Marketing or Content, women are integral to the overall functioning of AstaGuru. While I am of the view that success and achievements should not be analysed from the standpoint of gender, it makes me truly ecstatic that AstaGuru takes the spirit of gender equality very seriously and has been a staunch advocate of the same. Our CEO, Mr. Tushar Sethi, is to be credited for this as he has been a consistent source of inspiration and encouragement to each one of us through the years.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--font-base); margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bolder;">2. Could Sunny share her story of leading 50+ successful auctions and highlight key elements contributing to her success in this competitive environment?</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--font-base); margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;">Since joining AstaGuru in 2013, my experience has been incredibly rewarding as I delved into the intricate details of Modern Indian Art. Transitioning from a non-art background, my journey has involved a significant learning curve. Whether it’s recognising milestones achieved by revered Indian modernists or studying the overall evolution of Modern Indian Art, I’ve engaged in continuous exploration, research, and learning to cultivate a keen eye for the auction industry. Each auction has contributed to my growing confidence.</p><figure class="wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex" style="--wp--style--unstable-gallery-gap: var( --wp--style--gallery-gap-default, var( --gallery-block--gutter-size, var( --wp--style--block-gap, 0.5em ) ) ); align-items: normal; box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: var( --wp--style--gallery-gap-default, var( --gallery-block--gutter-size, var( --wp--style--block-gap, 0.5em ) ) ); margin: 1em 0px;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="align-self: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; position: relative; width: 993.45px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-4663" data-id="4663" decoding="async" height="1024" sizes="(max-width: 712px) 100vw, 712px" src="https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Amrita-Sher-Gil-712x1024.jpg" srcset="https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Amrita-Sher-Gil-712x1024.jpg 712w, https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Amrita-Sher-Gil-208x300.jpg 208w, https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Amrita-Sher-Gil-768x1105.jpg 768w, https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Amrita-Sher-Gil-1067x1536.jpg 1067w, https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Amrita-Sher-Gil-1423x2048.jpg 1423w, https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Amrita-Sher-Gil-scaled.jpg 1779w" style="border-style: none; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; flex: 1 0 0%; height: 1429.38px; max-width: 100%; object-fit: cover; vertical-align: bottom; width: 993.45px;" width="712" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: linear-gradient(0deg, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7), rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3) 70%, transparent); background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; bottom: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; flex-basis: 100%; flex-grow: 1; font-size: 13px; left: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; max-height: 60%; overflow: auto; padding: 0px 8px 8px; position: absolute; text-align: center; width: 993.45px;">Artist: Amrita Sher-Gil</figcaption></figure></figure><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--font-base); margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bolder;">3. How does Sunny view the evolving roles of women in the Artworld from an industry perspective, and in what ways are they inspiring others?</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--font-base); margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;">The past few decades have played a crucial role in elevating the recognition of women in the art world. Women artists have left a lasting impact with grand retrospectives at esteemed institutions sparking a surge of interest in the artistic achievements of Indian women. Notable examples include Arpita Singh’s retrospective, ‘Six Decades of Painting,’ at the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art in New Delhi and Nalini Malani’s retrospective at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, both earning consistent critical acclaim. The art market has witnessed remarkable auction results for works by women artists, prompting the collector community to take notice and acknowledge their mastery. These triumphs signify a significant shift in the Indian art market, recognising and honouring women artists with the recognition they have long deserved.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--font-base); margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;">Esteemed contemporary artists such as Anju Dodiya and Bharti Kher have also received praise for their distinctive works and practices, echoing the recognition seen in various aspects of the Indian art world. Whether in the roles of collectors, bidders, gallerists, art writers, or critics, women are shattering the glass ceiling on a global scale. The trend continues in the auction industry, where women actively contribute to various facets of auction house operations. Their involvement extends to outstanding curation and restoration work, as well as supporting departments like Logistics, Marketing, PR, and Content, showcasing the diverse and impactful roles women play in shaping the art landscape.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--font-base); margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bolder;">4. What are Sunny Chandiramani’s top 3 favourite Women Artists, and what qualities in these artists does she find inspiring?</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--font-base); margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;">My choice would be Amrita Sher-Gil, as she undeniably stands as one of the preeminent avant-garde women artists of the early 20th century, credited with single-handedly elevating Indian art onto the global stage. Even after eight decades since her untimely passing in 1941, she remains the focal point of numerous auctions and exhibitions showcasing Indian art. Another artist I deeply appreciate is Meera Mukherjee, celebrated for her distinctive creations. Her artistic journey featured innovative bronze casting techniques, and she played a pivotal role in refining traditional Dhokra style sculpture by incorporating lost-wax casting methods, acquired during her time among artisans in the Bastar region of central India. I’m also an avid admirer of Arpita Singh’s work. With a unique style and technique, each of her compositions narrates its own story. I particularly value her exploration and presentation of women’s lives, weaving a complex tapestry drawn from diverse sources, including personal experiences, mythology, fiction, and Bengali folklore.</p><figure class="wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex" style="--wp--style--unstable-gallery-gap: var( --wp--style--gallery-gap-default, var( --gallery-block--gutter-size, var( --wp--style--block-gap, 0.5em ) ) ); align-items: normal; box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: var( --wp--style--gallery-gap-default, var( --gallery-block--gutter-size, var( --wp--style--block-gap, 0.5em ) ) ); margin: 1em 0px;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="align-self: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; position: relative; width: 993.45px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-4664" data-id="4664" decoding="async" height="561" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" src="https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Meera-Mukherjee-Dancing-Baul-1024x561.jpg" srcset="https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Meera-Mukherjee-Dancing-Baul-1024x561.jpg 1024w, https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Meera-Mukherjee-Dancing-Baul-300x164.jpg 300w, https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Meera-Mukherjee-Dancing-Baul-768x421.jpg 768w, https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Meera-Mukherjee-Dancing-Baul-1536x841.jpg 1536w, https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Meera-Mukherjee-Dancing-Baul-2048x1122.jpg 2048w" style="border-style: none; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; flex: 1 0 0%; height: 543.925px; max-width: 100%; object-fit: cover; vertical-align: bottom; width: 993.45px;" width="1024" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: linear-gradient(0deg, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7), rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3) 70%, transparent); background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; bottom: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; flex-basis: 100%; flex-grow: 1; font-size: 13px; left: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; max-height: 60%; overflow: auto; padding: 0px 8px 8px; position: absolute; text-align: center; width: 993.45px;">Meera Mukherjee – Dancing Baul</figcaption></figure></figure><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--font-base); margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bolder;">5. Finally, what advice does Sunny have for the next generation of Women aiming to make an impact in the Artworld? How can they navigate challenges and build successful careers in this dynamic industry?</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--font-base); margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;">The Indian art scene thrives with a multitude of artists, each possessing a unique visual language. Engaging with various mediums, these artists continually explore, pushing the boundaries of traditional art definitions. My advice to all, including women artists, is to remain authentic in your artistic expression and maintain an open mindset towards continuous learning. 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Jogen Chowdhary / Tapas Konar / Jatin Das / Chandra Bhattacharyya / Riyas Komu More then 300 artists around the world<p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgue0HcIrby0hKzq9jlRyFfiYIfVK8Ggzo3tnJ6yhbvDhNAyehDvN_5ShvlJqJHUfkz5J4VETJKmuE77e9VawDCrvFlyr_yWXKx9RPGv1Rs0u2obNkte-4SYExqW6QNnkbsrWS4qe4Vfm5Q5yOYIZTffJqQUDu2BO0TIvprZR1zJQmrCTNCbe_AvavakVY/s3385/srabani%20sarkar.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3385" data-original-width="2704" height="788" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgue0HcIrby0hKzq9jlRyFfiYIfVK8Ggzo3tnJ6yhbvDhNAyehDvN_5ShvlJqJHUfkz5J4VETJKmuE77e9VawDCrvFlyr_yWXKx9RPGv1Rs0u2obNkte-4SYExqW6QNnkbsrWS4qe4Vfm5Q5yOYIZTffJqQUDu2BO0TIvprZR1zJQmrCTNCbe_AvavakVY/w630-h788/srabani%20sarkar.jpg" width="630" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table></p><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="5covr" data-offset-key="2fdh4-0-0" style="background-color: white; 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color: #393e46; font-size: 16px; margin-top: 10px;"><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; color: var(--clr-text); font-size: var(--font-large); line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></h1></header><div class="post-thumbnail" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #393e46; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img alt="" class="attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image" decoding="async" height="730" sizes="(max-width: 1102px) 100vw, 1102px" src="https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Adam-Pendleton.jpg" srcset="https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Adam-Pendleton.jpg 1102w, https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Adam-Pendleton-300x199.jpg 300w, https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Adam-Pendleton-1024x678.jpg 1024w, https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Adam-Pendleton-768x509.jpg 768w" style="border-style: none; box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="1102" /></span></div><div class="entry-content" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #393e46; counter-reset: footnotes 0; font-size: 16px; margin: 1.5em 0px 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--font-base); margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Pace is pleased to present <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">An Abstraction</em>, an exhibition of recent paintings and drawings by New York-based artist Adam Pendleton, at its 540 West 25th Street gallery in New York from May 3 to June 20.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--font-base); margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Pendleton’s first solo show at Pace’s New York gallery in ten years, <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">An Abstraction</em> follows a series of significant solo exhibitions by the artist at museums around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2021; the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in 2022; and mumok, Vienna in 2023. The return to his home city marks a continuation of his career-long project of creating spaces of engagement and “fighting for the right to exist in and through abstraction.”</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--font-base); margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Pendleton’s work indexes and documents the physical process of painting to create layered pictorial fields that—in their painterly, psychic, and verbal expressions—announce a new mode of visual composition for the 21st century. He is guided by a visual and structural philosophy he has termed “Black Dada,” an ongoing inquiry into Blackness and its relationship to abstraction and conceptions of the avant-garde. Investigating Blackness as a color and theoretical proposition, the artist’s work reflects a contrapuntal understanding of the world in both sensorial and conceptual terms.</span></p><figure class="wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex" style="--wp--style--unstable-gallery-gap: var( --wp--style--gallery-gap-default, var( --gallery-block--gutter-size, var( --wp--style--block-gap, 0.5em ) ) ); align-items: normal; box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: var( --wp--style--gallery-gap-default, var( --gallery-block--gutter-size, var( --wp--style--block-gap, 0.5em ) ) ); margin: 1em 0px;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="align-self: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; position: relative; width: 993.45px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-4637" data-id="4637" decoding="async" height="1024" sizes="(max-width: 805px) 100vw, 805px" src="https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Adam-Pendleton_1-805x1024.jpg" srcset="https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Adam-Pendleton_1-805x1024.jpg 805w, https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Adam-Pendleton_1-236x300.jpg 236w, https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Adam-Pendleton_1-768x977.jpg 768w, https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Adam-Pendleton_1-1208x1536.jpg 1208w, https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Adam-Pendleton_1.jpg 1590w" style="border-style: none; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; flex: 1 0 0%; height: 1263.19px; max-width: 100%; object-fit: cover; vertical-align: bottom; width: 993.45px;" width="805" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: linear-gradient(0deg, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7), rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3) 70%, transparent); background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; bottom: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; flex-basis: 100%; flex-grow: 1; font-size: 13px; left: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; max-height: 60%; overflow: auto; padding: 0px 8px 8px; position: absolute; text-align: center; width: 993.45px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Above: Adam Pendleton, <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Black Dada (A)</em>, 2023 © Adam Pendleton</span></figcaption></figure></figure><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--font-base); margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">In <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">An Abstraction</em>, the artist’s 12 paintings and 13 drawings will hang within a monumental, site-specific architecture consisting of five black triangular forms. These sculptural walls will reorder the gallery into new, unexpected spaces and extend the visual language of the exhibited works.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--font-base); margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Bringing together the artist’s Black Dada and Untitled (Days) bodies of work, the new paintings and drawings in the exhibition feature a variety of marks—spray painting, stenciled geometric forms, and expressionistic brushstrokes—to blur distinctions between painting, drawing, and photography and propose painting as a documentary and performative act.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--font-base); margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Pendleton’s new Black Dada works imbue his iconic black and white compositions with focused and saturated colors. Each of the paintings and drawings in this body of work bears one or more typographic letters from the phrase “BLACK DADA,” rendered in a sans serif font amid the artist’s gestural marks. Continually transposing and overwriting these two modes of inscription, Pendleton cultivates a living library of his own ever-evolving gestures and processes.</span></p><figure class="wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex" style="--wp--style--unstable-gallery-gap: var( --wp--style--gallery-gap-default, var( --gallery-block--gutter-size, var( --wp--style--block-gap, 0.5em ) ) ); align-items: normal; box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: var( --wp--style--gallery-gap-default, var( --gallery-block--gutter-size, var( --wp--style--block-gap, 0.5em ) ) ); margin: 1em 0px;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="align-self: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; position: relative; width: 993.45px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-4634" data-id="4634" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 764px) 100vw, 764px" src="https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/19-148_AP_JPG_LR.width-2000-764x1024.jpg" srcset="https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/19-148_AP_JPG_LR.width-2000-764x1024.jpg 764w, https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/19-148_AP_JPG_LR.width-2000-224x300.jpg 224w, https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/19-148_AP_JPG_LR.width-2000-768x1030.jpg 768w, https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/19-148_AP_JPG_LR.width-2000.jpg 895w" style="border-style: none; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; flex: 1 0 0%; height: 1332px; max-width: 100%; object-fit: cover; vertical-align: bottom; width: 993.45px;" width="764" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: linear-gradient(0deg, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7), rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3) 70%, transparent); background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; bottom: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; flex-basis: 100%; flex-grow: 1; font-size: 13px; left: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; max-height: 60%; overflow: auto; padding: 0px 8px 8px; position: absolute; text-align: center; width: 993.45px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Adam Pendleton, <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Untitled (WE ARE NOT)</em>, 2019, silkscreen ink on canvas, 96″ × 69″ (243.8 cm × 175.3 cm) © Adam Pendleton</span></figcaption></figure></figure><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--font-base); margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Paintings and drawings from Pendleton’s Untitled (Days) body of work will also be featured in <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">An Abstraction</em>. Using collagist strategies of indexing, daily mark-making, fragmentation, and recombination, these works create a cumulative portrait of the artist’s experimentations in the studio.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--font-base); margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">In spring 2025, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. will present <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Love, Queen</em>, a landmark exhibition of Pendleton’s work that will anchor the institution’s 50th anniversary year.</span></p><h4 class="wp-block-heading" style="box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; color: var(--clr-text); margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">About the Artist</span></h4><figure class="wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-3 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex" style="--wp--style--unstable-gallery-gap: var( --wp--style--gallery-gap-default, var( --gallery-block--gutter-size, var( --wp--style--block-gap, 0.5em ) ) ); align-items: normal; box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: var( --wp--style--gallery-gap-default, var( --gallery-block--gutter-size, var( --wp--style--block-gap, 0.5em ) ) ); margin: 1em 0px;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="align-self: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; position: relative; width: calc(50% - var(--wp--style--unstable-gallery-gap, 16px)*.5);"><img alt="" class="wp-image-4635" data-id="4635" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 820px) 100vw, 820px" src="https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/17-043_AP_JPG.width-1100-820x1024.jpg" srcset="https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/17-043_AP_JPG.width-1100-820x1024.jpg 820w, https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/17-043_AP_JPG.width-1100-240x300.jpg 240w, https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/17-043_AP_JPG.width-1100-768x959.jpg 768w, https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/17-043_AP_JPG.width-1100.jpg 1100w" style="border-style: none; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; flex: 1 0 0%; height: 739.088px; max-width: 100%; object-fit: cover; vertical-align: bottom; width: 492.725px;" width="820" /></figure><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="align-self: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; position: relative; width: calc(50% - var(--wp--style--unstable-gallery-gap, 16px)*.5);"><img alt="" class="wp-image-4636" data-id="4636" decoding="async" height="540" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px" src="https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Pendleton.width-360.jpg" srcset="https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Pendleton.width-360.jpg 360w, https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Pendleton.width-360-200x300.jpg 200w" style="border-style: none; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; flex: 1 0 0%; height: 739.088px; max-width: 100%; object-fit: cover; vertical-align: bottom; width: 492.725px;" width="360" /></figure></figure><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--font-base); margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Born in Richmond, Virginia in 1984, Adam Pendleton completed the Artspace Independent Study Program in Pietrasanta, Italy, in 2002. His work has been featured at major museums around the world, including solo exhibitions at the Baltimore Museum of Art; Le Consortium, Dijon, France; Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston; KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland; and Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, among others.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--font-base); margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bolder;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Adam Pendleton’s work is a reflection of how we increasingly move through and experience the world on a sensorial level—a form of abstraction that, in its painterly, psychic, and verbal expression, announces a new mode of visual composition for the twenty-first century.</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--font-base); margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">It investigates Blackness as a color, an identity, a method, and a political subject—in short, as a multitude. His work also poses questions about the legacy of modernism in the present day, reactivating ideas from historic avant-gardes across mediums and moments in time. Since 2008 he has articulated much of his work through the frame of Black Dada, an evolving inquiry into the relationships between Blackness, abstraction, and the avant-garde. It’s a visual philosophy that confounds the distinctions between legibility and abstraction, past and present, familiar and strange, reminding us that meaning always develops through difference.</span></p><div class="heateorSssClear" style="box-sizing: inherit; clear: both;"></div><div class="heateor_sss_sharing_container heateor_sss_horizontal_sharing" data-heateor-sss-href="https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/2024/02/17/new-york-adam-pendleton-an-abstraction-may-3-jun-20-2024/" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="heateor_sss_sharing_title" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Spread the love</span></div><div class="heateor_sss_sharing_title" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="heateor_sss_sharing_title" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Art blogazine</span></div></div></div>Art Blogazinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05784762999278115873noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2709396143721111492.post-22338464719584651092024-03-05T23:43:00.000-08:002024-03-05T23:43:14.694-08:00Anatomize by Nibha Sikander Booth 3D33 | Art Basel Hong Kong 2023<p><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></p><header class="entry-header" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #393e46; font-size: 16px; margin-top: 10px;"><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; color: var(--clr-text); font-size: var(--font-large); line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></h1></header><div class="entry-meta" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #393e46; font-size: 16px; margin-block: 10px;"><span class="post-date" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-right: 10px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span aria-hidden="true" class="fa fa-calendar-check-o" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; display: var(--fa-display,inline-block); font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: var(--fa-style,900); line-height: 1; margin-right: 6px; text-rendering: auto;"></span><a href="https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/2024/03/05/anatomize-by-nibha-sikander-booth-3d33-art-basel-hong-kong-2023/" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-align: justify; text-decoration-line: none;"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2024-03-05T07:48:55+05:30" style="box-sizing: inherit;">March 5, 2024</time></a></span></span></div><div class="post-thumbnail" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #393e46; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img alt="" class="attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image" decoding="async" height="596" sizes="(max-width: 761px) 100vw, 761px" src="https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/tarq.jpg" srcset="https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/tarq.jpg 761w, https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/tarq-300x235.jpg 300w" style="border-style: none; box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="761" /></span></div><div class="entry-content" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #393e46; counter-reset: footnotes 0; font-size: 16px; margin: 1.5em 0px 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--font-base); margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">About Anatomize Nibha Sikander’s artworks showcasing detailed representations of moths and birds are the artist’s attempt at a pointed confrontation of the violence we have exerted upon other species of our planet.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--font-base); margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> In Anatomize, Sikander draws from a desire to elevate the level of deconstruction and abstraction that she had showcased in her last series, Wandering Violin Mantis. Moving away from anatomically accurate replicas of moths, the artist has made one major change in her work, by enlarging their forms. This allows her to study and analyse them in greater detail. Her arrangement of these details is influenced by the specimen-like presentation of taxidermy in museums. However, in this series Sikander’s methodical layout of the fragments of the species depicted appears closer to an imaginary script solidifying her position at the intersection of science, craft, and art.</span></p><figure class="wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex" style="--wp--style--unstable-gallery-gap: var( --wp--style--gallery-gap-default, var( --gallery-block--gutter-size, var( --wp--style--block-gap, 0.5em ) ) ); align-items: normal; box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: var( --wp--style--gallery-gap-default, var( --gallery-block--gutter-size, var( --wp--style--block-gap, 0.5em ) ) ); margin: 1em 0px;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="align-self: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; position: relative; width: 993.45px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-4644" data-id="4644" decoding="async" height="690" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" src="https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Deconstructed-Crimson-Underwing-Thyas-1024x690.jpg" srcset="https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Deconstructed-Crimson-Underwing-Thyas-1024x690.jpg 1024w, https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Deconstructed-Crimson-Underwing-Thyas-300x202.jpg 300w, https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Deconstructed-Crimson-Underwing-Thyas-768x517.jpg 768w" style="border-style: none; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; flex: 1 0 0%; height: 669.412px; max-width: 100%; object-fit: cover; vertical-align: bottom; width: 993.45px;" width="1024" /></figure></figure><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--font-base); margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">As described by curator Roobina Karode, Sikander’s works “are manifestations of the artist’s entomological interest that seeks not to dissect, but to deconstruct the received notions of natural history.” Working exclusively with paper Sikander succeeds in creating a world that invites the viewer in closer, almost as if through a magnifying glass. According to her, paper mimics nature in its versatility – soft, stiff, malleable and flexible, almost like wings, feathers and antennae – allowing her to mould it to her will.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--font-base); margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bolder;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">About the Artist</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--font-base); margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Nibha Sikander earned her Bachelors (2006) and Masters (2008) in Visual Arts from the Maharaja Sayajirao University, Vadodara.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--font-base); margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">In 2019, Nibha had her first solo exhibition, Wandering Violin Mantis at TARQ. Since her graduation, she has been part of several group exhibitions, some of which include The Inner Life of Things: Around Anatomies and Armatures at the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, Noida (2022); ALCHEMY: Explorations in Indigo, Kasturbhai Lalbhai</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--font-base); margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Museum, Ahmedabad (2019); Beyond Borders, curated by the CONA Foundation at the Whitworth Gallery/Museum, Manchester, England (2017-18); A New Space, Nazar Art Gallery, Vadodara (2016); Back to College, VADFEST, Faculty of Fine Arts, Vadodara (2015); A Construal of Mourning and Rage, Emami Chisel Art, Kolkata (2014); Group show at Studio X, as part of the Paradise Lodge International Artist Residency, Mumbai (2013); Beauty and the Beast, Matthieu Foss Gallery, curated by Anne Maniglier, Mumbai, (2011); Show Girls!, Strand Art Room Gallery, curated by Anne Maniglier, Mumbai (2009); From our Cabinets to the Museum, Open Eyed Dreams Gallery, curated by Aparna Roy, Kochi (2009); and Class of 2008, Art Konsult Gallery, curated by Bhavna Khakkar, New Delhi (2008-09).</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--font-base); margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Museum, Ahmedabad (2019); Beyond Borders, curated by the CONA Foundation at the Whitworth Gallery/Museum, Manchester, England (2017-18); A New Space, Nazar Art Gallery, Vadodara (2016); Back to College, VADFEST, Faculty of Fine Arts, Vadodara (2015); A Construal of Mourning and Rage, Emami Chisel Art, Kolkata (2014); Group show at Studio X, as part of the Paradise Lodge International Artist Residency, Mumbai (2013); Beauty and the Beast, Matthieu Foss Gallery, curated by Anne Maniglier, Mumbai, (2011); Show Girls!, Strand Art Room Gallery, curated by Anne Maniglier, Mumbai (2009); From our Cabinets to the Museum, Open Eyed Dreams Gallery, curated by Aparna Roy, Kochi (2009); and Class of 2008, Art Konsult Gallery, curated by Bhavna Khakkar, New Delhi (2008-09).</span></p><figure class="wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex" style="--wp--style--unstable-gallery-gap: var( --wp--style--gallery-gap-default, var( --gallery-block--gutter-size, var( --wp--style--block-gap, 0.5em ) ) ); align-items: normal; box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: var( --wp--style--gallery-gap-default, var( --gallery-block--gutter-size, var( --wp--style--block-gap, 0.5em ) ) ); margin: 1em 0px;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="align-self: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; position: relative; width: 993.45px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-4648" data-id="4648" decoding="async" height="469" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" src="https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Emerald-Dove-1-1024x469.jpg" srcset="https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Emerald-Dove-1-1024x469.jpg 1024w, https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Emerald-Dove-1-300x137.jpg 300w, https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Emerald-Dove-1-768x352.jpg 768w" style="border-style: none; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; flex: 1 0 0%; height: 455px; max-width: 100%; object-fit: cover; vertical-align: bottom; width: 993.45px;" width="1024" /></figure></figure><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--font-base); margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--font-base); margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">She has taken part in residencies like Paradise Lodge International Artist Residency, Lonavala, Mumbai (November 2013); Sandarbh International Artists Residency Programme, Jaipur (November 2012); and Residency at the American School of Bombay, Mumbai (March – May 2010).</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--font-base); margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">She is the recipient of the Nasreen Mohamedi Scholarship, Maharaja Sayajirao University, Vadodara, 2004-2005. She recently participated in India Art Fair 2020 in Delhi. Nibha currently works and lives in Murud-Janjira and Mumbai</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--font-base); margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bolder;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">About TARQ</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--font-base); margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">TARQ was founded in 2014 by Hena Kapadia on the values of creating a meaningful conversation around art and its myriad connotations and contexts. It was envisioned as somet hing of a laboratory – an incubator for young contemporary artists which would work towards pushing the boundaries of how contemporary art in India is exhibited and perceived. TARQ’s youthful and experimental ethos encourages collectors, novice and seasoned alike, to approach art collecting through a perspective that marries thoughtfulness with an inquisitive eye for aesthetics and artistic processes.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--font-base); margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Since its conception, TARQ has endeavoured to create a robust outreach program that ties in with the gallery’s exhibitions and overall raison d’être. The program is an amalgam of educational initiatives in the form of workshops, gallery walk-throughs and talks. Our intention is to engage with a diverse audience to develop an informed viewership for contemporary art in the future</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--font-base); margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bolder;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">TARQ</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--font-base); margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">KK (Navsari) Chambers, Ground Floor, 39B AK Nayak Marg, Fort, Mumbai 400001, 022-66150424</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--font-base); margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Tuesday – Saturday: 11:00am – 6:30pm</span></p></div>Art Blogazinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05784762999278115873noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2709396143721111492.post-21310290039984905692024-02-19T22:11:00.000-08:002024-02-19T22:18:41.797-08:00Motivations for crafting refreshing wooden products and the inspirations behind them at the newly opened ZiWoo Galleria.<p><span face="Roboto, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", "sans-serif"" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: verdana; font-size: 0.8em;">The expansive new ZiWoo Galleria caters to clients and architects, offering a diverse range of interior solutions. From European Engineered flooring by Castrowood Floors to reclaimed wood and resin tables, as well as art sculptures and paintings from local artisans, this store is a one-stop destination for discerning design enthusiasts.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKvMexHxFCQWgiT8ZEvS8iDP7-9n9Uzjym8WmfnnUOp53KMVaXWGIHqVFNS8m9c0000p4qWne1dWl7BRV53WjXdWsuCWjuhnQSuhzn1SyR9BLszZNa8hB1Gwd8Ty4T2-PuY0tl4jR26ihk8fEXAXBlumEjhD3k3Fc21hpKJFk1XaRW1sOeuCmDkxDpBPY/s1600/ZiWoo%20Galleria.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1204" data-original-width="1600" height="468" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKvMexHxFCQWgiT8ZEvS8iDP7-9n9Uzjym8WmfnnUOp53KMVaXWGIHqVFNS8m9c0000p4qWne1dWl7BRV53WjXdWsuCWjuhnQSuhzn1SyR9BLszZNa8hB1Gwd8Ty4T2-PuY0tl4jR26ihk8fEXAXBlumEjhD3k3Fc21hpKJFk1XaRW1sOeuCmDkxDpBPY/w621-h468/ZiWoo%20Galleria.jpeg" width="621" /></span></a></div><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #111111; font-size: 0.8em; margin: 32px 0px; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: verdana; font-weight: bolder;">Tell us a bit about your brand and why did you start this new store?</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #111111; font-size: 0.8em; margin: 32px 0px; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">ZiWoo is the result of a unique collaboration between two industry leaders – Zion Impex, boasting 17 years of expertise in the wood floor industry, and Woodology, renowned for crafting exquisite resin wood table tops. Having solidified our position in the wood floor industry through a successful partnership with CastroWood Floors Portugal, we sought to introduce a new vertical that complements our existing product line, offering customers a refreshing addition to enhance their homes.</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #111111; font-size: 0.8em; margin: 32px 0px; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 0.8em; font-weight: bolder;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">What is the specialization of this store and the products you retail?</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #111111; font-size: 0.8em; margin: 32px 0px; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">ZiWoo specializes in crafting resin and wood tables from reclaimed wood, giving discarded pieces a new lease on life. No trees are cut for our tables, as the wood used is, on average, 25-40 years old, ensuring sustainability and unique character in every piece.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaDcz3FumxX1UtRpXoznMM9KxqiN8ctqrx3P_1ZdGQdSYD39Ary0dzeotb4t5-aJLDlGxjMnM9eJdDOyJMzoPVXqJmyEj-q2N_MFqkHieTFFoPg_7D7Hvy_IePuvoJKzCNQFd1SSo_2Yvlry4IERMPfJG4v1Vsi5Dkjzv7t650P6lcmENm26oMu3dVqLw/s1200/ezgif.com-animated-gif-maker.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="675" data-original-width="1200" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaDcz3FumxX1UtRpXoznMM9KxqiN8ctqrx3P_1ZdGQdSYD39Ary0dzeotb4t5-aJLDlGxjMnM9eJdDOyJMzoPVXqJmyEj-q2N_MFqkHieTFFoPg_7D7Hvy_IePuvoJKzCNQFd1SSo_2Yvlry4IERMPfJG4v1Vsi5Dkjzv7t650P6lcmENm26oMu3dVqLw/w637-h358/ezgif.com-animated-gif-maker.gif" width="637" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #111111; font-size: 0.8em; margin: 32px 0px; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #111111; font-size: 0.8em; margin: 32px 0px; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: verdana; font-weight: bolder;">How do you collaborate with architects to create customer panels?</span></p><div class="code-block code-block-9" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; color: #111111; font-size: 20px; margin: 8px auto; max-width: 100%; text-align: center;"><div class="googleAds ad-rendered" data-adtype="inread2" data-index="122" id="ad-slot-122" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></div></div><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #111111; font-size: 0.8em; margin: 32px 0px; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Our tables are easily customizable to suit the specific needs and preferences of architects and designers. For those seeking inspiration, our pre-made and displayed tables are sure to captivate, often becoming the focal point around which entire room designs evolve.</span></p><div class="wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-5 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex" style="align-items: center; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; display: flex; flex-wrap: nowrap; font-size: 20px; gap: 32px; margin: 32px 0px; max-width: calc(100% + 32px);"><div class="wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow" style="box-sizing: inherit; flex-basis: 0px; flex-grow: 1; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-64743 lazyloaded" data-src="https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/cloud/2024/02/16/DSC05133-edited-576x1024.jpg" data-srcset="https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/cloud/2024/02/16/DSC05133-edited-422x750.jpg 422w, https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/cloud/2024/02/16/DSC05133-edited-576x1024.jpg 576w, https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/cloud/2024/02/16/DSC05133-edited-768x1365.jpg 768w, https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/cloud/2024/02/16/DSC05133-edited-864x1536.jpg 864w, https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/cloud/2024/02/16/DSC05133-edited-1152x2048.jpg 1152w, https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/cloud/2024/02/16/yTXHEqtX-DSC05133-edited-1200x2133.jpg 1200w, https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/cloud/2024/02/16/DSC05133-edited-1568x2787.jpg 1568w, https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/cloud/2024/02/16/DSC05133-edited-400x711.jpg 400w, https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/cloud/2024/02/16/DSC05133-edited-scaled.jpg 1440w" decoding="async" height="1024" sizes="(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px" src="https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/cloud/2024/02/16/DSC05133-edited-576x1024.jpg" srcset="https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/cloud/2024/02/16/DSC05133-edited-422x750.jpg 422w, https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/cloud/2024/02/16/DSC05133-edited-576x1024.jpg 576w, https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/cloud/2024/02/16/DSC05133-edited-768x1365.jpg 768w, https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/cloud/2024/02/16/DSC05133-edited-864x1536.jpg 864w, https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/cloud/2024/02/16/DSC05133-edited-1152x2048.jpg 1152w, https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/cloud/2024/02/16/yTXHEqtX-DSC05133-edited-1200x2133.jpg 1200w, https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/cloud/2024/02/16/DSC05133-edited-1568x2787.jpg 1568w, https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/cloud/2024/02/16/DSC05133-edited-400x711.jpg 400w, https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/cloud/2024/02/16/DSC05133-edited-scaled.jpg 1440w" style="border-style: none; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%; position: relative; vertical-align: bottom;" width="576" /></figure></div><div class="wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow" style="box-sizing: inherit; flex-basis: 0px; flex-grow: 1; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-64744 lazyloaded" data-src="https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/cloud/2024/02/16/DSC05162-edited-576x1024.jpg" data-srcset="https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/cloud/2024/02/16/DSC05162-edited-422x750.jpg 422w, https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/cloud/2024/02/16/DSC05162-edited-576x1024.jpg 576w, https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/cloud/2024/02/16/DSC05162-edited-768x1365.jpg 768w, https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/cloud/2024/02/16/DSC05162-edited-864x1536.jpg 864w, https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/cloud/2024/02/16/DSC05162-edited-1152x2048.jpg 1152w, https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/cloud/2024/02/16/wNxiNZpz-DSC05162-edited-1200x2133.jpg 1200w, https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/cloud/2024/02/16/DSC05162-edited-1568x2787.jpg 1568w, https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/cloud/2024/02/16/DSC05162-edited-400x711.jpg 400w, https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/cloud/2024/02/16/DSC05162-edited-scaled.jpg 1440w" decoding="async" height="1024" sizes="(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px" src="https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/cloud/2024/02/16/DSC05162-edited-576x1024.jpg" srcset="https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/cloud/2024/02/16/DSC05162-edited-422x750.jpg 422w, https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/cloud/2024/02/16/DSC05162-edited-576x1024.jpg 576w, https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/cloud/2024/02/16/DSC05162-edited-768x1365.jpg 768w, https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/cloud/2024/02/16/DSC05162-edited-864x1536.jpg 864w, https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/cloud/2024/02/16/DSC05162-edited-1152x2048.jpg 1152w, https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/cloud/2024/02/16/wNxiNZpz-DSC05162-edited-1200x2133.jpg 1200w, https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/cloud/2024/02/16/DSC05162-edited-1568x2787.jpg 1568w, https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/cloud/2024/02/16/DSC05162-edited-400x711.jpg 400w, https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/cloud/2024/02/16/DSC05162-edited-scaled.jpg 1440w" style="border-style: none; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%; position: relative; vertical-align: bottom;" width="576" /></figure></div></div><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #111111; font-size: 0.8em; margin: 32px 0px; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: verdana; font-weight: bolder;">Do you sell only panels or furniture too?</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #111111; font-size: 0.8em; margin: 32px 0px; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Currently, we exclusively retail wood and resin table tops, with no plans to expand our product range beyond this unique offering.</span></p><div class="code-block code-block-10" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; color: #111111; font-size: 20px; margin: 8px auto; max-width: 100%; text-align: center;"><div class="googleAds ad-rendered" data-adtype="inread3" data-index="123" id="ad-slot-123" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></div></div><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #111111; font-size: 0.8em; margin: 32px 0px; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: verdana; font-weight: bolder;">What is your process of working and delivery periods?</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #111111; font-size: 0.8em; margin: 32px 0px; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">With a range of ready-to-use table tops available for immediate delivery, customized orders have a production time of approximately one month, ensuring a balance between efficiency and bespoke craftsmanship.</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #111111; font-size: 0.8em; margin: 32px 0px; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: verdana; font-weight: bolder;">Do you mass produce or custom make?</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #111111; font-size: 0.8em; margin: 32px 0px; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">We do not engage in mass production due to the challenge of finding reclaimed wood that meets our standards. Instead, each piece is meticulously crafted, resulting in a custom and unique work of art.</span></p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #111111; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px 0px; max-width: 100%;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-64739 lazyloaded" data-src="https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/cloud/2024/02/16/DSC_7761-1024x576.jpg" data-srcset="https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/cloud/2024/02/16/DSC_7761-1000x562.jpg 1000w, https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/cloud/2024/02/16/DSC_7761-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/cloud/2024/02/16/DSC_7761-768x432.jpg 768w, https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/cloud/2024/02/16/DSC_7761-1536x863.jpg 1536w, https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/cloud/2024/02/16/DSC_7761-2048x1151.jpg 2048w, https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/cloud/2024/02/16/DY9eEaOV-DSC_7761-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/cloud/2024/02/16/DSC_7761-400x225.jpg 400w, https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/cloud/2024/02/16/DSC_7761-1568x881.jpg 1568w" decoding="async" height="576" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" src="https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/cloud/2024/02/16/DSC_7761-1024x576.jpg" srcset="https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/cloud/2024/02/16/DSC_7761-1000x562.jpg 1000w, https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/cloud/2024/02/16/DSC_7761-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/cloud/2024/02/16/DSC_7761-768x432.jpg 768w, https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/cloud/2024/02/16/DSC_7761-1536x863.jpg 1536w, https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/cloud/2024/02/16/DSC_7761-2048x1151.jpg 2048w, https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/cloud/2024/02/16/DY9eEaOV-DSC_7761-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/cloud/2024/02/16/DSC_7761-400x225.jpg 400w, https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/cloud/2024/02/16/DSC_7761-1568x881.jpg 1568w" style="border-style: none; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%; position: relative; vertical-align: bottom;" width="1024" /></figure><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #111111; font-size: 0.8em; margin: 32px 0px; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: verdana; font-weight: bolder;">Have you worked on any projects so far?</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #111111; font-size: 0.8em; margin: 32px 0px; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">While we’ve successfully executed numerous projects across India, our Mumbai showroom marks our inaugural exclusive space, showcasing our commitment to delivering exceptional design.</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #111111; font-size: 0.8em; margin: 32px 0px; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: verdana; font-weight: bolder;">Are there are brands in this segment? If yes, how do you differentiate yourself?</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #111111; font-size: 0.8em; margin: 32px 0px; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">While many are familiar with resin table manufacturing, our differentiator lies in our ready-to-use collection. Our deep involvement in selecting wood blocks, resin colors, patterns, and finishes ensures a curated range designed by us, making our products stand out in the home and office furniture market.</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #111111; font-size: 0.8em; margin: 32px 0px; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: verdana; font-weight: bolder;">What kind of spaces are your products ideal for?</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #111111; font-size: 0.8em; margin: 32px 0px; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Our tables are ideal for both dining spaces in homes and creating an exceptional work experience in office settings.</span></p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #111111; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px 0px; max-width: 100%;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-64741 lazyloaded" data-src="https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/cloud/2024/02/16/DSC05147-1024x576.jpg" data-srcset="https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/cloud/2024/02/16/DSC05147-1000x563.jpg 1000w, https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/cloud/2024/02/16/DSC05147-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/cloud/2024/02/16/DSC05147-768x432.jpg 768w, https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/cloud/2024/02/16/DSC05147-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/cloud/2024/02/16/DSC05147-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/cloud/2024/02/16/00T9Hmpl-DSC05147-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/cloud/2024/02/16/DSC05147-400x225.jpg 400w, https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/cloud/2024/02/16/DSC05147-1568x882.jpg 1568w" decoding="async" height="576" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" src="https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/cloud/2024/02/16/DSC05147-1024x576.jpg" srcset="https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/cloud/2024/02/16/DSC05147-1000x563.jpg 1000w, https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/cloud/2024/02/16/DSC05147-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/cloud/2024/02/16/DSC05147-768x432.jpg 768w, https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/cloud/2024/02/16/DSC05147-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/cloud/2024/02/16/DSC05147-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/cloud/2024/02/16/00T9Hmpl-DSC05147-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/cloud/2024/02/16/DSC05147-400x225.jpg 400w, https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/cloud/2024/02/16/DSC05147-1568x882.jpg 1568w" style="border-style: none; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%; position: relative; vertical-align: bottom;" width="1024" /></figure><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #111111; font-size: 0.8em; margin: 32px 0px; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: verdana; font-weight: bolder;">Any suggestions on why should people visit your store?</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #111111; font-size: 0.8em; margin: 32px 0px; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Our table tops offer a unique and enjoyable dining and work experience. In addition, our curated selection includes European wood flooring and art for walls, making our store a comprehensive destination for contemporary home decor needs.</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #111111; font-size: 0.8em; margin: 32px 0px; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: verdana; font-weight: bolder;">Can you share your background and experience in this field?</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #111111; font-size: 0.8em; margin: 32px 0px; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Zion Impex in the span of 17 years, we have established collaborations with multiple European companies and recently partnered with Castrowood Floors, a leading European Wood Floor manufacturer. Woodology, with over 5 years of experience, has been at the forefront of designing and crafting resin wood tables and artistic wood-based panels.</span></p><div class="wp-block-image" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #111111; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px 0px; max-width: 100%;"><figure class="aligncenter size-large" style="box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; display: table; margin: 0px auto;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-64757 lazyloaded" data-src="https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/cloud/2024/02/16/DSC05085-1024x576.jpg" data-srcset="https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/cloud/2024/02/16/DSC05085-1000x563.jpg 1000w, https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/cloud/2024/02/16/DSC05085-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/cloud/2024/02/16/DSC05085-768x432.jpg 768w, https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/cloud/2024/02/16/DSC05085-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/cloud/2024/02/16/DSC05085-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/cloud/2024/02/16/Ju56BgAL-DSC05085-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/cloud/2024/02/16/DSC05085-400x225.jpg 400w, https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/cloud/2024/02/16/DSC05085-1568x882.jpg 1568w" decoding="async" height="576" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" src="https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/cloud/2024/02/16/DSC05085-1024x576.jpg" srcset="https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/cloud/2024/02/16/DSC05085-1000x563.jpg 1000w, https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/cloud/2024/02/16/DSC05085-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/cloud/2024/02/16/DSC05085-768x432.jpg 768w, https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/cloud/2024/02/16/DSC05085-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/cloud/2024/02/16/DSC05085-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/cloud/2024/02/16/Ju56BgAL-DSC05085-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/cloud/2024/02/16/DSC05085-400x225.jpg 400w, https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/cloud/2024/02/16/DSC05085-1568x882.jpg 1568w" style="border-style: none; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%; position: relative; vertical-align: bottom;" width="1024" /></figure></div><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #111111; font-size: 0.8em; margin: 32px 0px; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bolder;"><em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Address:<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /></em></span><em style="box-sizing: inherit;">ZiWoo Galleria. B7, Wadala Udyog Bhavan, Naigaon cross road, NMGS marg, Dadar / Wadala, Mumbai 400031.</em></span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 32px 0px; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: verdana; font-size: 0.8em;"><i>Source: </i></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: verdana;"><i>www.architectandinteriorsindia.com</i></span></span></p>Art Blogazinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05784762999278115873noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2709396143721111492.post-85147806063658747322024-02-18T10:15:00.000-08:002024-02-18T10:15:03.278-08:00AstaGuru’s Upcoming ‘Dimensions Defined’ Auction Offers A Treasure Trove of Unique Works by Indian Modernists February 16, 2024 <p><br /></p><div class="post-thumbnail" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #393e46; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img alt="" class="attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image" decoding="async" height="1360" sizes="(max-width: 2167px) 100vw, 2167px" src="https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Rabindranath-Tagore-_-Handwritten-Letter-Lot-No.-5-.jpg" srcset="https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Rabindranath-Tagore-_-Handwritten-Letter-Lot-No.-5-.jpg 2167w, https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Rabindranath-Tagore-_-Handwritten-Letter-Lot-No.-5--300x188.jpg 300w, https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Rabindranath-Tagore-_-Handwritten-Letter-Lot-No.-5--1024x643.jpg 1024w, https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Rabindranath-Tagore-_-Handwritten-Letter-Lot-No.-5--768x482.jpg 768w, https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Rabindranath-Tagore-_-Handwritten-Letter-Lot-No.-5--1536x964.jpg 1536w, https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Rabindranath-Tagore-_-Handwritten-Letter-Lot-No.-5--2048x1285.jpg 2048w" style="border-style: none; box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="2167" /></span></div><div class="entry-content" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #393e46; counter-reset: footnotes 0; font-size: 16px; margin: 1.5em 0px 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--font-base); margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">AstaGuru’s upcoming ‘Dimensions Defined’ Auction will feature a meticulously curated catalogue of Modern Indian Art, presenting significant works by iconic Indian modernists. Each piece in the auction reflects the diverse and ever-changing artistic landscape in India over the past decades. The curation offers an eclectic selection of works by eminent artists, including Jamini Roy, Amrita Sher-Gil, Rabindranath Tagore, M. F. Husain, S. H. Raza, K. H. Ara, F. N. Souza, Krishen Khanna, Ram Kumar, Jogen Chowdhury, G.R. Santosh, J. Swaminathan, K. Laxma Goud, Thota Vaikuntam, K. K. Hebbar, Bikash Bhattacharjee, Sakti Burman, Akbar Padamsee, B. Vithal, H. A. Gade, Satish Gujral and Manu Parekh amongst others. The selection also includes sculptural masterpieces by eminent artists such as Himmat Shah, Amarnath Sehgal, Dhanraj Bhagat and Prodosh Dasgupta. The auction is scheduled for February 22-23, 2024.</span></p><figure class="wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex" style="--wp--style--unstable-gallery-gap: var( --wp--style--gallery-gap-default, var( --gallery-block--gutter-size, var( --wp--style--block-gap, 0.5em ) ) ); align-items: normal; box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: var( --wp--style--gallery-gap-default, var( --gallery-block--gutter-size, var( --wp--style--block-gap, 0.5em ) ) ); margin: 1em 0px;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="align-self: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; position: relative; width: calc(50% - var(--wp--style--unstable-gallery-gap, 16px)*.5);"><img alt="" class="wp-image-4621" data-id="4621" decoding="async" height="1024" sizes="(max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px" src="https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/asta-guru-683x1024.jpg" srcset="https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/asta-guru-683x1024.jpg 683w, https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/asta-guru-200x300.jpg 200w, https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/asta-guru-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/asta-guru-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/asta-guru.jpg 1067w" style="border-style: none; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; flex: 1 0 0%; height: 739.088px; max-width: 100%; object-fit: cover; vertical-align: bottom; width: 492.725px;" width="683" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: linear-gradient(0deg, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7), rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3) 70%, transparent); background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; bottom: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; flex-basis: 100%; flex-grow: 1; font-size: 13px; left: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; max-height: 60%; overflow: auto; padding: 0px 8px 8px; position: absolute; text-align: center; width: 492.725px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Sunny Chandiramani</span></figcaption></figure><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="align-self: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; position: relative; width: calc(50% - var(--wp--style--unstable-gallery-gap, 16px)*.5);"><img alt="" class="wp-image-4623" data-id="4623" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 820px) 100vw, 820px" src="https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/S-H-Raza-_-Untitled-Lot-No.-140-820x1024.jpg" srcset="https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/S-H-Raza-_-Untitled-Lot-No.-140-820x1024.jpg 820w, https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/S-H-Raza-_-Untitled-Lot-No.-140-240x300.jpg 240w, https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/S-H-Raza-_-Untitled-Lot-No.-140-768x959.jpg 768w, https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/S-H-Raza-_-Untitled-Lot-No.-140-1230x1536.jpg 1230w, https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/S-H-Raza-_-Untitled-Lot-No.-140-1639x2048.jpg 1639w" style="border-style: none; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; flex: 1 0 0%; height: 739.088px; max-width: 100%; object-fit: cover; vertical-align: bottom; width: 492.725px;" width="820" /></figure></figure><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--font-base); margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Talking about the upcoming auction<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bolder;">, Sunny Chandiramani, Senior Vice President, Client Relations, AstaGuru Auction House says</span>:</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--font-base); margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><em style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">“We take great care to curate a collection that traverses decades, presenting the unfolding tapestry of Indian art through the masterpieces of renowned modernists. This auction offers a distinctive opportunity for art enthusiasts and collectors to procure extraordinary pieces, each narrating a captivating story of creativity and inspiration. The thoughtfully chosen artworks, including those by luminaries of the PAG generation, mirror the diverse and dynamic artistic panorama that has significantly influenced our cultural narrative.”</span></em></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--font-base); margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bolder;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">S H Raza:</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--font-base); margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Adorning the cover of the catalogue is a beautiful work by S H Raza, estimated to be acquired for INR 1,50,00,000 – 2,00,00,000. Executed by S H Raza in 1977, this landscape is a fine example of the artist’s preoccupation with utilising colours as symbols. While his early landscapes, executed during the 1950s, depicted several figurative elements, as time progressed, they appeared less and were substituted by expressionism. These vibrant bursts of colour were further enhanced by the palette and brushstrokes.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--font-base); margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bolder;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Rabindranath Tagore:</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--font-base); margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The auction will also offer a rare gem for collectors, a handwritten notebook by legendary artist and Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore. The presented lot is a historically significant manuscript that details writings on Poush Sankranti, penned by Rabindranath Tagore in February 1930 at Shantiniketan. It is estimated to be acquired at INR 60,00,000 – 80,00,000.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--font-base); margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bolder;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">M.F. Husain:</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--font-base); margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Another unique inclusion is lot no 115, a large-scale copper plate triptych by M F Husain, estimated to sell at INR 2,00,00,000 – 3,00,00,0000. Since not many such sculptures are known to have been created by Husain, this unique work engraved with intricate design offers a great insight into Husain’s multifaceted artistic approach. Four wood cut works painted by the artist are also a part of the upcoming auction.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--font-base); margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bolder;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Akbar Padamsee:</span></span></p><figure class="wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex" style="--wp--style--unstable-gallery-gap: var( --wp--style--gallery-gap-default, var( --gallery-block--gutter-size, var( --wp--style--block-gap, 0.5em ) ) ); align-items: normal; box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: var( --wp--style--gallery-gap-default, var( --gallery-block--gutter-size, var( --wp--style--block-gap, 0.5em ) ) ); margin: 1em 0px;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="align-self: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; position: relative; width: 993.45px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-4624" data-id="4624" decoding="async" height="717" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" src="https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Akbar-Padamsee-_-Landscape-Lot-No-28-1024x717.jpg" srcset="https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Akbar-Padamsee-_-Landscape-Lot-No-28-1024x717.jpg 1024w, https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Akbar-Padamsee-_-Landscape-Lot-No-28-300x210.jpg 300w, https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Akbar-Padamsee-_-Landscape-Lot-No-28-768x537.jpg 768w" style="border-style: none; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; flex: 1 0 0%; height: 695.6px; max-width: 100%; object-fit: cover; vertical-align: bottom; width: 993.45px;" width="1024" /></figure></figure><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--font-base); margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Lot number 28 is a magnificent work by Akbar Padamsee, which he executed during an extremely vital transitional phase of his career. Executed in 1963, the presented work is among the abstracted landscapes which became a formative ground of Padamsee’s famous metascapes work. This lot will be offered with an estimate of INR 3,00,00,000 – 4,00,00,000.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--font-base); margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bolder;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Jagdish Swaminathan:</span></span></p><figure class="wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-3 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex" style="--wp--style--unstable-gallery-gap: var( --wp--style--gallery-gap-default, var( --gallery-block--gutter-size, var( --wp--style--block-gap, 0.5em ) ) ); align-items: normal; box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: var( --wp--style--gallery-gap-default, var( --gallery-block--gutter-size, var( --wp--style--block-gap, 0.5em ) ) ); margin: 1em 0px;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="align-self: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; position: relative; width: 993.45px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-4625" data-id="4625" decoding="async" height="713" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" src="https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/J-Swaminathan-_-Lot-No-70--1024x713.jpg" srcset="https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/J-Swaminathan-_-Lot-No-70--1024x713.jpg 1024w, https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/J-Swaminathan-_-Lot-No-70--300x209.jpg 300w, https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/J-Swaminathan-_-Lot-No-70--768x534.jpg 768w, https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/J-Swaminathan-_-Lot-No-70--1536x1069.jpg 1536w, https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/J-Swaminathan-_-Lot-No-70--2048x1425.jpg 2048w" style="border-style: none; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; flex: 1 0 0%; height: 691.4px; max-width: 100%; object-fit: cover; vertical-align: bottom; width: 993.45px;" width="1024" /></figure></figure><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--font-base); margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Lot no. 70 is an important creation by artist Jagdish Swaminathan. Through this work, he incorporates a dimension of reality within the realm of his invented abstract world. This lot will be offered with an estimate of INR 2,00,00,000 – 3,00,00,000.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--font-base); margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bolder;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Thota Vaikuntam:</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--font-base); margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Lot no. 178 is a majestic creation by artist Thota Vaikuntam and captures the scene of a little Krishen gorging on butter in the artist’s signature style motifs and colours. A large-scale creation spanning ten feet, it is estimated to be acquired at INR 80,00,000 – 1,20,00,000.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--font-base); margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bolder;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">V S Gaitonde:</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--font-base); margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">A work by one of India’s most revered modernists V S Gaintonde will also feature in the upcoming auction. VS Gaitonde’s eventual arrival upon the visual portrayal of the conscience was an elaborate evolutionary journey substantiated by his internal findings. This work, lot no. 83, is estimated to sell at INR 60,00,000 – 80,00,000.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--font-base); margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The auction will also showcase several creations in both mediums of paintings and sculptures by artists Krishen Khanna, Himmat Shah, and Manu Parekh.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--font-base); margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bolder;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Krishen Khanna:</span></span></p><figure class="wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-4 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex" style="--wp--style--unstable-gallery-gap: var( --wp--style--gallery-gap-default, var( --gallery-block--gutter-size, var( --wp--style--block-gap, 0.5em ) ) ); align-items: normal; box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: var( --wp--style--gallery-gap-default, var( --gallery-block--gutter-size, var( --wp--style--block-gap, 0.5em ) ) ); margin: 1em 0px;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="align-self: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; position: relative; width: 993.45px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-4626" data-id="4626" decoding="async" height="681" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" src="https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Krishen-Khanna-_-Lot-No.-133-1024x681.jpg" srcset="https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Krishen-Khanna-_-Lot-No.-133-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Krishen-Khanna-_-Lot-No.-133-300x200.jpg 300w, https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Krishen-Khanna-_-Lot-No.-133-768x511.jpg 768w, https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Krishen-Khanna-_-Lot-No.-133-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Krishen-Khanna-_-Lot-No.-133.jpg 1619w" style="border-style: none; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; flex: 1 0 0%; height: 661px; max-width: 100%; object-fit: cover; vertical-align: bottom; width: 993.45px;" width="1024" /></figure></figure><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--font-base); margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Lot no 109, a large-scale acrylic on charcoal painting by Krishen Khanna is estimated to sell at INR 25,00,000 – 30,00,000. A sculptural rendition of his preoccupation with the motif of tiger and elephant is showcased in a magnificent piece of lot no 133. This work is estimated to sell at INR 15,00,000 – 20,00,000.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--font-base); margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bolder;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Himmat Shah:</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--font-base); margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Lot no. 54 is a sculpture by artist Himmat Shah, offered with an estimate of INR 20,00,000 – 25,00,000.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--font-base); margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bolder;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Manu Parekh:</span></span></p><figure class="wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-5 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex" style="--wp--style--unstable-gallery-gap: var( --wp--style--gallery-gap-default, var( --gallery-block--gutter-size, var( --wp--style--block-gap, 0.5em ) ) ); align-items: normal; box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: var( --wp--style--gallery-gap-default, var( --gallery-block--gutter-size, var( --wp--style--block-gap, 0.5em ) ) ); margin: 1em 0px;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="align-self: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; position: relative; width: 993.45px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-4627" data-id="4627" decoding="async" height="518" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" src="https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Manu-Parekh-_-Lot-No-131-1-1024x518.jpg" srcset="https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Manu-Parekh-_-Lot-No-131-1-1024x518.jpg 1024w, https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Manu-Parekh-_-Lot-No-131-1-300x152.jpg 300w, https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Manu-Parekh-_-Lot-No-131-1-768x388.jpg 768w, https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Manu-Parekh-_-Lot-No-131-1-1536x776.jpg 1536w, https://www.epaperartblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Manu-Parekh-_-Lot-No-131-1.jpg 1832w" style="border-style: none; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; flex: 1 0 0%; height: 501.9px; max-width: 100%; object-fit: cover; vertical-align: bottom; width: 993.45px;" width="1024" /></figure></figure><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--font-base); margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Among several creations by Manu Parekh offered in the upcoming auction, lot no. 131 is a beautiful composition titled ‘Temple Festival at Moonlight.’ A rich and exquisite example of his consistent exploration of the holy city of Benares, this work is offered with an estimate of INR 20,00,000 – 30,00,000.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--font-base); margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bolder;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">K H Ara:</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--font-base); margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Lot no. 104, a work by K H Ara is a rare work, an oil on canvas creation from the circa 1940s, and showcases a distinct departure from Ara’s preferred styles of nudes and still life. This lot is estimated to sell at INR 30,00,000 – 40,00,000.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--font-base); margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bolder;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">About Asta<em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Guru</em></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--font-base); margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">AstaGuru Auction House was conceptualised in the year 2008 with the sole purpose of creating a safe and secure platform to conduct online auctions for Contemporary & <a href="https://www.astaguru.com/department/Modern%20Indian%20Art-1" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: royalblue;">Modern Indian Art</a>. Over the years, AstaGuru has curated auctions encompassing diverse categories, our portfolio includes art, jewellery, fine silver, timepieces, textiles, celebrity memorabilia, rare books, numismatic, philately and vintage cars. In 2018, AstaGuru became the first Indian auction house to present an exclusive edition for vintage and classic cars. “AstaGuru has strived to successfully bridge the gap between prospective buyers and consignors by transcending the limitations of live auctions. AstaGuru imparts effortless transparency to the process of acquiring and selling art and rare collectibles. The online module offers bidders the opportunity to bid from the comfort of their houses or while they are on the go.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--font-base); margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">For more information, please log on to <a href="https://www.astaguru.com/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: royalblue;">https://www.astaguru.com/</a></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--font-base); margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Facebook: @Astaguru | Instagram: @astaguru | X: @astagurutweets</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--font-base); margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">All image copyright Asta Guru / Art Blogazine</span></p></div>Art Blogazinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05784762999278115873noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2709396143721111492.post-58652715481419986002024-02-15T19:52:00.000-08:002024-02-15T19:52:58.835-08:00February 15. Happy Birthday Jogen Chowdhury<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7upy7mVFfr6zJcyXmYwPQ-O7-br-O3swjy5-KqQmz2Kb2jzQo4BDa3VHBr2tJsziiXM15879fUoLmcu-x5c8YSqwBIoTTBvNVfGqKqjkHpi0_hcx9uepEq_ey8tG0lshyQBqUiWH3DsJgVS-CkYKo6leKiyfh4HgQEaDsEVYnsD0RbpuLzHMSSe7MeZk/s1200/ezgif.com-animated-gif-maker-11.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="795" data-original-width="1200" height="465" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7upy7mVFfr6zJcyXmYwPQ-O7-br-O3swjy5-KqQmz2Kb2jzQo4BDa3VHBr2tJsziiXM15879fUoLmcu-x5c8YSqwBIoTTBvNVfGqKqjkHpi0_hcx9uepEq_ey8tG0lshyQBqUiWH3DsJgVS-CkYKo6leKiyfh4HgQEaDsEVYnsD0RbpuLzHMSSe7MeZk/w702-h465/ezgif.com-animated-gif-maker-11.gif" width="702" /></a></div><br /> <span face="Syne, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #393e46; font-size: var(--font-base); text-align: justify;">Jogen Chowdhury is an eminent Indian artist whose works delve into the human condition through the amalgamation of Indian traditional influences and contemporary aesthetics. Known as the ‘master of the unbroken line’, he has created varied impressive works throughout his prolific career that feature flowing, uninterrupted lines. His characters often have a distinct caricature-esque look and are replete with symbolism. </span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWx7HWgSbE_AqQ5P5EEvfAfswQ5qJzyYbhFra9sthjAbl7bWNyFsz6vzq1DXHdBtQBe7XJhHgHtKFqxWp2BZpUdsjRWefilF76jWSIlUYS1KLv_LcXxEXKJme-tvPHfz3PZXeLc0SDY0KnUoDRlqP1KRqGcFOo1cSiAC0KlwqGCz5V3tMp96LbQa1y_zQ/s1536/JOGEN-CHOWDHURY-2-1536x1077.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1077" data-original-width="1536" height="354" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWx7HWgSbE_AqQ5P5EEvfAfswQ5qJzyYbhFra9sthjAbl7bWNyFsz6vzq1DXHdBtQBe7XJhHgHtKFqxWp2BZpUdsjRWefilF76jWSIlUYS1KLv_LcXxEXKJme-tvPHfz3PZXeLc0SDY0KnUoDRlqP1KRqGcFOo1cSiAC0KlwqGCz5V3tMp96LbQa1y_zQ/w506-h354/JOGEN-CHOWDHURY-2-1536x1077.jpg" width="506" /></a></div><br /><span face="Syne, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #393e46; font-size: var(--font-base); text-align: justify;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span face="Syne, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #393e46; font-size: var(--font-base); text-align: justify;">His inspirations lie in his Bengali roots and traditional Indian art forms such as Kalighat. Through this article, we aim to celebrate the legacy of his works on the occasion of his birthday on February 15.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #393e46; font-family: Syne, sans-serif; font-size: var(--font-base); margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: right;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bolder;">Ms. Ankita Talreja</span> </p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #393e46; font-family: Syne, sans-serif; font-size: var(--font-base); margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: right;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bolder;">Asta Guru</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #393e46; font-family: Syne, sans-serif; font-size: var(--font-base); margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: right;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bolder;"> </span><em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Vice President</em></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #393e46; font-family: Syne, sans-serif; font-size: var(--font-base); margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: right;">All image copyright by Asta Guru</p>Art Blogazinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05784762999278115873noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2709396143721111492.post-57198219421293781122024-02-15T18:46:00.000-08:002024-02-15T18:46:46.308-08:00“Srujananubhuti” Solo show of Paintings by Renowned artist Jitendra Ramesh Divte <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">DIVINE ENDEAVOURS</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Recent work of a contemporary artist, Jitendra R.Divte in Acrylic colours on canvas will be displayed in a solo art show in Jehangir Art Gallery, M.G. Road, Kala Ghoda, Mumbai 400 001 from 19th to 25th February, 2024 between 11 am to 7 pm. It will be open for free public viewing there during the gallery timings and showcase his artistic perceptions about the various temples, religious shrines, vivid places of worship, the buildings of historical and social heritage and relevance etc. in his style via apt colour combinations to suit their thematic relevance in different perspectives of visual fine arts. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhWZrUA1gUpLR7JTtenALRWaQaenbQK4bl9t6JGMDgjFEvSJVxtNWzWtGowheofyP-oUQiQYUKrR2AF6k00ZWmfnu5i24Gw3R2sLOOFOj9w3BSUYi0as_JkEiI4_kjmYxzIGmuHJfakR9LiDaXWcBulqRcoN4Is3ppb_1hFnRurFog4bnliKHOvGH1OiE/s3090/Jitendra%20Divte.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3090" data-original-width="2653" height="494" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhWZrUA1gUpLR7JTtenALRWaQaenbQK4bl9t6JGMDgjFEvSJVxtNWzWtGowheofyP-oUQiQYUKrR2AF6k00ZWmfnu5i24Gw3R2sLOOFOj9w3BSUYi0as_JkEiI4_kjmYxzIGmuHJfakR9LiDaXWcBulqRcoN4Is3ppb_1hFnRurFog4bnliKHOvGH1OiE/w425-h494/Jitendra%20Divte.JPG" width="425" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Artist: Jitendra R Divte</td></tr></tbody></table></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Jitendra R. Divte had his art education in fine arts at L.S. Raheja School of Arts, Mumbai, where he stood 7th in order of merit in Maharashtra in 1998. Then he displayed his work on various themes in Army & Navy Building, Kala Ghoda Association, Mumbai, show in 2005 followed by solo art show at Sahil Art Gallery, Mumbai in 2008. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">He also participated in some group art exhibitions at Nehru Centre, Worli, Mumbai, Army & Navy Building, Kala Ghoda Association, Mumbai Art Show, Hirji Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay Art Society Annual Art Show, Vismay Metro Art Gallery, Bangalore, Mumbai, Chitrakala Parishath, Bangalore etc. He also participated in some International Water Colours art exhibitions in Bangladesh and Russia. He was awarded for his work in water colours in 2017 by IWS INDIA, in 2018 by IWS Bangladesh and in 2021 by IWS Russia. His work was appreciated by the art fraternity in these shows and he received good public response for these presentations. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSHdeiLb6y7TIqfj4akEUaPGDhc0JNVbplI3YRpVCglmQRYtUnrAW9Pcmz99MCb1csZbGjB5T1Ckz_qbCltgqVSEa5NzLPI2BkiwvSG2fgc2qfLouayBSSqfRV-1RlXeOIgyOJXaCM4KrQbCpQDa0gmUJaWCwfoeizuptqMR_iB42GbIqIfHs9vLM1iWo/s1699/11.%20Acrylic%20on%20canvas.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1699" data-original-width="1273" height="651" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSHdeiLb6y7TIqfj4akEUaPGDhc0JNVbplI3YRpVCglmQRYtUnrAW9Pcmz99MCb1csZbGjB5T1Ckz_qbCltgqVSEa5NzLPI2BkiwvSG2fgc2qfLouayBSSqfRV-1RlXeOIgyOJXaCM4KrQbCpQDa0gmUJaWCwfoeizuptqMR_iB42GbIqIfHs9vLM1iWo/w488-h651/11.%20Acrylic%20on%20canvas.jpg" width="488" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The present series in Acrylic Colours on canvas throws light on his artistic impressions and aesthetic perceptions about various historical buildings, their architectural details & the culture & heritage associated with them at various places. He has focussed on presenting the various relevant details at these places in his expressive style using apt colour combinations and their harmony. He has also highlighted the relevance and sanctity of various temples, religious shrines and places of worship, the heritage and cultural traditions there and their significant peculiarities. He has made artistic use of morning light, afternoon light, evening light along with shades, shadows, reflections and illumination effects at the desired locations in the work. He has made use of warm and cool colours and achieved their balance for aesthetic and artistic decoration of his work in the relevant perspectives. He has also used various geometrical forms and achieved their rhythmic unison in the work at the strategic arenas in order to get the desired visual perspectives in his work. These works made in an aesthetic and artistic style using acrylic colours on canvas certainly share a dialogue with the viewers leading to their warm response and appreciation.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">From: 19<sup>th</sup> to 25<sup>th</sup> February 2024</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">“Srujananubhuti”</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Solo show of Paintings by Renowned artist Jitendra Ramesh Divte</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><u><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">VENUE:</span></span></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Jehangir Art Gallery</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">161-B, M.G. Road</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Kala Ghoda, Mumbai 400 001</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Timing: 11am to 7pm</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Contact: + 91 9869717246</span></span></p>Art Blogazinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05784762999278115873noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2709396143721111492.post-79977388470423686622024-02-15T09:18:00.000-08:002024-02-15T09:20:42.674-08:00Windows of Inner Expressions. Art Exhibition by contemporary artist Maitrry P Shah<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 21pt; text-align: center;"></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 21.0pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Windows of Inner Expressions.</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Recent work of a renowned contemporary artist, <b>Maitrry Shah</b> will
be displayed in a solo art exhibition in Hirji Jehangir Art Gallery, M.G. Road,
Kala Ghoda, Mumbai 400001 from 19<sup>th</sup> to 25<sup>th</sup> February,
2024. It will be open there for free public viewing daily from 11 am to
7pm. This show will showcase her profound instincts and artistic
conceptualisations about various facets of human psyche through a metaphorical
motif of windows.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 21.0pt; text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ5gJk2ACFUEu5roGPjKE_NMvgYNisZFs4ZgsTKdtst1lpXjt2r1w8Uy1b85v5runZbVqAFfRYp8WgkVMT_6oEdNZRedN3ILnHJtz9a7KQE5E3qhRCAZt31tu5gBvs1FXb8WtOX_i338Vb-c22LhQZzg_PFE2IpXo8D4Qy5UQgCVIoMiaA9GVft4teOmo/s5641/Maitrry%202.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5641" data-original-width="3766" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ5gJk2ACFUEu5roGPjKE_NMvgYNisZFs4ZgsTKdtst1lpXjt2r1w8Uy1b85v5runZbVqAFfRYp8WgkVMT_6oEdNZRedN3ILnHJtz9a7KQE5E3qhRCAZt31tu5gBvs1FXb8WtOX_i338Vb-c22LhQZzg_PFE2IpXo8D4Qy5UQgCVIoMiaA9GVft4teOmo/s320/Maitrry%202.jpg" width="214" /></a></div><br /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 21.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> <b>Maitrry
Shah</b> hails from Ahmedabad where she had her earlier education and
guidance in visual arts. Then she spent her formative years in Gandhinagar
under the guidance and support of many art promotors. She got her Doctorate in
fine Arts from IEMS leading to a firm basis and foundation. Then she presented
her work in numerous solo and group art exhibitions in leading art galleries
all over India and abroad. She presented her work in art galleries at <b>Gandhinagar,
Bangalore, Jaipur, Bhilwara-Rajasthan, Vadodara, Ahmedabad, Noida, Gurgaon,
Manipal, Pune, Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, Mauritius, Warsaw-Poland</b> etc.
and received good public response and accolades for her presentations. She is a
proud recipient of many public appreciations for her work since a young age of
12 years. A proud recipient of prestigious awards and prizes and appreciations
from several noteworthy art promotional institutions in India and abroad, her works
are in collection of many reputed art collectors and art institutions of
national and international reputation ona global level.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 21.0pt; text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRL0u4uC58ZZaj2hxhl7JpMXmfQiOS0B23mNX5HkNWtkOCVw1X5VLoCjC7NjRGkgC25EylUBQjpHcAENgzNznF8aGopgAnbm4DKsihm-2xudnMlO0N7XHNZQcEKVA9cTlanT02la-_8qtrvZHWLTiSlWeaVYBQPAYq1vNu070ri09VfIc9lBiWDZDYRIo/s872/09.%20Mixed%20medium%20on%20canvas.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="870" data-original-width="872" height="463" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRL0u4uC58ZZaj2hxhl7JpMXmfQiOS0B23mNX5HkNWtkOCVw1X5VLoCjC7NjRGkgC25EylUBQjpHcAENgzNznF8aGopgAnbm4DKsihm-2xudnMlO0N7XHNZQcEKVA9cTlanT02la-_8qtrvZHWLTiSlWeaVYBQPAYq1vNu070ri09VfIc9lBiWDZDYRIo/w464-h463/09.%20Mixed%20medium%20on%20canvas.jpeg" width="464" /></a></div><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 21.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> <b>Maitrry
Shah</b> has worked in various mediums like oil, acrylic, charcoal and
mixed media. Her distinct style captures the range of human emotions with a
particular emphasis on the expressions of women. Her brushstrokes convey not
only a youthful exuberance but also a wideopen optimism which often resonate
through her paintings. Each artwork serves as a window into the innermost
thoughts, emotions and a varied experience of human psyche inviting all to
engage into visual inspection, conversation, introspection and empathy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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She has presented a diverse collection of her paintings in this show that truly
demonstrate a wide range of universal truths and realms of life in order to
contemplate the themes of anticipation, longing, liberation and introspection
in the relevant perspectives of arts.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Deeply fascinated by the intricate nuances of human emotions and wide range of
real life experiences, she has created a rich tapestry of human psyche in her
creative and innovative endeavours. Each work has been imbued with symbolism,
meaning and emotional mindscape of a young sensitive woman in different
environments and perspectives. In a way, this presentation of typical artwork
is her sensitive ode to the rich tapestry and a spectrum of human psyche and
its several facets and norms in apt perspectives of visual arts. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">From: 19<sup>th</sup> to 25<sup>th</sup> February 2024<o:p></o:p></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">"Windows of Inner Expressions”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Art Exhibition by contemporary artist <b>Maitrry P Shah</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><b><u><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">VENUE:</span></u></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Jehangir Art Gallery<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Hirji Gallery </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">161-B, M.G. Road</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Kala Ghoda, Mumbai 400 001 </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Timing: 11am to 7pm</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 21pt; text-align: center;">
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><br /><p></p>Art Blogazinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05784762999278115873noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2709396143721111492.post-80215898221212664882024-02-10T22:21:00.000-08:002024-02-10T22:21:25.111-08:00New York: John Wesley World: Works on Paper and Objects 1961–2004 / On View Jan 12 – Feb 24, 2024<p><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">On view from January 12 to
February 24, 2024 at 540 West 25th Street in New York, this exhibition will
bring together over 30 works on paper and painted objects produced by Wesley
over the course of his career, from the early 1960s to the early 2000s.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Wesley, who died in 2022 at age
93, is known for his flattened, idiosyncratic figurations that defy easy
classification within any single artistic movement. Drawing inspiration from
images in comics and other mass media, the artist cultivated a distinctive,
graphic style characterized by bold, weighted lines, unmodulated color, and an
absurdist- edge.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Marked by eroticism, wry humor,
and often a slight sense of unease, Wesley’s work explores a wide range of
imagery informed by pop cultural and literary sources as well as the artist’s
own memories and daily experiences. Many of his works are concerned with
enactments of balance and symmetry, examining nuances of sexuality and desire
through a formal language characterized by unexpected crispness and precision.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5bSKl_G2SHc21mx4nZ41AEv5J5MLHSxCd7I_4G_xyMrZfRE8XC4NJMTPpwzo5jE9NjPAGvyP-eg4Sz8R5JPwUgTYGw7YzpkMcIbLQo6ydg9UDCe-sogP-UMJyQM2ABUG82NEmazYYnplAj66euRaGLq8_276cquBkE4S3osTHSmtW40WwghLIc4DYrxA/s1000/John%20Wesley.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="772" data-original-width="1000" height="422" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5bSKl_G2SHc21mx4nZ41AEv5J5MLHSxCd7I_4G_xyMrZfRE8XC4NJMTPpwzo5jE9NjPAGvyP-eg4Sz8R5JPwUgTYGw7YzpkMcIbLQo6ydg9UDCe-sogP-UMJyQM2ABUG82NEmazYYnplAj66euRaGLq8_276cquBkE4S3osTHSmtW40WwghLIc4DYrxA/w547-h422/John%20Wesley.jpg" width="547" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> John Wesley </td></tr></tbody></table><br /></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Read More About This Exhibition<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">“The puzzling, open-ended
ambiguity of Wesley’s depictions encourages expansive gestures of critique,
whatever their ultimate merits,” art historian Richard Shiff writes in a newly
commissioned essay for Pace Publishing’s digital catalogue accompanying the
gallery’s Wesley exhibition. “To a theorist, his art readily demonstrates that
interpretation has no limits, for every nuance of graphic difference initiates
multiple interpretive threads with the potential to lead just about anywhere.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Wesley produced a large body of
landscapes regularly depicting tranquil shorelines and stormy seascapes, but
also rolling hills and urban skylines. In his figurations, the human body and
its constituent parts are often used to experiment with repetition as a formal
device. Wesley also frequently reimagined characters from popular culture— most
notably Dagwood Bumstead and his wife Blondie from the Blondie comic strip—in
scenes across his body of work.<o:p></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8WynsayQ9vAeru6gzLsFJLZegm_icEZ-WQ_JoC7Lg_69NsON2fyVTt9Zqb7JZZwD52_0TNmaIqUzGfF6SbQs-AO0a8lyzP6xCvnqJnkaZ48oTebZj-SByhjfAtK2p_SioWHQpy2bbwu-zephIpuOuIfs1NsCTfRLibOk1n2zbjEEuWKAm6GiY0XpdFhE/s2000/pace.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1300" data-original-width="2000" height="377" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8WynsayQ9vAeru6gzLsFJLZegm_icEZ-WQ_JoC7Lg_69NsON2fyVTt9Zqb7JZZwD52_0TNmaIqUzGfF6SbQs-AO0a8lyzP6xCvnqJnkaZ48oTebZj-SByhjfAtK2p_SioWHQpy2bbwu-zephIpuOuIfs1NsCTfRLibOk1n2zbjEEuWKAm6GiY0XpdFhE/w581-h377/pace.jpg" width="581" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">“His often caustic wit also has a
warm-heartedness to it when the topic demands, and his sense of comedy is no
less pronounced than his sense of tragedy,” art historian Martin Hentschel
wrote in his 2005 publication on Wesley’s works on paper, continuing later, “He
directed his gaze above all to the human condition, with all its peaks,
ambiguities, and abysses.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Pace’s upcoming exhibition will
showcase the varied scales of Wesley’s works on paper, allowing visitors to
experience the impressive range of form and imagery through which he
experimented with repeating, layering, and mirroring—formal mainstays of his
paintings. Though the works on view in the show span Wesley’s career, they
reveal a remarkable consistency in his approach to image-making over the course
of five decades. Tracing the evolution of the artist’s interests over time,
these artworks shed light on the different subjects that entered his visual
lexicon between the 1960s and 2000s.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">The show will take a broad view
of Wesley’s life and career, spotlighting several objects by the
artist—including a canvas vest and a selection of paper neckties—in addition to
his works on paper. These rarely exhibited and, in some cases,
never-before-exhibited pieces feature patterns and motifs that are often
mirrored in the artist’s works on paper and paintings, reflecting his ability
to translate his signature style across mediums and dimensions.<o:p></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0X9ChKuOGPjOE-bkIDA0Zywtf4wxyWiiLJvn7-gBqDuAiYj8WgfjVJKjopcZ2FKwbOgLbd399I92yi_XUNM-fRHq_KvsmPU3YeLALBQohg815z0F_5fbmoQZVMAPQ_uru6mKPmTHS6WwrT8_Cwdvm0oxmw8NmV90WezBJI2yqbOhL_B3-OHgVm0KBIHo/s1100/pace_1gallery.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="824" data-original-width="1100" height="509" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0X9ChKuOGPjOE-bkIDA0Zywtf4wxyWiiLJvn7-gBqDuAiYj8WgfjVJKjopcZ2FKwbOgLbd399I92yi_XUNM-fRHq_KvsmPU3YeLALBQohg815z0F_5fbmoQZVMAPQ_uru6mKPmTHS6WwrT8_Cwdvm0oxmw8NmV90WezBJI2yqbOhL_B3-OHgVm0KBIHo/w678-h509/pace_1gallery.jpg" width="678" /></a></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b>About the Artist</b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">A unique voice in the canon of
Contemporary art, John Wesley is known for his precise, lyrical, and often
deadpan painterly investigations of the American subconscious. With no formal
artistic training, two of Wesley’s jobs had a direct impact on his early
practice.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">At the age of 24, he began
working as an illustrator in the Production Engineering Department at Northrop
Aircraft in Los Angeles where he translated blueprints into drawings. In 1960,
he moved to New York, where he worked as a postal clerk, utilizing symbols such
as the shield-like postage stamp and his employee badge in his paintings.
Later, his practice expanded to incorporate varied and enigmatic iconographies
such as animals, beguiling women, and portraiture of subjects including
Theodore Roosevelt, Rudyard Kipling, and Count Henri de Baillet-Latour, the
president of the 1932 International Olympic Committee. Through a carefully
refined visual vocabulary of clean lines, solid shapes, and repetition, Wesley
imbued everyday scenes and quotidian subjects with humor and wry wit. Exploring
themes relating to trauma, eroticism, innocence, and coyness, paintings within
his oeuvre are characterized by a linear stylized formation, similar to comic
strips, and are often populated with cartoon characters such as Dagwood
Bumstead, Popeye, and Olive Oyl. His series, Searching for Bumstead, which he
began in 1974 and continued for the entirety of his career, depicts empty
interiors—including a vacant armchair, slippers by a bedside, a bathtub filled
with water—and is an exploration of the trauma of losing his father, whose
sudden death deeply affected him.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMGdfWpZRofhzyn6QX_gQuYSnfT0BE6YP0JUO9_jigP9E8YNu87Wp3SBnbAMDzaKPFHIPVnxXS_IbUprQxDsuO4kNgMaHaxEypi7uJJKsoHxYtpoARX0TN1laO9yp-GhBR4rc4OfOVwNBZDem_Zae3SEkcEvMU7KsWFmUCm0qgslDCCW7kb94W2C_jLgc/s1853/pace_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="987" data-original-width="1853" height="291" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMGdfWpZRofhzyn6QX_gQuYSnfT0BE6YP0JUO9_jigP9E8YNu87Wp3SBnbAMDzaKPFHIPVnxXS_IbUprQxDsuO4kNgMaHaxEypi7uJJKsoHxYtpoARX0TN1laO9yp-GhBR4rc4OfOVwNBZDem_Zae3SEkcEvMU7KsWFmUCm0qgslDCCW7kb94W2C_jLgc/w547-h291/pace_1.jpg" width="547" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Wesley defies categorization as
an artist. During the 1960s, as the tenets of Pop art began to take shape, he
was grouped with the movement due to the basic elements of his style and
subject matter. Wesley exhibited alongside Pop artists such as Andy Warhol, Tom
Wesselman, and Roy Lichtenstein but ultimately eluded true categorization both
in theory and in practice due to his unique visual language. His first solo
exhibition was at the Robert Elkon Gallery, New York, in 1963. Minimalist
artist Donald Judd, a lifelong supporter of the artist, reviewed the paintings
in the show: “the forms selected and shapes to which they are unobtrusively
altered, the order used, and the small details are humorous and goofy. This
becomes a cool, psychological oddness.” [1] Wesley was given his own room at
the Documenta 5 Retrospective at Kassel (1972) and by the mid 70s it became
clear that his work lay somewhere between Pop, Surrealism, and Minimalism,
though no label ever encapsulated his singular style. Wesley’s contributions to
painting are undeniable and his work is held in public collections worldwide
including the Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture
Garden, WashingtonD.C.; Kunstmuseum, Basel; The Museum of Modern Art, New York;
and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, among others.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p>On view from January 12 to February 24, 2024 at 540 West 25th Street in New
York, this exhibition will bring together over 30 works on paper and painted
objects produced by Wesley over the course of his career, from the early 1960s
to the early 2000s.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p>Art Blogazinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05784762999278115873noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2709396143721111492.post-17355475725371406642024-02-09T07:41:00.000-08:002024-02-09T07:41:34.915-08:00Japan- “Cut Pieces,” a solo exhibition of works by Fuyuhiko Takata<p><span style="color: #393e46; font-family: Syne; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;">Evocative of myths,
legends, fairy tales, and other fantasy worlds, Takata creates vibrantly rich narratives
through his self-produced cinematic pieces. Deceptively simple and often
profoundly humorous, he meticulously crafts each vignette, often transforming
his tiny apartment into elaborate homemade film sets while sculpting his own
intricate and colorful props, which are themselves works of art. Directing,
filming, narrating, and even acting in his videos, he is a visual storyteller
whose elaborate visions playfully interrogate social questions around power,
nation, gender, and sexuality. Resonating with subtle and often poetic
critique, these works are theatrical, poignant glimpses into alternate
universes that challenge our understandings of contemporary society in Japan
and worldwide.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipBYKSy8w0de6O8-GbK5BFHsILKwRdcQW2o-PI1nd78ygY62UCRcUxF_T0Re0CCGIy_01udDMtX8MNB1PzToXyD4mNScvdUI3A2kcpTCD_cgvqB8Mghsw7zPryvIooHLxXi6Re9epdZ_-JCVfo9eoN6hXIOtzq9Z-6C4797gngqOVy7GH1oLFvloBO5r8/s2790/Cut_Suits02.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1786" data-original-width="2790" height="409" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipBYKSy8w0de6O8-GbK5BFHsILKwRdcQW2o-PI1nd78ygY62UCRcUxF_T0Re0CCGIy_01udDMtX8MNB1PzToXyD4mNScvdUI3A2kcpTCD_cgvqB8Mghsw7zPryvIooHLxXi6Re9epdZ_-JCVfo9eoN6hXIOtzq9Z-6C4797gngqOVy7GH1oLFvloBO5r8/w638-h409/Cut_Suits02.jpg" width="638" /></a></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 18.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #393e46; font-family: Syne; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Cut Pieces” for Art Basel Hong Kong 2024, is
an installation and video exhibition that highlights two of Takata’s most
recent companion works, The Butterfly Dream (2022) and a latest video titled
Cut Suits (2023). The first is a piece in which the artist poetically alludes
to “Dream of the Butterfly,” an episode from the Chinese classic Zhuangzi, in
which the protagonist dreams he has metamorphosed into a butterfly. Nodding to
the landmark work of Yoko Ono, Takata conjures up a fantastical scene in which
a hybrid butterfly-scissors chimera flaps its wings as it slices away the
clothing of a sleeping young man, raising profound philosophical questions
around not only the dialectical relationship of power to pleasure but also the
rigid inhibitions surrounding masculinity itself. Cut Suits, meanwhile, is a
sequel that further develops this deconstruction by literally excising the
superficial trappings of institutionalized male power. In this work, six men
clad in business attire delight in snipping away with scissors at each other’s
suits, shirts, and ties, while cheerful music plays enchantingly in the
background. This nonviolent and even whimsical ritual hints at liberatory
themes of shedding, hatching, and unleashing that so prominently recur
throughout Takata’s opus. As a monument to the messiness and difficulty
entailed in unraveling the patriarchy, these scrapped and tattered garments
sheared from the bodies of the film’s characters will be heaped in front of the
screen, a gravesite of molted manhood. Nearby this pile of detritus, the booth
will also feature the butterfly scissors sculpture that appears in the first
film<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 18.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG1cpH9wLM7KG9PbKAaxjgCaVNwzPJ7y9aJCYnuxj6VYYiB5JAT1qLK-YnvqKWL5cB7dWdbhIko6KDzzSmodrD69EfJiT03_veHyjRfq2IgPE1CB-z-tXmEZnKhUh94Mk4DWPLUjX3-eVq-ZyIN7f36huGfAXv2tPlqgnxUn752iZ5iSIpN0JUH99ea08/s4496/Cut_Suits01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2525" data-original-width="4496" height="382" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG1cpH9wLM7KG9PbKAaxjgCaVNwzPJ7y9aJCYnuxj6VYYiB5JAT1qLK-YnvqKWL5cB7dWdbhIko6KDzzSmodrD69EfJiT03_veHyjRfq2IgPE1CB-z-tXmEZnKhUh94Mk4DWPLUjX3-eVq-ZyIN7f36huGfAXv2tPlqgnxUn752iZ5iSIpN0JUH99ea08/w679-h382/Cut_Suits01.jpg" width="679" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fuyuhiko Takata, Cut Suits, 2023, installation view ©︎Fuyuhiko Takata, courtesy of the artist and WAITINGROOM</td></tr></tbody></table></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 18.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #393e46; font-family: Syne; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Referencing both
Duchamp’s famous “Cemetery of Uniforms and Liveries” motif, which represents
the symbolization and stereotyping of masculinity and femininity, Takata also
alludes to the practice of minimalist sculptor Robert Morris, who littered his
exhibition sites with shredded fabric. The artist thus brings Western art into
conversation with his identity as a Japanese contemporary artist by fetishizing
the figure of the “salaryman,” the icon of corporate masculinity in Japan, so
often imagined packed into rush-hour trains like sushi. Teasingly cutting away
at the threads that shackle these souls to destinies of heteronormativity and
capitalist machismo, he humanizes them and rescues their innocent joy
enshrouded just beneath the surface<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 18.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #393e46; font-family: Syne; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">WAITINGROOM
Discoveries Sector, Booth 1C43 Solo Presentation of Fuyuhiko Takata (</span><span style="color: #393e46; font-family: "MS Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Gothic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">高田冬彦</span><span style="color: #393e46; font-family: Syne; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">)
Show Title: Cut Pieces WAITINGROOM is pleased to present<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 18.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #393e46; font-family: Syne; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> “Cut Pieces,”
a solo exhibition of works by Fuyuhiko Takata</span><span style="color: #393e46; font-family: "MS Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Gothic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">(高田冬彦)</span><span style="color: #393e46; font-family: Syne; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">,
a Tokyo-based artist born in 1987 in Hiroshima, Japan, in the Discoveries
Sector (Booth 1C43) at Art Basel Hong Kong 2024.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>Art Blogazinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05784762999278115873noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2709396143721111492.post-30970295758376041772024-02-09T07:28:00.000-08:002024-02-09T07:28:52.206-08:00Chen Ting-Shih March 21 - 25, 2024 Art Basel Hong Kong Insights 3D30<p> <b style="text-align: justify;">Printmaking Leader Integrating Eastern and Western</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">In Chen Ting-Shih's prints, we
can observe numerous influences from Chinese painting. The extensive use of
black immediately brings to black ink, and the juxtaposition of black with
other visible colors like white, yellow, red, and blue corresponds to
traditional Chinese colors that represent directions. Through the titles of the
works that connect with time and the universe, the images of the sun and moon
in the works can be constructed into abstract landscapes representing day and
night. This transformation is also present in Chen's totem prints, where the
totems are closely related to calligraphy and written characters. The typical
landscape patterns seen in traditional Chinese scroll paintings become lines,
neither resembling characters nor rocks and flowing water. This represents
Chen's unique artistic interpretation of Chinese art.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiTumdCo0PwQHhI3-kLo4_o-1G3DlIklGTRO66Fo0hsgh0ox6ki7MXURFsGBrHrNg_C-a3h2Tsz2-NK7zqC_FCEOOOvyke4gZiADPm6kbZrvMdxqLFF0Vw__4TyR6wBS2Hg9QN9jWKQ0DfbRg79ei8KI6wUjOWNXVq70YNkmwlFVqEY6Xk8AZ6fGjj_Gs/s1066/%E9%99%B3%E5%BA%AD%E8%A9%A9%20Chen%20Ting-Shih,%20%E6%84%8F%E5%BF%97%201%20Will%201,%201973,%20%E7%94%98%E8%94%97%E6%9D%BF%E7%89%88%E7%95%AB%20cane%20fibre%20board%20relief%20print%20on%20paper,%2062%20x%2062%20cm,%20edition%201%20of%2025,%20courtesy%20of%20Each%20Modern.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1055" data-original-width="1066" height="485" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiTumdCo0PwQHhI3-kLo4_o-1G3DlIklGTRO66Fo0hsgh0ox6ki7MXURFsGBrHrNg_C-a3h2Tsz2-NK7zqC_FCEOOOvyke4gZiADPm6kbZrvMdxqLFF0Vw__4TyR6wBS2Hg9QN9jWKQ0DfbRg79ei8KI6wUjOWNXVq70YNkmwlFVqEY6Xk8AZ6fGjj_Gs/w489-h485/%E9%99%B3%E5%BA%AD%E8%A9%A9%20Chen%20Ting-Shih,%20%E6%84%8F%E5%BF%97%201%20Will%201,%201973,%20%E7%94%98%E8%94%97%E6%9D%BF%E7%89%88%E7%95%AB%20cane%20fibre%20board%20relief%20print%20on%20paper,%2062%20x%2062%20cm,%20edition%201%20of%2025,%20courtesy%20of%20Each%20Modern.jpg" width="489" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">陳庭詩 Chen Ting-Shih, 意志 1 Will 1, 1973, 甘蔗板版畫 cane fibre board relief print on paper, 62 x 62 cm, edition 1 of 25, courtesy of Each Modern</td></tr></tbody></table></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Chen's most well-known prints
are, in fact, a convergence of various regions and eras. Printmaking entered
China from Europe in the 1930s, sparked by the advocacy of the renowned writer
Lu Xun, which led to the initiation of the "woodcut movement." As a
medium entirely distinct from traditional Chinese painting and oil painting,
printmaking once symbolized a departure from tradition and, for a significant
period thereafter, was utilized as a tool for political propaganda due to its
reproducibility. This characteristic resonates with Chen's early involvement in
the publishing industry.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Since the 17th century, Taiwan
has been cultivating sugarcane, and this industry has experienced fluctuations
throughout different periods. In the heyday of the sugar industry in Taiwan
during the 1950s and 1960s, the residual cane fiber boards after sugar
production became the material for Chen's woodcut prints. Unlike other
professional printing materials, the use of such inexpensive and readily available
material reflects Chen's daily environment and background. It serves as both a
microcosm of a specific era and an experimental feature of working with
materials with minimal constraints.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Amidst the trend of pursuing
modernization and the integration of Eastern and Western elements at that time,
Chen did not simply use oil colors to depict an ink wash appearance. Instead,
he uniquely employed printmaking techniques. These prints may lean more towards
the practices of Western hard-edge art, with perfect separations between color
blocks. However, in Chen's printing, this perfection in separation is an
acceptance of differences, reflecting the spiritual refinement that the artist
cultivated from his life experiences.<o:p></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo6G10WqUEQoxX5OeTPFzrMpOKgwiqaxuA1wZIdnuGTuk2oOlcRpcr2BBcAiK7iSyD5YkR6al7vCiZ6tpaeroRCZz3pTWVxo9Fpvl2cI3sY7okRO6zE7_dhfOvSKc6aLlsiyOfr9SNL09hgu6NuLdFSYAxuxRq5erlm5AnGiZDBMZk94sLOYiBSEmC94I/s1200/ezgif.com-animated-gif-maker%20(6).gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1200" height="417" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo6G10WqUEQoxX5OeTPFzrMpOKgwiqaxuA1wZIdnuGTuk2oOlcRpcr2BBcAiK7iSyD5YkR6al7vCiZ6tpaeroRCZz3pTWVxo9Fpvl2cI3sY7okRO6zE7_dhfOvSKc6aLlsiyOfr9SNL09hgu6NuLdFSYAxuxRq5erlm5AnGiZDBMZk94sLOYiBSEmC94I/w626-h417/ezgif.com-animated-gif-maker%20(6).gif" width="626" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Pioneer of Asian Ready-Made Sculpture<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the early 20th century, Pablo Picasso and
Marcel Duchamp successively used ready-made objects as creative materials. As
modern art flowed into Asia, Asian artists began to explore the possibilities
of ready-made objects, with the most notable being the Japanese Mono-ha
movement of the 1960s. However, during the same period, Chen Ting-Shih, who had
already moved to Taiwan, also delved into the creation of ready-made sculptures
Inspired by Picasso's artwork "Bull's Head" (1942), Chen embarked on
an exploration of ready-made objects. As a former significant maritime hub,
Taiwan's maritime history dates back to the Ming and Zheng periods. After experiencing
Japanese rule and modernization in the 1950s, the rise of the shipbreaking
industry was facilitated by extensive manufacturing and the sinking of
warships, producing a surplus of shipwrecks in Taiwan. Similar to the cane
fiber boards of the sugar industry, these materials, rich in symbolic
representations of their time, became a source of inspiration for Chen's
artistic creations.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Chen's iron sculpture creations
reached their peak in the 1980s after he relocated to Taichung. Commuting
between Taichung and the shipbreaking industrial area in Kaohsiung, he
collected scrap iron and industrial waste, then welded and assembled them in
his studio. The rough iron pieces, covered in reddish-brown rust stains, might
seem solid and heavy, but in his compositions, they appear light and graceful.
Gears, iron chains, structures, egg cake molds, and unidentifiable objects –
they respond to the circles and lines in his prints and serve as the artist's
expression of the sun, moon, and stars. These seemingly cosmic symbols and
relics may also reveal the aspirations of humanity toward space exploration
during that time.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">In the realm of Asian art, which
values craftsmanship and refined aesthetics, Chen's departure from intricate
techniques in his ready-made iron sculptures can be considered pioneering for
his time. He stands as one of the earliest Chinese artists in the realm of
ready-made art, setting him apart from other renowned Asian artists in this
genre. While Mono<span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span><!--[endif]--></span>ha emphasizes the
visual representation of raw materials and Nam June Paik's ready-made art
centers on conceptual expression, Chen's iron sculptures possess a more organic
quality. Each component appears to grow seemingly haphazardly, yet carries a
strong geometric consciousness, conveying the pure and tranquil essence found
in his prints. Most notably, Chen's iron sculptures retain traces of human
activities and historical heritage specific to a certain time and space.<o:p></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVo_2I9_AOtT7oIV9Etyks9Mi_SVpw3EAMAW39FvCenv76ZaaCHo2FT3mR60nvEhcL2bwvEzodHbMJ_a_1Ocq7ccGqqO9GYwarlDK0Egh_9XELS_v4Hb2Dy0D7Jmv36tpkL-HeFhIpDUphJmncHfOUfI4mwJKYchswsff6_D5DOBBPDERVCO4CX1lF-Xo/s1200/ezgif.com-animated-gif-maker%20(5).gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="935" height="625" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVo_2I9_AOtT7oIV9Etyks9Mi_SVpw3EAMAW39FvCenv76ZaaCHo2FT3mR60nvEhcL2bwvEzodHbMJ_a_1Ocq7ccGqqO9GYwarlDK0Egh_9XELS_v4Hb2Dy0D7Jmv36tpkL-HeFhIpDUphJmncHfOUfI4mwJKYchswsff6_D5DOBBPDERVCO4CX1lF-Xo/w486-h625/ezgif.com-animated-gif-maker%20(5).gif" width="486" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Experiment with Acrylic on Paper <o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">During the dominance of abstract
art by the United States during the Cold War, many Taiwanese artists ventured
abroad, marking a new chapter in Chinese art. As early as 1959, Chen Ting-Shih
was selected to participate in the São Paulo Biennial and continued to exhibit
there for several years. His international engagements also included important
print biennials and ink-themed exhibitions in the United States, Japan, Italy,
the United Kingdom, South Korea, and other countries. He emerged as one of the
most representative Chinese artists of that era on the global stage. In 1976,
Chen was invited to reside in the United States for a year. Apart from
exhibiting locally, he absorbed the diversity of Western abstract painting.
Upon his return to Taiwan, Chen began creating acrylic on paper that
incorporates Western pigments into traditional ink art. However, his color ink
works remained intertwined with printmaking, with similar color blocks and
recurring circles consistently showcasing the artist's consistency. It is a
representation of the cyclical nature of all things in the passage of time, and
a reflection on the potential expressions within Chinese ink art. From
printmaking to color ink and iron sculpture, Chen continued to stimulate
himself through various artistic mediums, each evoking different chemical
reactions within his creative process.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">The Artist in the Era of Great
Changes Chen Ting-Shih (1913-2002), witnessed significant transformations in
Chinese modern history during the first half of his life. Born in 1913 in
Changle, Fuzhou, Chen experienced a childhood marked by deafness due to an
accident. He graduated from the Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts (now Nanjing
University of the Arts). During the Sino-Japanese War, he used cartoons as a
means of artistic expression. In 1945, Chen moved to Taiwan, where he continued
his involvement in the publishing industry through cartoons. In 1947, he became
a witness to the turbulent times in Taiwan and maintained himself as a quiet
and contemplative existence over the following decade. In the late 1950s, as
the Ton Fan Group and the Fifth Moon Group that Chen joined later sought to
subvert traditional ink painting, Chen, who focused on woodblock prints,
collaborated with artists like Qin Song, Li XiQi, and Yang YingFeng to
establish the Chinese Modern Printmaking Group. They brought a more modernistic
approach to printmaking from Taiwan to the international stage, participating
in events such as the São Paulo Biennial and various.<o:p></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEJqjqTaVZe8kwUWQ0kgJZk1GTzF42_S3Wbx4gQZJZX9pObDbZHPwgxUgFnbk2qyl12LyWX-wYKXEdgUczUFoF3_exNngMXtQz9Sgl2N3lU2b72vqYbde7vrjJSmImu-Q1evlIJ3jXV3slCXWug_fLdbQVo3wEMYmKiOAZ7sW2gI-zutMbhMl9gE764F8/s2064/%E9%99%B3%E5%BA%AD%E8%A9%A9%20Chen%20Ting-Shih,%20%E5%A4%A9%E7%90%B4%20Harp,%201980%20-%201990,%20%E9%90%B5%20iron,%2083%20x%2064.6%20x%2035%20cm,%20,%20courtesy%20of%20Each%20Modern,%20photo%20by%20LAN%20Chung-Hsuan.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1377" data-original-width="2064" height="362" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEJqjqTaVZe8kwUWQ0kgJZk1GTzF42_S3Wbx4gQZJZX9pObDbZHPwgxUgFnbk2qyl12LyWX-wYKXEdgUczUFoF3_exNngMXtQz9Sgl2N3lU2b72vqYbde7vrjJSmImu-Q1evlIJ3jXV3slCXWug_fLdbQVo3wEMYmKiOAZ7sW2gI-zutMbhMl9gE764F8/w544-h362/%E9%99%B3%E5%BA%AD%E8%A9%A9%20Chen%20Ting-Shih,%20%E5%A4%A9%E7%90%B4%20Harp,%201980%20-%201990,%20%E9%90%B5%20iron,%2083%20x%2064.6%20x%2035%20cm,%20,%20courtesy%20of%20Each%20Modern,%20photo%20by%20LAN%20Chung-Hsuan.jpg" width="544" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCS_O9CVdFgxDhVqyQVyo1YSMT7IKfiJKNzrXgTxXzLoxbY9zJV_8fILbYsETtaDqgJqJ94rDQkT7Yzjomo0NuzUWHt_kV556INCKseGXot8ZY5myyucOb_9RLu5s5VMo6p79R2YXeMKiHfh_XlmVAKLMWe8iuWlX9RNA_loU9H4ojpl_XgKilIm1FH38/s2524/%E9%99%B3%E5%BA%AD%E8%A9%A9%20Chen%20Ting-Shih,%20%E8%80%80%20Shine,%201998,%20%E9%90%B5%20iron,%2070.2%20x%2045%20x%2026.5%20cm,%20courtesy%20of%20Each%20Modern,%20photo%20by%20LAN%20Chung-Hsuan%20(1).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1683" data-original-width="2524" height="362" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCS_O9CVdFgxDhVqyQVyo1YSMT7IKfiJKNzrXgTxXzLoxbY9zJV_8fILbYsETtaDqgJqJ94rDQkT7Yzjomo0NuzUWHt_kV556INCKseGXot8ZY5myyucOb_9RLu5s5VMo6p79R2YXeMKiHfh_XlmVAKLMWe8iuWlX9RNA_loU9H4ojpl_XgKilIm1FH38/w544-h362/%E9%99%B3%E5%BA%AD%E8%A9%A9%20Chen%20Ting-Shih,%20%E8%80%80%20Shine,%201998,%20%E9%90%B5%20iron,%2070.2%20x%2045%20x%2026.5%20cm,%20courtesy%20of%20Each%20Modern,%20photo%20by%20LAN%20Chung-Hsuan%20(1).jpg" width="544" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">influential printmaking biennials
worldwide. By the late 1960s, Chen ventured into sculpture by using found
materials. One of his most well-known endeavors was visiting the shipbreaking
industrial zone in Kaohsiung, where he collected discarded ship parts to use as
materials for his sculptures. This marked a significant shift in his artistic
practice, showcasing his ability to adapt and innovate across different mediums
and materials.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">The social upheavals that Chen
experienced infused his works with a sense of effortless grandeur: the
restrained and profound linocuts with minimal abstract color blocks eloquently
speak of the harmony between all things and the passage of time; the totem prints
emphasize the importance of Eastern lines while detaching from the narrative
text of the symbols; the rough ready-made sculptures, a pioneering effort in
Asia at the time, naturally and effortlessly reconfigured their appearances.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">In 2002, Chen passed away in
Taichung, leaving behind a rich number of prints and sculptures. Today, there
is a growing interest and continued research into Chen's works. In an era
dominated by representational art reflecting contemporary issues, Chen's
creations, interpreting the perception of the universe through abstraction and
Eastern impressions, stand out as a rare and pure expression that is almost
vanishing in the contemporary art scene. This underscores the significant
spiritual value of his works in the present day.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Chen's works are collected by
numerous prominent private collectors in Taiwan and are also part of the
collections of major institutions such as the Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts,
Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, and Citibank Taiwan. Internationally,
institutions that collect Chen's works span a wide range, including the
Rockefeller Foundation, Cincinnati Art Museum, ABN AMRO Hong Kong, Chase Bank
Hong Kong, IBM Corporation, and various other art and non-art institutions. In
the international auction market, major auction houses have successfully sold
works by Chen, with Sotheby's several dedicated auctions. His auction record
reached its peak in terms of total sales and prices in the year of 2020.<o:p></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhai0iaJRRmcxCTW0xTc160mJgUdk7H3E2i9rIcbNPVKQmg3fMc1YrgOChrNYAHpiiKo7qgxVGOCOapADGI-Az_Rc4J7Xc_f5o2b1jQKWdHzHru6y7ZvQpoN5X8YCMHvCbFCpkRF7W1pmbNGQLDpoQCZUqrTUYeB4XgACYEgzHy00AXMZUX0oMcMPPN24/s568/Chen%20Ting-Shih.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="426" data-original-width="568" height="365" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhai0iaJRRmcxCTW0xTc160mJgUdk7H3E2i9rIcbNPVKQmg3fMc1YrgOChrNYAHpiiKo7qgxVGOCOapADGI-Az_Rc4J7Xc_f5o2b1jQKWdHzHru6y7ZvQpoN5X8YCMHvCbFCpkRF7W1pmbNGQLDpoQCZUqrTUYeB4XgACYEgzHy00AXMZUX0oMcMPPN24/w486-h365/Chen%20Ting-Shih.jpg" width="486" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b>Each Modern is pleased to present a solo booth by Chinese artist Chen Ting-Shih at the "Insights" sector of 2024 Art Basel Hong Kong.</b><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Chen’s art traverses the realms of poetic contemplation and found materials, pioneering a distinct Eastern expressiveness through printmaking, iron sculptures, and color ink paintings.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Artblogazine</p>Art Blogazinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05784762999278115873noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2709396143721111492.post-25989121109791335912024-02-05T03:58:00.000-08:002024-02-05T03:58:58.130-08:00 India Art Fair 2024 features 109 exhibitors, including 72 galleries and major regional and international art institutions.<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">India Art Fair, the leading
platform showcasing modern and contemporary art from India and South Asia,
opens its 15th edition today at the NSIC Exhibition Grounds in New Delhi with
an invitation-only VIP preview. Running from 1 to 4 February 2024 and led in
partnership with BMW India, India Art Fair 2024 features 109 exhibitors,
including 72 galleries and major regional and international art institutions.
The fair welcomes a total of 31 new exhibitors, including 7 new design studios
in its first ever collectible Design section. For its biggest edition yet,
India Art Fair continues in its mission to showcase the best of modern and
contemporary South Asian art alongside major contemporary international artists
whilst adding handmade and limited edition design by pioneering studios for the
first time, solidifying its position as the leading platform for art and
culture in the region. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jaya Asokan</b>, Fair Director, India Art Fair says, “We are excited to
be opening our doors today and welcoming our visitors, exhibitors, artists,
patrons and collectors to this landmark edition of India Art Fair. For the past
15 years, the fair has been a celebration of the very best of South Asian
creativity, and in 2024 we are taking this even further with our biggest
edition yet and the inauguration of our very first Design section.
Complementing the gallery displays, we are also hosting our most ambitious
programme of commissions, projects, talks and workshops yet, showcasing the
diversity and power of artistic talent from across India and the wider region<o:p></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFjo1Gd3pngQHGjiPheX2kMAr_jcXbAT6F2VhQLWkB4s5OGW3conEL3yqSxIeK6VZtw5xMp6zHYUumwTnFAtYzIoub1TbMCwYC2ITXjlyomv7KAK1tZYhVm5zpx24pp5cPhni8B9ehHY9oMgXriMR0GGnWRwWBE_khs2EZ7SF4jkY2qEEGktdGkSL7Q84/s2560/Visitor-at-Nature-Morte-Booth-courtesy-of-India-Art-Fair-4-scaled.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1708" data-original-width="2560" height="474" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFjo1Gd3pngQHGjiPheX2kMAr_jcXbAT6F2VhQLWkB4s5OGW3conEL3yqSxIeK6VZtw5xMp6zHYUumwTnFAtYzIoub1TbMCwYC2ITXjlyomv7KAK1tZYhVm5zpx24pp5cPhni8B9ehHY9oMgXriMR0GGnWRwWBE_khs2EZ7SF4jkY2qEEGktdGkSL7Q84/w707-h474/Visitor-at-Nature-Morte-Booth-courtesy-of-India-Art-Fair-4-scaled.jpg" width="707" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">EXHIBITOR HIGHLIGHTS</b> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">India Art Fair 2024 features some
of India’s most important contemporary galleries alongside established
international names showcasing rare masterpieces and contemporary works, as
well as examples drawing from South Asia’s traditional arts heritage. Top
Indian galleries show masterpieces by Indian modernists including Jamini Roy
(Chawla Art Gallery, Dhoomimal Gallery, DAG), G. R. Santosh (DAG), Ram Kumar
(Sanchit Art) and Ganesh Haloi (Akar Prakar, Sanchit Art), in addition to works
by Company School painters like Sewak Ram (DAG), lesser known modernists such
as B. Prabha, Radha Charan Bagchi (both DAG) and Rustom Siodia (Chatterjee
& Lal), and senior contemporary artists such as Thota Vaikuntam and Manu Parekh
(both Art Alive Gallery and Gallerie Nvya). Also on view are South Asian
artists with a global presence including Gauri Gill (Vadehra Art Gallery), Rana
Begum (Jhaveri Contemporary), Dayanita Singh (Nature Morte), Ayesha Sultana
(Experimenter), Tayeba Begum Lipi (Shrine Empire) and Mithu Sen (Chemould
Prescott Road), as well as emerging artists working across diverse mediums such
as T. Venkanna (Gallery Maskara), Isha Pimpalkhare (Tao Art Gallery), Ketaki
Sarpotdar (Latitude 28), Harsha Durugadda (Emami Art, The Arts Family) and
Rajyashri Goody (GALLERYSKE). New artists at the fair include Jatinder Singh
Durhailay (Anant Art) showing contemporary miniatures, J. Demsky (Method)
bringing futuristic works, textile artist Akshata Mokashi (Galerie Splash), photographer
Tenzing Dakpa (Indigo+Madder), printmaker Jayati Kaushik (Exhibit 320) and
installation artist Jonathan Trayte (Akara Contemporary). <o:p></o:p></p>
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the fair show renowned South Asian artists in the diaspora and working from countries
in the region beyond India, including Rina Banerjee (1x1 Art Gallery, Dubai),
Waqas Khan (Aicon, New York), Amba Sayal-Bennet (Indigo+Madder, London), Affan
Baghpati (Aicon Contemporary, New York), and Arjuna Gunarathne and Firi Rahman
(Saskia Fernando Gallery, Colombo), alongside international powerhouses such as
Olafur Eliasson (neugerriemschneider, Berlin), Anish Kapoor (Galleria Continua,
San Gimignano & 7 locations) and Ozioma Onuzulike (Marc Straus, New York).<o:p></o:p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicm7S5zoLsN5imJs82DevVwv6LqVra9HObhqRVnkB5epTDgQjcIQVoWX7jz5qqomlCVfAzSY55PxA1QYeQXxLibS7XtB3qfDIRbc0IOEBd9-yZNKmSRoTnRZ3LVHqZz3b11g11Ag65OlIRp7d3cQ52iwdqDt0BF7LfN8KbMBLOU70MWMom6V0RhrzjQgc/s2560/Visitor-at-Gallery-Art-Exposure-Booth-courtesy-of-India-Art-Fair-2-scaled.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1708" data-original-width="2560" height="423" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicm7S5zoLsN5imJs82DevVwv6LqVra9HObhqRVnkB5epTDgQjcIQVoWX7jz5qqomlCVfAzSY55PxA1QYeQXxLibS7XtB3qfDIRbc0IOEBd9-yZNKmSRoTnRZ3LVHqZz3b11g11Ag65OlIRp7d3cQ52iwdqDt0BF7LfN8KbMBLOU70MWMom6V0RhrzjQgc/w631-h423/Visitor-at-Gallery-Art-Exposure-Booth-courtesy-of-India-Art-Fair-2-scaled.jpg" width="631" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">About India Art Fair</b> India Art Fair is the leading platform to
discover Modern and Contemporary art from South Asia, offering a unique access
point to the region’s thriving cultural scene.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Taking place annually in India’s
capital, New Delhi, the fair reflects the city’s fast-developing local arts
scene, while offering curated insights into the cultural landscapes of
neighbouring countries. The fair’s programme - which draws together galleries
and artists, private foundations and arts charities, artists’ collectives,
national institutions, cultural events and festivals - enables international
audiences to engage in innovative ways with the cultural history and
development of the region<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">The fair is committed to
supporting arts education and professional development opportunities,
recognising the crucial need to support the development of the local arts
scene, and provide dedicated exhibition space to emerging galleries and arts
organisations. The fair aims to run an extensive programme of events, including
education initiatives, artist commissions and pop-up programmes, aiming to
increase audiences for the arts within India. <o:p></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMBQRK8F8pFvugHpSbdMM-I2BDiZY2-bTJ5xmHrLLc-unKUu9zzJTsk8yOoVy6iq08lbnQMc91m0aNtkjk6CeYbs9KUReHEhGZAiVlMY737drul2G0igUWzg8PsALlIKBhlNEhAtRMzKJzasQoDudbZsrX7rHYc_bc2xBZhi5ztS_qpHDpKJGa09-dj3A/s2560/Visitor-at-neugerriemschneider-Booth-courtesy-of-India-Art-Fair-scaled.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1708" data-original-width="2560" height="433" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMBQRK8F8pFvugHpSbdMM-I2BDiZY2-bTJ5xmHrLLc-unKUu9zzJTsk8yOoVy6iq08lbnQMc91m0aNtkjk6CeYbs9KUReHEhGZAiVlMY737drul2G0igUWzg8PsALlIKBhlNEhAtRMzKJzasQoDudbZsrX7rHYc_bc2xBZhi5ztS_qpHDpKJGa09-dj3A/w647-h433/Visitor-at-neugerriemschneider-Booth-courtesy-of-India-Art-Fair-scaled.jpg" width="647" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">About BMW’s Cultural Commitment</b> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">For over 50 years now, the BMW
Group has initiated and been engaged in hundreds of cultural co-operations
worldwide. The focus of its long-term commitment is set on modern and
contemporary art, classical music, jazz and sound, as well as architecture and
design. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Along with commissioning iconic
BMW Art Cars and co-initiatives, such as BMW Tate Live, the BMW Art Journey and
the ‘Opera for All’ concerts in Berlin, Munich, Moscow and London, the company
also partners with leading museums and art fairs as well as orchestras and
opera houses around the world. The BMW Group guarantees absolute creative freedom,
as this is just as essential for ground-breaking artistic work as it is for
major innovations in a successful business. <o:p></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz45fwdTBPEeE-rL0YKRz2veC4jkBUiKdpmnGqLHm2PANE8jE-Y-w9w_piqWCw7nmCrS0V7qZhJch8yyBqC8d2zRONLL3XOXqAhLqQwjV5qjF1iSj19kLvYB1vT8RV_bz2IWFWvrLO-m725UbY1dEjMs9ifXPcoCBG-_dwZ0k0wOD2GBA4SNnzF0myQg0/s2560/Visitor-at-Nature-Morte-Booth-courtesy-of-India-Art-Fair-5-scaled.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1708" data-original-width="2560" height="362" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz45fwdTBPEeE-rL0YKRz2veC4jkBUiKdpmnGqLHm2PANE8jE-Y-w9w_piqWCw7nmCrS0V7qZhJch8yyBqC8d2zRONLL3XOXqAhLqQwjV5qjF1iSj19kLvYB1vT8RV_bz2IWFWvrLO-m725UbY1dEjMs9ifXPcoCBG-_dwZ0k0wOD2GBA4SNnzF0myQg0/w541-h362/Visitor-at-Nature-Morte-Booth-courtesy-of-India-Art-Fair-5-scaled.jpg" width="541" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF2IchSBMfcVZZ4RdlY6i73Pq5-KBXeZWUT3epCOlgRG_FKq28CTQXTDbsmh6c2Ic0ZGeZLKP1iF_PFrrEeKbsw-R3HNbPlxk1mkh_F-e7w6NuKyNvZzR9t0xXnSOEl55XCqSyZIba9t7gp2CnotZrnLS4mJ8TxykhT8ibB2F0EIpcb4zpzNMXfwVWNG0/s2560/Visitor-at-Nature-Morte-Booth-courtesy-of-India-Art-Fair-scaled.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1708" data-original-width="2560" height="365" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF2IchSBMfcVZZ4RdlY6i73Pq5-KBXeZWUT3epCOlgRG_FKq28CTQXTDbsmh6c2Ic0ZGeZLKP1iF_PFrrEeKbsw-R3HNbPlxk1mkh_F-e7w6NuKyNvZzR9t0xXnSOEl55XCqSyZIba9t7gp2CnotZrnLS4mJ8TxykhT8ibB2F0EIpcb4zpzNMXfwVWNG0/w545-h365/Visitor-at-Nature-Morte-Booth-courtesy-of-India-Art-Fair-scaled.jpg" width="545" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN9bTuCOKzJ-pCEuJ2xfGASEwN2-n_KBomLOjy89hQgjq2sJPYs6_jG5QQJDgusGEUbnM2F9ARyREsQc0nmZGgMxMYAOJrTj3RdyXXZtXjxAqWvPFm4vQeNCOTbphm9gL6YkThAxR3CYCpMJe1UY6o-INhXwj2Hw0tpOjDdkCMajBc8TH1v2jWjeQNrt4/s2560/Visitor-at-neugerriemschneider-Booth-courtesy-of-India-Art-Fair-scaled.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1708" data-original-width="2560" height="366" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN9bTuCOKzJ-pCEuJ2xfGASEwN2-n_KBomLOjy89hQgjq2sJPYs6_jG5QQJDgusGEUbnM2F9ARyREsQc0nmZGgMxMYAOJrTj3RdyXXZtXjxAqWvPFm4vQeNCOTbphm9gL6YkThAxR3CYCpMJe1UY6o-INhXwj2Hw0tpOjDdkCMajBc8TH1v2jWjeQNrt4/w547-h366/Visitor-at-neugerriemschneider-Booth-courtesy-of-India-Art-Fair-scaled.jpg" width="547" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWT0X3hGwUw71kPGQq1T10-XXph8KUzMO5xoC8IqDJweW9nmZUd6NH2puED4wuPVlXHdUEeraQBp4-hGcnZdzvadkQqyPbl7qFOIGIrMJsUEjVER1hXpaj851kze5y-JxetUt7ZsV1RsYmQ_10bg22nQ-JKdT4aKUXtBLhGNIS4Tb3dyuKGvRun4bO3ZE/s2560/Visitor-at-TIFA-EVOLVING-CULTURE-FOUNDATION-Booth-courtesy-of-India-Art-Fair-scaled.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1708" data-original-width="2560" height="365" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWT0X3hGwUw71kPGQq1T10-XXph8KUzMO5xoC8IqDJweW9nmZUd6NH2puED4wuPVlXHdUEeraQBp4-hGcnZdzvadkQqyPbl7qFOIGIrMJsUEjVER1hXpaj851kze5y-JxetUt7ZsV1RsYmQ_10bg22nQ-JKdT4aKUXtBLhGNIS4Tb3dyuKGvRun4bO3ZE/w544-h365/Visitor-at-TIFA-EVOLVING-CULTURE-FOUNDATION-Booth-courtesy-of-India-Art-Fair-scaled.jpg" width="544" /></a></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Since its inception, BMW India
has participated in leading cultural engagements across the country. In 2007,
two BMW Art Cars embellished by world renowned artists Andy Warhol and Roy
Lichtenstein were presented at the Jehangir Art Gallery in Mumbai. BMW Art Car
by Andy Warhol, Jeff Koons, Sandro Chia and Cesar Manrique have been
exclusively showcased at various editions of the India Art Fair.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Since 2012, BMW has partnered
with Kochi-Muziris Biennale, the contemporary art exhibition, which brings
international artists to India and creates a global platform for Indian
artists. In 2012-13, the innovative BMW Guggenheim Lab came to India. Based at
Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum and conducted at six different venues in Mumbai, the
lab organised six weeks of free programmes with diverse audiences and
communities addressing the challenges and conditions of the urban city.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p>India Art Fair- 2024 / All artwork images are courtesy of the artist and representing gallery.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><!-- wp:paragraph -->
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p></p>Art Blogazinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05784762999278115873noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2709396143721111492.post-7195580083166104212024-02-05T03:52:00.000-08:002024-02-05T03:52:12.905-08:00India Art Fair 2024<p> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD9QoKgthaUDPYqaJ3UHGKwXNz9cmxNl04wYjT99bPSC8prLPaCj9DR7rp2eUUz_SkYf0MZQFhAVOuYaPZaOoSDvPH_HgF8SxTYEk2ftgbPNsxvjSdzfrjztfImiaqTMXy8urnjAZLTgMc1S3uqFM-Vx0GfROW9unA2ucHyKw-21rL83HojxCDOtIREKY/s1200/ezgif.com-animated-gif-maker%20(8).gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="801" data-original-width="1200" height="458" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD9QoKgthaUDPYqaJ3UHGKwXNz9cmxNl04wYjT99bPSC8prLPaCj9DR7rp2eUUz_SkYf0MZQFhAVOuYaPZaOoSDvPH_HgF8SxTYEk2ftgbPNsxvjSdzfrjztfImiaqTMXy8urnjAZLTgMc1S3uqFM-Vx0GfROW9unA2ucHyKw-21rL83HojxCDOtIREKY/w684-h458/ezgif.com-animated-gif-maker%20(8).gif" width="684" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://indiaartfair.in/">https://indiaartfair.in/</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></p>Art Blogazinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05784762999278115873noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2709396143721111492.post-1535791840784354522024-02-02T21:21:00.000-08:002024-02-02T21:28:59.806-08:00The 15th edition of India Art Fair celebrates Artistic Diversity, making the canvases quondam!<p style="text-align: justify;"><b>More than 100 exhibitors raised the curtains to a unique side of art proving art is not limited to just walls and canvases.</b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2WiQAUtxana-ZWC8LbMI2EtvdWg7zqdaPGaKd_93wW_sLyS7vULlVoZYRG_0CugC3pZJ7U5A6aC93Oy1lYZKpf9qIoh1xZyD8KIzHCJ6UfWZpa4Y6mI4fCBc_Yx90qEY5RvlpNg-PEJM7i0p6G4DeHi3U_LJ5j8zD05UjKDQK7xT5gxyxyb3P2xYTwi4/s1280/india%20art%20fair%202024%20delhi%20epaper%20artblogazine%20(3).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="744" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2WiQAUtxana-ZWC8LbMI2EtvdWg7zqdaPGaKd_93wW_sLyS7vULlVoZYRG_0CugC3pZJ7U5A6aC93Oy1lYZKpf9qIoh1xZyD8KIzHCJ6UfWZpa4Y6mI4fCBc_Yx90qEY5RvlpNg-PEJM7i0p6G4DeHi3U_LJ5j8zD05UjKDQK7xT5gxyxyb3P2xYTwi4/w558-h744/india%20art%20fair%202024%20delhi%20epaper%20artblogazine%20(3).jpeg" width="558" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p style="text-align: justify;">The India Art Fair 2024 brings together a melting pot of artistic expression, with a myriad of galleries, institutions, private foundations, arts charities, artists’ collectives, cultural centers and museums hailing from India and beyond showcasing a wide spectrum of artistic styles, mediums, and influences.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The event, happening in Capital City from 1st to 4th February, serves as a platform for artists, collectors, and art enthusiasts to engage with a diverse range of artworks, reflecting the rich tapestry of creativity that spans not only across India but reaches out to the broader global artistic community. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhes6yWvJ_Nlb6H3PpyyvJSVcedShfD1_naCPV0zUjbp36zXkGUa8ug7ro-bnw608SqvYAAqPaw5ZpziGHELBwWY_f40lsup0oXSrd-Y3gQXRpkUbPnRWByt_lfrHbConh9o8XjcR1NRlfR1THpY00dWscSDl554auZV7kDfcDHN3zRtw9VsRqznqKnBcE/s848/india%20art%20fair.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="848" data-original-width="480" height="589" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhes6yWvJ_Nlb6H3PpyyvJSVcedShfD1_naCPV0zUjbp36zXkGUa8ug7ro-bnw608SqvYAAqPaw5ZpziGHELBwWY_f40lsup0oXSrd-Y3gQXRpkUbPnRWByt_lfrHbConh9o8XjcR1NRlfR1THpY00dWscSDl554auZV7kDfcDHN3zRtw9VsRqznqKnBcE/w333-h589/india%20art%20fair.gif" width="333" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;">From traditional to contemporary, textile to digital, experimental to conceptual, design to abstract the exhibition halls are filled with a dazzling array of artworks, each telling its own unique story. Visitors are having the opportunity to immerse themselves in a sea of creativity, exploring the depths of Indian art alongside international perspectives, fostering a rich exchange of ideas and inspiration.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">In addition to the impressive array of galleries and museums, the 2024 edition of the India Art Fair also welcomes the participation of cultural hubs and designers. Seven design studios are being showcased in the new design section. This inclusion not only augmented the scope of the fair but also added an exciting dimension by incorporating elements of design, fashion, and cultural heritage into the artistic tapestry on display. ‘The idea is to place art and design in the same space and blur the boundaries between the fields.’ says the IAF director, Jaya Asokan.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc4TPBqGJiZDrPYMlbwLOboS7F7HcrSgIOvuO8lwp3NxRxPEk0xVwTh4SXdjzxpkrtGtH31xy6C0MpuxogViR6fT0dTV0J4VPvRF-35FDEsGoY-vYhRNLmHfyWjoi7Px89BV8s69nppB17V5XaIBLkZy0X2_I0cw1FdrH_YD7NLygHxp2dd7f0HpR9M6A/s1200/ezgif.com-animated-gif-maker%20(7).gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1200" height="477" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc4TPBqGJiZDrPYMlbwLOboS7F7HcrSgIOvuO8lwp3NxRxPEk0xVwTh4SXdjzxpkrtGtH31xy6C0MpuxogViR6fT0dTV0J4VPvRF-35FDEsGoY-vYhRNLmHfyWjoi7Px89BV8s69nppB17V5XaIBLkZy0X2_I0cw1FdrH_YD7NLygHxp2dd7f0HpR9M6A/w637-h477/ezgif.com-animated-gif-maker%20(7).gif" width="637" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;">Against the backdrop of vibrant creativity, this annual show is serving as a place for dialogue and exchange, fostering connections between artists, collectors, and audiences. Through a series of talks, workshops, special programmers and interactive installations, the fair provides a space for meaningful engagement and exploration, bridging the gap between art and its audience.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">The huge installations, use of unique materiality, international art, infusion of digital elements, blend of art and luxury, experimental projects and performances all make the 15th edition of India Art Fair worth visiting. It is a testament to the boundless creativity that emanates from both India and the global artistic community, reaffirming the pivotal role of art as a medium for cultural exchange, expression, and understanding.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi87hL7jVzBUpjnOwJrBcHhr8ni_4en-Wnkb3wKS7uJZsO0KZqX46abRwkSYIp_BNDVIgB-aaGdSl0lc06hL3MJV7gifrPH7huiNF1F2Ce2ubPkAiMxzp6MWGuk31wUDRxHtSPh8ZPJl3kb7FTnC84uczfwrG-9FH9_c7hOr9IM2XbI9LpmeqCyfjVIXoQ/s408/sanchita%20sharma%20(2).jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="408" data-original-width="324" height="175" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi87hL7jVzBUpjnOwJrBcHhr8ni_4en-Wnkb3wKS7uJZsO0KZqX46abRwkSYIp_BNDVIgB-aaGdSl0lc06hL3MJV7gifrPH7huiNF1F2Ce2ubPkAiMxzp6MWGuk31wUDRxHtSPh8ZPJl3kb7FTnC84uczfwrG-9FH9_c7hOr9IM2XbI9LpmeqCyfjVIXoQ/w138-h175/sanchita%20sharma%20(2).jpeg" width="138" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: right;"><b>Sanchita Sharma</b>_ Writer / Editor 2024 / Art Blogazine India</p><p style="text-align: right;"><b><br /><br /></b></p><p style="text-align: right;"><br /></p>Art Blogazinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05784762999278115873noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2709396143721111492.post-65013102525492831642024-01-30T01:49:00.000-08:002024-01-30T04:44:50.570-08:00Book of Gold: Kanchana Chitra Ramayana of Banaras Publication Launch at JLF and Talk with Kamini Sawhney<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Baikal Light","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Book of
Gold: Kanchana Chitra Ramayana of Banaras Publication Launch at JLF </span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Baikal Light","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">and<b> Talk with Kamini Sawhney l Beyond Borders: ART INSTITUTIONS
AND INNOV-ART-ATIONS at India Art Fair Grounds. </b>We wanted to check
your interest on attending the same.</span><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Kanchana Chitra Ramayana of Banaras Publication Launch at JLF</span></b><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
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excited to announce that </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Baikal Light","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">MAP will be launching the Book
of Gold: The Kanchana Chitra Ramayana of Banaras publication at JLF. The
programme is scheduled on February 3rd, 2024, at 5 pm at the Mughal Tent at
Hotel Clark Amer. <b>Kamini Sawhney, Director, </b>Museum of Art and
Photography<b> </b>will be inaugurating the book at JLF. She will also be
conversing with one of the authors of the publication, Prof. Philip
Lutgendorf. </span><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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presence can play a vital role in highlighting the launch of the book and the
highlights of the aspects of this rich manuscript. Request you to please let us
know if you would be interested in attending the same, and we will connect you
to our representatives at the event.</span><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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find below further details on Book of Gold: The Kanchana Chitra Ramayana of
Banaras.</span><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Gold: Kanchana Chitra Ramayana of Banaras Publication Launch at JLF</span></b><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Mughal Tent, Hotel Clark Amer</span></b><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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February 3rd, 2024</span></b><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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PM (IST)</span></b><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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of Gold: The Kanchana Chitra Ramayana of Banaras:</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Baikal Light","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">'Book of
Gold: The Kanchana Chitra Ramayana of Banaras' offers a scholarly exploration
with six essays by leading experts in art, architectural history, literature,
and religion. Uniting 75 folios of the Chitra Ramayana, a previously
undiscovered manuscript created for Banaras' royal court between 1796 and 1814,
these folios are showcased at MAP in an exhibition curated by Prof. Kavita
Singh and Dr. Parul Singh.</span><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Baikal Light","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Prof.
Kavita Singh's introductory essay addresses the historical, religious,
literary, and artistic contexts. Prof. Philip Lutgendorf explores the societal
impact on Tulsidas' Ramcharitmanas, and Dr. Parul Singh highlights prior
attempts to illustrate Rama-kathas. Dr. Heeryoon Shin delves into Banaras'
architectural projects, and Prof. Anjan Chakraverty traces the art patronage
history. Prof. Richard Schechner contrasts the exclusive Chitra Ramayana with
the populist Ramlila. Concluding with a Note on Style and image reproductions,
the book sheds light on 19th-century North Indian miniature painting
traditions. Providing a unique interdisciplinary perspective, this invaluable
resource bridges disciplines and eras and invites scholars, and enthusiasts to
explore the intricacies of 19th-century North Indian courtly painting and
manuscript paintings.</span><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Baikal Light","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Editor
Bios</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Baikal Light","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">:</span><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Baikal Light","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Kavita
Singh</span></b><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Baikal Light","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Kavita
Singh (1964-2023), an eminent Indian art historian, was associated with the
School of Arts and Aesthetics (SAA) at Jawaharlal Nehru University, where she
served as Dean and also taught courses on the history of Indian painting and
the history and politics of museums in South Asia, from 2001.</span><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Baikal Light","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Baikal Light","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Parul
Singh</span></b><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Baikal Light","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Parul
Singh is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the interdisciplinary program 4A Laboratory:
Art Histories, Archaeologies, Anthropologies, Aesthetics of the
Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut, supported by the
Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin. She specialises in pre-modern
visual and material culture with a focus on South Asian art.</span><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Baikal Light", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Museum of Art & Photography (MAP</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Baikal Light", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">), Bengaluru Situated in the heart of Bengaluru, the Museum of Art & Photography (MAP) opened its doors on February 18th, 2023, with a dedicated mission to democratise art. Spanning five floors, MAP’s collection of over 60,000 artworks, primarily from South Asia, ranges from the 10th century to the present. Launched in 2020, MAP's digital museum employs innovative methods to connect with audiences, offering curated online exhibitions, artist talks, workshops, and high-quality content such as blogs, essays, and interviews. This approach aims to actively engage and connect with new audiences, particularly those unfamiliar with the arts</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Baikal Light", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p></p>Art Blogazinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05784762999278115873noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2709396143721111492.post-80069233466116219652024-01-27T19:42:00.000-08:002024-01-27T20:31:26.309-08:00 Subodh Gupta: “A small village, around the corner, up in the mountain”<p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Aparajita Jain and Peter Nagy
(co-directors of Nature Morte) are proud to announce the opening of a permanent
space for the gallery in Mumbai, occupying the entire third floor of Block A of
the historic Dhanraj Mahal at Apollo Bandar. Joining the family of contemporary
art galleries in the Colaba neighborhood, our windows look directly upon the
Bombay Yacht Club and the new tower of the Taj Mahal Hotel.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9scI0tPeZL_BrHZ6AM7HryP6g5gMFRju4XRvYW6lTlmq6NZeCuf8N_X8buHGh44HrPfe8qwz52aBdn-muL-NhcyNobRrzdj1xK6XBIbAVQvbwkS0q2f1yKiZZ1n8ZBt9ECKJTEMmohiqMf86u6rDE7BCPPKmGCjulsRYjWuMuOoF63tDQQD9Z6a-m1UE/s440/Subodh_Gupta,_2020%20(2).jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="440" data-original-width="330" height="440" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9scI0tPeZL_BrHZ6AM7HryP6g5gMFRju4XRvYW6lTlmq6NZeCuf8N_X8buHGh44HrPfe8qwz52aBdn-muL-NhcyNobRrzdj1xK6XBIbAVQvbwkS0q2f1yKiZZ1n8ZBt9ECKJTEMmohiqMf86u6rDE7BCPPKmGCjulsRYjWuMuOoF63tDQQD9Z6a-m1UE/w330-h440/Subodh_Gupta,_2020%20(2).jpg" width="330" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Artist: Subodh Gupta</b><br />(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subodh_Gupta)</td></tr></tbody></table>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">The gallery will open with a solo
show of new works by the celebrated artist Subodh Gupta, who was born in Bihar
in 1964 and is based in the New Delhi suburb of Gurgaon. This is the seventh
solo show that Nature Morte is hosting with Gupta in India, and opening our
Mumbai space with him is particularly appropriate as we opened our Neeti Bagh
space in New Delhi (home to the gallery from 2003 to 2020) with his solo show.
Entitled “A small village, around the corner, up in a mountain,” Gupta’s
exhibition will include sculptures, paintings, and wall reliefs, all created in
the past few years. The works in the exhibition continue with Gupta’s
provocative investigations into the associations of common objects, realized as
complex free-standing sculptures, wall reliefs, and paintings. Vessels used for
cooking that are ubiquitous throughout India remain the artist’s basic
vocabulary but a wide range of other objects now join in the mix, most of which
continue to allude to the social stratifications of Indian society. Gupta’s use
and depictions of these humble objects act as metaphors for the passage of time,
our human condition, the bonds of family and community. His titles for many of
these works speak of the discoveries and mysteries associated with travel and
the theatre of life.<o:p></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOgmJ07hKb1wPrV2zFU1t3MFsEZ-UJf9kIDgK1UQQm36foGA1UxR13lCFYPY2pm4vyf-jtj947KDIImFN0RP4ZLcDrUykXbsDx8F9SgkGhbryMRq9R2WNh2ulHf3VPlvQyAEGRaLtHYT8fBu32bZioRKX2Ckm7_Vs4gacxaY-V6k8vp4NIl-r8XTZ382M/s1500/subodh%20gupta_solo%20show%20mumbai%20(2).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1500" height="442" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOgmJ07hKb1wPrV2zFU1t3MFsEZ-UJf9kIDgK1UQQm36foGA1UxR13lCFYPY2pm4vyf-jtj947KDIImFN0RP4ZLcDrUykXbsDx8F9SgkGhbryMRq9R2WNh2ulHf3VPlvQyAEGRaLtHYT8fBu32bZioRKX2Ckm7_Vs4gacxaY-V6k8vp4NIl-r8XTZ382M/w665-h442/subodh%20gupta_solo%20show%20mumbai%20(2).jpg" width="665" /></a></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Subodh Gupta’s works have been
exhibited in solo exhibitions in prestigious museums and venues such as Monnaie
de Paris (2018); Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry, UK (2017); Art Basel,
Switzerland (2017), The Smithsonian Museum of Asian Art, Washington DC (2017);
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia (2016); Museum fur Moderne Kunst,
Frankfurt, Germany (2014); Kunstmuseum Thun, Switzerland (2013); Kiran Nadar
Museum, New Delhi (2012); and the Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere, Finland
(2011). His mid-career survey, curated by Germano Celant, was held at the National
Gallery of Modern Art in New Delhi in 2012, where his monumental sculpture
“People Tree” is permanently installed on the front lawns, facing the India
Gate. Solo shows of his works have been hosted by the gallery Hauser &
Wirth in London, New York, and Somerset UK and by the Galeria Continua in San
Gimignano, Italy and Paris, France.<o:p></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2EqmeHqdW6Z_0SQae0auD_tC6gc5SnT_owQbk3QEePly9suPfj9sFPdtispvAzgvPMFgrslHRCxPEMXQPq5wUVOclajZNCo82J1J4LokCtv9hqDPt-OjKAUwiuxMeU9gLteVnaWMLE28rIl7MsbHXaGmCMwDWu6sUljtpnKjkhrqB2dyFzaVStWLHuTM/s1500/subodh%20gupta_solo%20show%20mumbai%20(1).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1500" height="513" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2EqmeHqdW6Z_0SQae0auD_tC6gc5SnT_owQbk3QEePly9suPfj9sFPdtispvAzgvPMFgrslHRCxPEMXQPq5wUVOclajZNCo82J1J4LokCtv9hqDPt-OjKAUwiuxMeU9gLteVnaWMLE28rIl7MsbHXaGmCMwDWu6sUljtpnKjkhrqB2dyFzaVStWLHuTM/w771-h513/subodh%20gupta_solo%20show%20mumbai%20(1).jpg" width="771" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b>NATURE MORTE</b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Founded in New York's East
Village in 1982 and closed in 1988, Peter Nagy revived Nature Morte in New
Delhi in 1997 as a commercial gallery and a curatorial experiment. In the early
years, Nature Morte became<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">synonymous in India with
challenging and experimental forms of art; championing conceptual, lens-based,
and installation genres and representing a generation of Indian artists who
went on to international exposure. Today, Nature Morte is the leader in its
field in India with increasing visibility around the world, representing many
of the most accomplished contemporary artists working in India today, fostering
the most promising new talents, and introducing the works of international
artists to the country.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">The gallery now has two
exhibition spaces in New Delhi: the main gallery is located at the Dhan Mill
complex in the Chhatarpur area, in a 400-square-meter space on the ground floor
at the center of the complex. In addition, a secondary gallery is in the
neighborhood of Vasant Vihar, measuring 70-square-meters and used for smaller shows.
The Vasant Vihar space also houses the gallery’s offices, private viewing
rooms, and expanded storage. Mumbai is not the first space for Nature Morte
outside of New Delhi: previously the gallery has maintained multiple branches
in various locations: Berlin (2008-2014), Kolkatta (with BosePacia from
2006-2009), and at the Oberoi Gurgaon hotel (2011-2014).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">The artists represented by the
gallery are active throughout the world and their works have been exhibited in
and acquired by many of the most prestigious museums: in New York (Museum of
Modern Art, P.S. One, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Guggenheim); London (Tate
Modern, Hayward Gallery, Whitechapel Gallery, Courtauld Institute, The
Serpentine Gallery); Paris (Centre Pompidou, La Monnaie, Musee Guimet, Palais
de Tokyo); Tokyo (Mori Art Museum); Chicago (The Art Institute, Museum of
Contemporary Art); Hong Kong (M+); Venice (La Biennale, Fondazione Prada, Punta
della Dogana, Palazzo Grassi); Australia (National Gallery inCanberra, Gallery
of Modern Art in Brisbane, Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney), among many
others. Nature Morte was the first gallery from India to be included in the
most important international art fairs (starting with The Armory Show in New
York in 2005) and has participated in Art Basel, Fiac Paris, Art Basel Miami Beach,
Paris Photo, Art Dubai, Tokyo Art Fair, Art Basel Hong Kong, Abu Dhabi Art
Fair, and Frieze London and New York, among others. Nature Morte has also
organized projects and exhibitions with international artists coming to India
and combining their works with those of Indian artists to foster cross-cultural
communications. In addition to its own programming, Nature Morte has
collaborated with institutions in India such as the British Council, the
Alliance Francais, the Sanskriti Foundation, the India International Centre,
the India Habitat Centre, Max Mueller Bhavan, the Italian Culture Institute,
Khoj International Artists Association, the Kochi/Muziris Biennial, Pro
Helvetia, the National Gallery of Modern Art in both New Delhi and Mumbai, the
Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum and the CSMVS Museum (formerly the Prince of Wales
Museum) in Mumbai, and the Museum of Art &Photography (MAP) in Bangalore.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The Owners<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">C</b> (born 1959, Bridgeport, CT, USA) was co-founder (along
with Alan Belcher) of Gallery Nature Morte in New York's East Village in 1982,
where it continued until 1988. Nature Morte represented artists such as Steven
Parrino, Gretchen Bender, Not Vital, Ken Lum, Julia Wachtel, and Jennifer
Bolande, in addition to mounting solo project shows of important artists such
as Vito Acconci, Louise Lawler, Sherrie Levine, Keith Sonnier, Ross Bleckner,
Richard Pettibone, Allan McCollum, and Laurie Simmons. The third gallery to
open in what was then New York’s frontier art neighborhood, Nature Morte
exhibited the work of many artists early in their careers including Robert
Gober, Haim Steinbach, James Welling, and Cady Noland.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">A graduate of Parsons School of
Design in New York (1981) with a BFA in Communication Design, Nagy's art was
represented in the 1980s by International With Monument in the East Village and
later with Jay Gorney Modern Art in Soho. Solo exhibitions of his art in the
latter half of the 1980s happened in Los Angeles (Margo Leavin Gallery),
Cologne (Jablonka Galerie), Milan (Studio Guenzani), London (Edward Totah
Gallery) and Paris (Galerie Georges-Phillipe and Natalie Vallois) and his works
have been included in important group exhibitions in museums such as the
Whitney Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Museum of Contemporary
Art in Los Angeles, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and Tate Modern in London.
Currently, he is represented by Magenta Plains in New York, who collaborated
with Jeffrey Deitch to mount a survey exhibition of his black-and-white works
made in New York from 1982 to 1992 at Deitch’s New York gallery space in 2020.
His art works are in the collections of the Whitney Museum, the Metropolitan
Museum, and the Brooklyn Museum in New York and the Menil Collection of
Houston, among other institutions. Based in New Delhi since 1992, Nagy’s writings
on contemporary art have been published in a wide variety of publications, from
international magazines to museum and gallery catalogs.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Aparajita Jain</b> (born 1980, Kolkata, India) is the co-director of
Nature Morte since 2013, when she bought a controlling interest in the gallery,
assimilating into its roster some of the artists represented by Seven Arts Limited,
the gallery she previously owned that focussed on discovering young talent,
among whom were Asim Waqif and Martand Khosla.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Aparajita, along with her husband
Gaurav Jain, was a founding/council member of Harvard University's South Asia
Arts Council, representing Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan, established to
connect South Asia's curators, museum administrators, artists, and art educators
with Harvard faculty. She was listed as one of 50 iconic Indian gallerists by
Platform magazine and played an active role in the Vogue Women's Empowerment
Campaign. She was listed as one among eight influential women in the Indian art
world by ARTSY, one of 30 influential women in the art world by ELLE magazine,
and amongst the top 100 creative by Harper’s Bazaar. She was recently awarded
Entrepreneur of the Year by FICCI FLO for her contribution to art and is
currently on the advisory board of Indian Council for Cultural Relations. She
has anchored, along with Peter Nagy, a television series called Art Insider on
NDTV.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">In 2010, Aparajita Jain founded
The Saat Saath Arts Foundation, envisioning it as a not-for-profit initiative
meant to foster a platform for creative dialogue between Indian artists and the
international art world. The foundation has received international acclaim for
its Curatorial Research Grant program, conceived along with Diana Campbell,
artistic director of the Dhaka Art Summit, which endows international curators
with resources to extend their research on the Indian art scene, thus nurturing
a vital exchange of knowledge between India and the rest of the world. The
first recipients of the grant, Laura Raicovich (Director of Global Initiatives,
Creative Time, NY), Mari Spirito (Founding Director of Protocinema,
Istanbul/New York), Lauren Cornell (Curator, 2015 Triennial, Digital Projects
and Museum as Hub), and Dr. Helen Pheby (Senior Curator, Yorkshire Sculpture
Park,UK) visited India in 2013 and 2014. The foundation helped customise their
itineraries to suit their research interests,while providing them with
resources to ensure an efficient and productive trip. In 2015, Catherine David
(Deputy Director, Centre Pompidou, Paris) and Dieter Roelstraete (at the time
on the team of dOCUMENTA14) were awarded the grant to nurture their ongoing
research on contemporary Indian artists. The foundation also supports exhibitions
by Indian artists, most recently responsible for the mounting of Jitish
Kallat's poetic piece, Covering<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Letter, at the CSMVS (formerly
the Prince of Wales Museum) in Mumbai and the exhibition "Matter,"
featuring the work of Bharti Kher at Vancouver Art Gallery. SSA launched
India’s first public Sculpture Park for contemporary art in collaboration with
the Government of Rajasthan in 2017, where it continues inside the Nahargarh
Fort of Jaipur today.<o:p></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisnCUgVoPsFqo8zh8YUp1QbFAC1OW_W8kp5ewMhV4d8MJmbEf1f7jN9XTLD1wNjxMGP3vElIjzfij3kdylQxM14gRImYlniYXImmB7aAm1ez9BY4hlz5euL5tbz0yON-nA6RqTjpGdRcBIc-e_5FU5NgqKTvaVF7eFwhgbCuc0nOQfMelJp4ERP1FkL14/s865/Subodh_Gupta,_2024.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="865" data-original-width="728" height="317" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisnCUgVoPsFqo8zh8YUp1QbFAC1OW_W8kp5ewMhV4d8MJmbEf1f7jN9XTLD1wNjxMGP3vElIjzfij3kdylQxM14gRImYlniYXImmB7aAm1ez9BY4hlz5euL5tbz0yON-nA6RqTjpGdRcBIc-e_5FU5NgqKTvaVF7eFwhgbCuc0nOQfMelJp4ERP1FkL14/w266-h317/Subodh_Gupta,_2024.jpg" width="266" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMPOPMDhGMF0QO0DNFwJgePAdp5C4ujlJcldzlwuD3mCaIlFwexE7i2pfQOu-3LxWP_5402NbRDIQgNqNYb2rQK3X4tXBiXMj3Fc90L7XjIV8fCHiv6__vtkVEbc_83UWVMC5J2e75G64xSqmmusdl52NiM08v6HZiul3uIOWCuJg_7ADpRrATfyc76LQ/s600/Subodh_Gupta,_2024_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="443" height="316" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMPOPMDhGMF0QO0DNFwJgePAdp5C4ujlJcldzlwuD3mCaIlFwexE7i2pfQOu-3LxWP_5402NbRDIQgNqNYb2rQK3X4tXBiXMj3Fc90L7XjIV8fCHiv6__vtkVEbc_83UWVMC5J2e75G64xSqmmusdl52NiM08v6HZiul3uIOWCuJg_7ADpRrATfyc76LQ/w233-h316/Subodh_Gupta,_2024_1.jpg" width="233" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">January 19th to March 9th, 2024<o:p></o:p></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p>Gallery Hours: Monday through Saturday, 11am to 7pm. Closed on Sundays.</p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">---------------</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b>Mumbai<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Dhanraj Mahal, Block A, Third Floor Apollo Bandar, Colaba, Mumbai 400 001<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Monday through Saturday: 11am to 7pm<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><a href=" www.naturemorte.com">Website: www.naturemorte.com</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b>Instagram: @naturemorte_delhi<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b>Facebook: Nature Morte<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b>X: @Nature Morte</b></p>Art Blogazinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05784762999278115873noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2709396143721111492.post-49402721178258466712024-01-20T21:09:00.000-08:002024-01-20T21:22:10.409-08:00“MEDITATION” Art An Instrument Solo Show of Paintings By Renowned artist Sanjay Sable in Jehangir<p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Meditation – Art An Instrument</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Recent work of a versatile renowned contemporary artist, Sanjay Sable in Acrylic colours on canvas will be showcased in a solo art exhibition in Jehangir Art Gallery, AC – 2, M.G. Road, Kala Ghoda, Mumbai 400 001 from 23 to 29 January 2024. It will be open for free public viewing there daily between 11 am to 7 pm. This exhibition will reveal the outcome of the painstaking efforts taken by the artist to incorporate subtle nuances of Meditation – as an instrument in his creative endeavours in order to enlighten the viewers with newer perspectives of the thematic peculiarities in the relevant arenas of visual fine arts. This will be his 5th solo art exhibition in Jehangir Art Gallery.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaRAwNEgDg206Qdx6iFtfR0JXT-DrcDIPper5cYIMZM4woTqli3w3XMr7foEnWkM6-zsZhIQy-gqrEGftM-mzEh9rMpEMC7xXJN4PJ9cL3YzOwUJCPit18X2YQRjwzJlgT9P8TJf0DDM89btJbLS6SvKKtJ6znA-k8JC3VIglLBZimTqYgi24FmwZBc7s/s760/Sanjay%20Sable.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="760" data-original-width="760" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaRAwNEgDg206Qdx6iFtfR0JXT-DrcDIPper5cYIMZM4woTqli3w3XMr7foEnWkM6-zsZhIQy-gqrEGftM-mzEh9rMpEMC7xXJN4PJ9cL3YzOwUJCPit18X2YQRjwzJlgT9P8TJf0DDM89btJbLS6SvKKtJ6znA-k8JC3VIglLBZimTqYgi24FmwZBc7s/s320/Sanjay%20Sable.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Artist: Sanjay Sable</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: justify;">This show will be inaugurated on 23rd January 2024 at 4pm by Chief Guest Mr. Chandrashekhar Sudhakar Deshmukh Sectional Engineer, High Court Section, P.W.D. Mumbai. Guest of Honour Mr. Vishwanath Sabale Dean of Sir J.J. School of Art, Mumbai, Mrs. Hina Bhatt Founder/Director: Hina Bhatt Art Ventires / Hina Bhatt Art Foundation, Nitin Jadia Art Collector.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Sanjay Sable hails from Osmanabad (now called Dharashiva). He had his art education at Chitrakala Mahavidyalaya Latur, Abhinava Kala Mahavidyalay. Pune and Sir J.J. School of Arts, Mumbai. He has been a faculty member at Chitrakala Mahavidyalay, Nashik since 2003. He has showcased his earlier thematic works in various art galleries at Mumbai, Pune, New Delhi, Alibaug, Chandigarh, Nashik, Kolkata, Aurangabad etc., and received overwhelming public response and appreciations for his work. He is a proud recipient of several prizes, awards and appreciations from prestigious art promotional institutions at Pune, Mumbai, Nagpur, Dhule, Amritsar, Ratnagiri etc. His works are in proud collection of many renowned art collectors in India and abroad. An active participant in several art camps, workshops organised by reputed art promotional institutions all over the country, he has also showcased his thematic work in some International art exhibitions at Dubai, Bangladesh, Washington – USA etc., and earned warm public appreciations from the art fraternity for his thematic work. He has presented 54 works in this exhibition for public viewing and the largest sizes of artworks in this show are of 15ft x 4.5 ft and 12ft x 6ft.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGQo16OOeVbfJM5idd2q8pdJbUTFo4acEvH0vRvP114Tfm4S3Pq8KQpbRFA5oKoQJAOcTywR2Jj3SpEwBHx8mqHxF52KMpRubvHwIRjj_NBGaIT7mTRKptAtHQj6PhmTKZ-w58Unp7kq9Jgl1i3xZ0JRNvJpBEEOk8XpnPv-hSvevVbsW3rcRsZGz3fJE/s1600/10.%20Acrylic%20on%20canvas.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1592" height="524" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGQo16OOeVbfJM5idd2q8pdJbUTFo4acEvH0vRvP114Tfm4S3Pq8KQpbRFA5oKoQJAOcTywR2Jj3SpEwBHx8mqHxF52KMpRubvHwIRjj_NBGaIT7mTRKptAtHQj6PhmTKZ-w58Unp7kq9Jgl1i3xZ0JRNvJpBEEOk8XpnPv-hSvevVbsW3rcRsZGz3fJE/w521-h524/10.%20Acrylic%20on%20canvas.jpg" width="521" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> Acrylic on canvas</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: justify;">The present series in Acrylic colours on canvas illustrate s his transformative thematic perceptions on Meditation – Art An Instrument in the unique expressive style and techniques. He has assimilated various transformations in his style and techniques during the experimentations at different stages and ultimately incorporated their transformed versions in his work in order to render perfection in visual perspectives and various forms of ingredients to accommodate the desired visual effects in them. As a result, his works in these norms and perspectives do represent his newer aesthetic prerogative and conceptualization along with the technical excellence achieved in artistically and aesthetically adorning the works with desired visual parameters in the apt perspectives of fine art. His paintings reveal an outcome of the total human involvement in his work with free and relaxed mind that is totally unbiased and unprejudised. The fruit of meditation of an artist in achieving unbiased results and outcomes from his endeavors bear true testimony to his sincerity, total dedication to work and an inherent urge to adorn the outcomes with the desired perspectives of divine effects of sublimity, rhythm and ecstasy in the apt arenas of visual fine arts. With these instruments of meditation along with an experience of about 2 decades in rendering his yeomen services propagation of visual fine arts, Sanjay Sable has created and presented this unique series of artwork that truly illustrates his complete command over the medium and techniques used as well as his positive and optimistic as well as rational approach to incorporate numerous supportive ingredients on a divine and spiritual plane in the work so as to enhance its visual glory and picturesqueness in the desired perspectives. </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQgkwTLik-LMBHjdG1Ao8laCclxY1Kal1vBY1alm1ii7Ac3GmC6mNjnbb8NTNul5q74kNZ-yf6QDqBvd5aBW7scxgwchqYxF3TYpUJ55R1TYvylPeHpo5vx1BcyF8TEn5nBHUDcNsGS8phgtC_FXpjvpqKKw1lgUq71PwPwXLCedQt35vYYNySMoiYBZE/s1349/01.%20Acrylic%20on%20canvas.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1349" data-original-width="1335" height="539" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQgkwTLik-LMBHjdG1Ao8laCclxY1Kal1vBY1alm1ii7Ac3GmC6mNjnbb8NTNul5q74kNZ-yf6QDqBvd5aBW7scxgwchqYxF3TYpUJ55R1TYvylPeHpo5vx1BcyF8TEn5nBHUDcNsGS8phgtC_FXpjvpqKKw1lgUq71PwPwXLCedQt35vYYNySMoiYBZE/w534-h539/01.%20Acrylic%20on%20canvas.jpg" width="534" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Acrylic on canvas</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: justify;">All works in this series in abstract forms reveal his sound and firm mindset and an eagerness to enlighten all with the newer perspectives of his transformative forms of art work which have the peculiar effect of divine sublimity, eternity and rhythmic ecstasy in them at strategic arenas. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b> Press Release</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">From: 23rd to 29th January 2024, “MEDITATION” Art An Instrument</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Solo Show of Paintings, By Renowned artist Sanjay Sable</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>VENUE:</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Jehangir Art Gallery161-B, M.G. Road, Kala Ghoda, Mumbai 400 001 Timing: 11am to 7pm</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p>Art Blogazinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05784762999278115873noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2709396143721111492.post-56825785628866283002024-01-17T00:54:00.000-08:002024-01-17T00:55:35.804-08:00Layered Meanings - Ten leading Contemporary Artists Gallery Beyond Curated by Vibhuraj Kapoor<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc9rsS0DKHHQOyMaiNOyhEUDqulVrikQ0P9Y65riaqFBGII0LBoCC5SHAu5UJ0UoJBqnDkM-aBY3LFJRz6f66rWSdxs0_FEq8OpIxe5JvAmJYMiUbAgLp4KqTZTuQTcD32TiLZWXXbc_xz9XLOP7oXVOLoUExOSenLlC2-BDHodFfE7VIIYW9wHnGcJmM/s3010/artblogazine_newspaper.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3010" data-original-width="2336" height="1012" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc9rsS0DKHHQOyMaiNOyhEUDqulVrikQ0P9Y65riaqFBGII0LBoCC5SHAu5UJ0UoJBqnDkM-aBY3LFJRz6f66rWSdxs0_FEq8OpIxe5JvAmJYMiUbAgLp4KqTZTuQTcD32TiLZWXXbc_xz9XLOP7oXVOLoUExOSenLlC2-BDHodFfE7VIIYW9wHnGcJmM/w784-h1012/artblogazine_newspaper.png" width="784" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; text-align: start;">Layered Meanings - Ten leading Contemporary Artists </b></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p>Art Blogazinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05784762999278115873noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2709396143721111492.post-39716864525863190452024-01-16T09:06:00.000-08:002024-01-16T09:06:48.001-08:00“The Legacy” An Exhibition of Photographs by veteran photojournalist Mukesh Parpiani <p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Legendary photojournalist Mukesh Parpiani’s need to chronicle the unusual began at a very young age when he first began to help his brother. His elder brother who was fascinated by photography, had a darkroom at home, and Mukesh used to wash his prints. Gradually, he began to work towards achieving this dream. He enrolled at the Pillai School of Photography (1969-1970), after which, he worked in wedding and travel photography. During this brief stint, he realised that his city has so many intermingled narratives to offer, whose ever-evolving nature is simply waiting to be chronicled.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIRuRLvx9s4SQx_fRhuRyzhZ8riS-RX4_NyhvVuYvHXTQmlf0enTDElEXnx4BCNhWDCetlglJ931wFFjuc3qiAs15mHu5HS3euSRXakcBPBiD78fj5PF6MJhGRwVrWrnXFtMAxXgFpSEsblz_Im3PTKKlQZCf3MEyy-aJW4JU9R21NJKNTTFd5VOAqGp0/s1280/Mukesh%20Parpiani.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="1269" height="289" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIRuRLvx9s4SQx_fRhuRyzhZ8riS-RX4_NyhvVuYvHXTQmlf0enTDElEXnx4BCNhWDCetlglJ931wFFjuc3qiAs15mHu5HS3euSRXakcBPBiD78fj5PF6MJhGRwVrWrnXFtMAxXgFpSEsblz_Im3PTKKlQZCf3MEyy-aJW4JU9R21NJKNTTFd5VOAqGp0/w287-h289/Mukesh%20Parpiani.jpg" width="287" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mukesh Parpiani</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN">In 1981, Russi Karanjia, the Editor of The Daily, a morning newspaper in Bombay, offered him a job as their photographer.At The Daily, Parpiani photographed many political leaders and celebrities. Due to this, he became a familiar name in the journalism fraternity. Viveck Goenka, the Chairman and Managing Director of The Indian Express, who had been following Parpiani’s work and career, saw potential in his vision. Eventually, he decided to recruit Parpiani as the photo editor of The Indian Express’ seventeen editions. During his time there, he covered historical events of significance nationally and internationally.Mid-Day, an afternoon tabloid, who noticed Parpiani’s work as a photojournalist and editor, decided to offer him a job as the photo editor. It was the beginning of many things - the turn of the century as well as the tectonic shift of photographic technologies. Tariq Ansari, the Managing Director of the newspaper, gave Parpiani the liberty to develop the department as he needed. Parpiani, upon recognising the dawn of DSLRs, requested Ansari to acquire them for the photo department. Under his tutelage, many young individuals became renowned documentary photographers and photojournalists.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9KSPpBRcBNCPTa4QpAmZzF4RMFINRSosi6AI4Ta8WOmShq1vdOPetJnDHISwN4501pV2h9epQ5mLLB6s3NKy4HTBKRrXq_pho871bgj7uMXttxXzuIQBYo-jrVEBmVzOWUEy3pPfBqLfBeVLhE7Z1kBtUxyAgtL98whtZGHulQja_0ythROtg9QUtM9E/s792/19.%20Tourists.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="502" data-original-width="792" height="416" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9KSPpBRcBNCPTa4QpAmZzF4RMFINRSosi6AI4Ta8WOmShq1vdOPetJnDHISwN4501pV2h9epQ5mLLB6s3NKy4HTBKRrXq_pho871bgj7uMXttxXzuIQBYo-jrVEBmVzOWUEy3pPfBqLfBeVLhE7Z1kBtUxyAgtL98whtZGHulQja_0ythROtg9QUtM9E/w656-h416/19.%20Tourists.jpg" width="656" /></a></div><br /><span lang="EN-IN"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN">Parpiani curated his first photo exhibition in March 1989 at Piramal Art Gallery of NCPA. His penchant for curating photography exhibition gave him the opportunity to continue even after his retirement at the age of 58.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN">In 2009, Khushroo Suntook, Chairman of the National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA), offered him to head the Piramal Art Gallery. Suntook had been familiar with Parpiani’s work and entrusted him with the running of the gallery. For 14 years, Parpiani has single-handedly nurtured and educated the next generation of photographers. He has organised over 250 talks, workshops, exhibitions, and seminars to disseminate photography.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr8iCRELwEkvrY-bdrFKgNp-jHgyHYS6W8dNCkR0qIBfzaOZz_8sZX_Tp4bXX0MX-NtGOQycmebmeZsHvy7j7aBZjb7Y8FfXwgj9CclpbeV7To1fnq6wU1q45tE0sbn1xl-2cK6xIf9ZgsXVUpOXweIseD3U2wAfixcAJTZtR5IFsLGqXziL7Khr4xqoM/s792/02.%20Horse%20Thieves.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="545" data-original-width="792" height="356" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr8iCRELwEkvrY-bdrFKgNp-jHgyHYS6W8dNCkR0qIBfzaOZz_8sZX_Tp4bXX0MX-NtGOQycmebmeZsHvy7j7aBZjb7Y8FfXwgj9CclpbeV7To1fnq6wU1q45tE0sbn1xl-2cK6xIf9ZgsXVUpOXweIseD3U2wAfixcAJTZtR5IFsLGqXziL7Khr4xqoM/w518-h356/02.%20Horse%20Thieves.jpg" width="518" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbd-aCnuwtghUyigHfrXyiLc2vCMjdJuM4W3AoTorirzsN_adAibpAb7bthSbUR_EOjFieykVZOsTU9P0DXefSqxPQs6H3sdSCil3dPacVnrNhJhTc1RU00gh5wrV46banwFoYuaR4GV1R7R0vLd_OcF819ZR0_aF3JDFLWRmlvOFiLDldzezMW9E-lkY/s1221/12.%20%20Horse%20Van.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="867" data-original-width="1221" height="371" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbd-aCnuwtghUyigHfrXyiLc2vCMjdJuM4W3AoTorirzsN_adAibpAb7bthSbUR_EOjFieykVZOsTU9P0DXefSqxPQs6H3sdSCil3dPacVnrNhJhTc1RU00gh5wrV46banwFoYuaR4GV1R7R0vLd_OcF819ZR0_aF3JDFLWRmlvOFiLDldzezMW9E-lkY/w522-h371/12.%20%20Horse%20Van.jpg" width="522" /></a></div><br /><span lang="EN-IN"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;">Parpiani has touched countless lives with his photographs while reforming countless more as a mentor. His strengths and humanity lie in his ability to mould the way we perceive Bombay, while his sensitivity and perceptiveness conquer the hearts of those fortunate individuals who have, knowingly or coincidentally, crossed paths with him</span> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN">Press Release</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN">From: 17th to 30th January 2024</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN">“The Legacy” An Exhibition of Photographs by veteran photojournalist <b>Mukesh Parpiani</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN"><b><u>VENUE:</u></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN">Jehangir Art Gallery,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN">Terrace Gallery,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN">Kala Ghoda, Mumbai 400 001.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN">Timing: 11am to 7pm</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN">Contact: +91 8108003311</span></p>Art Blogazinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05784762999278115873noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2709396143721111492.post-18130790133785940992024-01-05T20:16:00.000-08:002024-01-05T20:17:15.133-08:00Transient Landscape_Retrospective Show of veteran artist Late Yashwant Shirwadkar <p><span lang="EN-IN" style="color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px; text-align: justify;">When we first look at Yashwant Shriwadkar's painting, we are drawn to a vibrant, expansive canvas, that capture the fleeting light and ever-changing atmosphere in nature. The tactile strokes play with the viewer's senses, delivering an effect of spontaneity and effortlessness while masking carefully constructed compositions. Each time you look at his canvas, a new feature appears, as if purposefully hidden by the artist under the masterfully blended colors. Deep yellow flashed in the night, pastel blue fading into midday, and pink melting in the morning sky.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8-ThOAzngx9Ghe7rK3kh7kC4okDDA6nJGbQB0SFPsI2Piouv5Pqe9STQsr3KpW3WX3NlfCatlXxB3dhhwAeEdMrtqnchb2xyoAVKe8OsHJVE2jSMWlfGV6EU0nQFvGtnQbrgPAm8LotLLUgGQfHKtegqe-wOtqJmO61eGuLmwFK8kqg3YvYUIjKuXvIA/s1218/Yashwant%20Shirwadkar%204.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1218" data-original-width="1008" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8-ThOAzngx9Ghe7rK3kh7kC4okDDA6nJGbQB0SFPsI2Piouv5Pqe9STQsr3KpW3WX3NlfCatlXxB3dhhwAeEdMrtqnchb2xyoAVKe8OsHJVE2jSMWlfGV6EU0nQFvGtnQbrgPAm8LotLLUgGQfHKtegqe-wOtqJmO61eGuLmwFK8kqg3YvYUIjKuXvIA/s320/Yashwant%20Shirwadkar%204.JPG" width="265" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Veteran artist Late Yashwant Shirwadkar </td></tr></tbody></table><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;">Shirwadkar</span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"> perceived our world quite differently. For him, the seemingly mundane sights became compelling experiences,as a cascading waterfall or a majestic mountain peak. He simply painted the things he saw and felt, surrendering to the experiences and situations of the moment. He had no interest in depicting history, mythology, or the lives of great individuals. Instead, he attempted to capture how a landscape or an object appeared to him at a particular instant. Varanasi held a special fascination for him, leading to more than 18 visits to the mystical city. The gentle waters of the Ganges, the boat rides, the morning worship at the Ghats, as well as the majestic architecture has been aptly arrested by the artist. His artistic journey also encompassed landscapes from Kerala, Rajasthan, Kashmir, and Goa, along with large commission canvases like Hyde Park and the Gateway of India.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiszXzwt1Klr-bIVceZM2qidp5fmMkzXqR9H7nZH7fKoKM-VRt1r45MC-WjwUtD0WuquF3IaEn3-AKKCOnWjla3ZnQpi02HcfqCKpMkLkx6TzlGNIDhcM_xAm-GiDz0Hl2JktCfi6cWr4QmS4s2iu2dqbJ4rubrynwnl2hXCWJRqOeBg5JZGJBzmUdi_Hw/s1331/4%20-%20RAJASTHAN%20-%2036%20x%2060.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="827" data-original-width="1331" height="398" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiszXzwt1Klr-bIVceZM2qidp5fmMkzXqR9H7nZH7fKoKM-VRt1r45MC-WjwUtD0WuquF3IaEn3-AKKCOnWjla3ZnQpi02HcfqCKpMkLkx6TzlGNIDhcM_xAm-GiDz0Hl2JktCfi6cWr4QmS4s2iu2dqbJ4rubrynwnl2hXCWJRqOeBg5JZGJBzmUdi_Hw/w639-h398/4%20-%20RAJASTHAN%20-%2036%20x%2060.jpg" width="639" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Painting - RAJASTHAN - 36 x 60 in</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;">Shirwadkar's approach of using a palette knife and building up layers in oil-on-canvas aligns with the textural and vibrant qualities often associated with impressionistic art. It's a technique that can evoke a sense of movement and atmosphere in landscape paintings. Each layer was painted on top of the previous without waiting for the earlier layer to dry completely. Rather than worrying about the technical accuracy of the painting, he went with the flow of his mood and created a sense of movement in the work. Seeing him work on the colors with palette knife is a sight to behold, almost beyond words to describe. The colors seemed to merge one into another, slowly shifting: yellow to orange and then red, and at times blue slowly turned into green and vice versa.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;">Color and light played a profound role in Shriwadkar's painting process. Before painting on the canvas, he made several sketches on site, in the open, using sunlight as the only source of light. By using low chroma variations and rendering shadows in color, the artist skillfully captured the fleeting nuances of natural light.He also tried to emphasize the passage of time in his works. The paint was left unmixed, producing a contrast between strokes that didn’t blend completely on the canvas but appeared so to the eye. The deliberate choice to forgo intricate details in favor of bold paint strokes added to the overall impact of portraying the essence of the subject.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;">Shirwadkar's oil-on-canvases garnered widespread acclaim, resonating not just with Indian audiences but captivating hearts globally. He received invitations to prestigious international platforms, such as sponsored exhibitions and notable events like the 42nd Anniversary Leadership Summit in Washington in 2017, showcasing the artist's recognition on a global scale. His path in visual art, however faced several obstacles, stemming from initial resistance within his family against pursuing a career in the fine arts. Undeterred by opposition, his passion for painting prevailed, leading him to stand firm on his decision despite strong familial objections. Eventually, Shirwadkarwent on to study at the renowned Sir J. J. School of Arts in Mumbai, marking a crucial step in his artistic journey.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQSPYkycRSi5fAAa_uqg9gzKwjcovW2dM7GovWgLVEKv1frKRMCJh4g_3xGGpygC00O4pQuO4hG6slScWhNXwHwiwei5m_cROmgYyCQiKYrC_G6W2Pcked2qRT0IIlHMKa8Zq44Maoxd7IbHLzAb0ofKGOnOIEF8sKb0rcapBYVinnmv06iYqPQM7ea-M/s1429/3%20-%20SEASCAPE%20-%2036%20x%2060.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="867" data-original-width="1429" height="399" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQSPYkycRSi5fAAa_uqg9gzKwjcovW2dM7GovWgLVEKv1frKRMCJh4g_3xGGpygC00O4pQuO4hG6slScWhNXwHwiwei5m_cROmgYyCQiKYrC_G6W2Pcked2qRT0IIlHMKa8Zq44Maoxd7IbHLzAb0ofKGOnOIEF8sKb0rcapBYVinnmv06iYqPQM7ea-M/w658-h399/3%20-%20SEASCAPE%20-%2036%20x%2060.jpg" width="658" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Painting- SEASCAPE - 36 x 60 in</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;">Creating art was a form of Sadhana—a daily practice, for the artist. He painted regularly, shaping a distinctive style that involved the use of a palette knife and occasionally unconventional mediums such as a shaving blade. Even after achievingmastery over his technique, he continued to paint with awareness, discipline and intention of growth. Like a spiritual practitioner (sadhaka) heworked to achieve control over ego, connect deeper, and realign with his’s inner self.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;">Spanning over 45 years, Shirwadkar’s prolific artistic career was marked by an impressive legacy of around 100 solo exhibitions and over 260 group shows both in India and internationally. Through this extensive body of work, he not only established a prosperous art career but also earned a prominent reputation in the art world before his passing in 2020.The enduring allure of his works, continue to generate curiosity and awe in the younger generations of artists as well as viewers.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;">It is interesting to note that in his inaugural solo exhibition in 1977, Shirwadkar showcased watercolorseascapes. Employing a technique of blending watercolors to achieve a bleed and bloom effect, he crafted misty seascapes with soft, faded edges. Carefully playing with light contrast, he diluted and highlighted specific areas while leaving others dry, inviting light into the artwork. This technique skillfully evoked a vaporous atmosphere, adding a unique dimension to his early watercolors.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;">Shirwadkar's approach to painting landscapes went beyond mere depictions of sites or anonymous figures. His focus delved into capturing the enveloping warmth and color of sunlight, not merely the physical surroundings. His art aimed to encapsulate the transformative impact of sunlight on the specific moments, highlighting the soul of the scene and its evolution through time and atmospheric changes.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvKs7lw9QUoE1DtXXkbdM8fVpYU5fl9f49fR5FGHjkILMiMG_3t059aq-Hsp7MuVNhQyZ1PFtB9_VPTMBOvzQpWqK37icBqhmWzInm8Tc6UgGXS9QwVwMOACUZyVDcv0NWaXwyWFTpOI4XTml5BVd08szJHVPMcHESjzS3SjvBfPHi6u9dhK8A6LmDctg/s1188/Shraddha%20Purnaye.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1188" data-original-width="1119" height="152" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvKs7lw9QUoE1DtXXkbdM8fVpYU5fl9f49fR5FGHjkILMiMG_3t059aq-Hsp7MuVNhQyZ1PFtB9_VPTMBOvzQpWqK37icBqhmWzInm8Tc6UgGXS9QwVwMOACUZyVDcv0NWaXwyWFTpOI4XTml5BVd08szJHVPMcHESjzS3SjvBfPHi6u9dhK8A6LmDctg/w143-h152/Shraddha%20Purnaye.jpg" width="143" /></a></div><br /><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 22.8267px;">Transient Landscape</span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;">-<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;">By Shraddha Purnaye – Curator and Writer</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: Verdana, "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">From: 9<sup>th</sup> to 15<sup>th</sup> January 2024</span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 14pt;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: Verdana, "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Retrospective Show of veteran artist Late<b> Yashwant Shirwadkar</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"><br /></span></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div></div></div></div></div></div><p><b style="color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"><u><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: Verdana, "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">VENUE:</span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 14pt;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: Verdana, "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Jehangir Art Gallery</span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 14pt;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: Verdana, "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Auditorium Hall</span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 14pt;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: Verdana, "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">161-B, M.G. Road,</span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 14pt;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: Verdana, "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Kala Ghoda, Mumbai 400 001</span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 14pt;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: Verdana, "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Timing: 11am to 7pm</span></p>Art Blogazinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05784762999278115873noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2709396143721111492.post-17894559520045061512024-01-03T21:16:00.000-08:002024-01-03T21:48:24.323-08:00MGW 2024 | Areez Katki: As this melts on your knee at TARQ<p style="text-align: justify;"><b>About the Exhibition</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">The team at TARQ takes immense pleasure to introduce Areez Katki’s solo show titled As this chin melts on your knee. The exhibition presents a body of work created between 2022 and 2023, across the mediums of textile, paper and sculpture, delving deeper into Katki’s research and unfolding narratives. Exploring the tactile and sensuous nature of textiles has been a recurring focus in Katki’s practice over the past decade. As he gathers and repurposes old, found, and sometimes remnants of newer textiles, one can observe how each piece of cloth carries associations with material memory. These connections can be familial and deeply personal or, at times, reveal more political and historical threads.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZusPMNS1VTQ2gXv-QTai8PNBJk3nFQf9xKixZxQClcYiETGrt33ZvDTqUo5enXYyWW4ND7PaEKAUl_bkfhERI_Rca8kA1jUa7YpJnNjnFiOmGs1iYK63bo1PE9kIC9IenLfzLPStvBGvPXX6sY0gal87Cfx7mj4I9PeAf_zcUoDShl_oDsEfLz9yeHjQ/s5096/Dream%20Valves.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3694" data-original-width="5096" height="411" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZusPMNS1VTQ2gXv-QTai8PNBJk3nFQf9xKixZxQClcYiETGrt33ZvDTqUo5enXYyWW4ND7PaEKAUl_bkfhERI_Rca8kA1jUa7YpJnNjnFiOmGs1iYK63bo1PE9kIC9IenLfzLPStvBGvPXX6sY0gal87Cfx7mj4I9PeAf_zcUoDShl_oDsEfLz9yeHjQ/w567-h411/Dream%20Valves.jpg" width="567" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Areez Katki</b>
Dream Valves, 2023
Kaolinite clay, raku, Caspian Sea sand
Individual parts varied, total upon installation
(base): 12.2 x 16.5 x 6.2 inches Courtesy of Areez Katki and TARQ </td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: justify;">Through inquisitive research, Katki began studying the contents of Tablet IV from the Epic of Gilgamesh, an ancient Mesopotamian odyssey. The narrative of the poem serves as the conceptual tableau for Katki’s Oneiria series of embroidered panels, as well as their painted studies. Inspired by Gilgamesh’s journey across an apocalyptic dreamscape with Enkidu, Katki exercised his own psychoanalytic dream-keeping journal where his anxieties of loss, death, and fear unfurled. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Transcribing, illustrating, and embroidering these visions on khadi panels, Katki reveals his own surreal, often cinematic, visions interlaced with anxieties from a queer antecedent. Five Fragments, which precede the larger Oneiria panels, can be viewed as the artist’s early experiments with using Sumerian cuneiform—the language that the Epic of Gilgamesh was originally inscribed in four millennia ago. These panels are composed with cuneiform symbols which the artist has studied extensively, to form a glossary of unique phrases, made up of simple words that these compositions evoke both linguistically and pictorially. Extending his research around ancient Indigenous histories, Katki has closely examined what remains of Achaemenid art over the past seven years. The process began with an exploration of Persepolitan archives and propagated into a series of nine diptych works on paper. Eliminating scientific and archaeological precision, the works cite artifacts, architectural motifs and subjects from a destroyed and pilfered past, to now reframe and reimagine these histories in a series of enlivened polychromatic compositions.</p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdXOO6p0vHEfT4OHPpWn6sR-zKlVuzeQyNzFByiL7p9XL-hqUmX9JKo0A9sxXbt6eXFC9Z51AK0B0qFZVLro33BFAVyb1MX3RKFuVOUyq8csfL_l8OyAl4qIoe-g9ya9s5tbtTKELVecDRgWeYF4HEK-wLveMiAfaUC8pR7T7jJGRq4gF-bmMlL-bSKnU/s4959/Anointed%203%20Saffron.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4330" data-original-width="4959" height="484" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdXOO6p0vHEfT4OHPpWn6sR-zKlVuzeQyNzFByiL7p9XL-hqUmX9JKo0A9sxXbt6eXFC9Z51AK0B0qFZVLro33BFAVyb1MX3RKFuVOUyq8csfL_l8OyAl4qIoe-g9ya9s5tbtTKELVecDRgWeYF4HEK-wLveMiAfaUC8pR7T7jJGRq4gF-bmMlL-bSKnU/w554-h484/Anointed%203%20Saffron.jpg" width="554" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Areez Katki
</b>Anointed 3: Saffron, 2023
Mixed media on Arches cotton paper
12.2 x 12.2 inches
Copyright: Copyright Areez Katki, 2023</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: left;">The newest addition to Katki’s visual language is his venture into three-dimensional earth-based forms where Kaolinite clay, a material sourced and processed from his mother’s garden in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, behaves as a cultural marker of geographic locationality. Katki’s fascination with archaeology and materials from the quotidian, often found and restored, has seen him venture into this arena of excavation and restoration that attempt to reframe the practice of archaeology as a pedagogy rooted in care.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy2ZRxTKYg67PPhUjbpeQnCMgq-ptXqbsTYkq2rN0CIIOwR_24HUA0P7WXpCg-T8jDCNRI4AIl0R9hgPmiwrLPUqWS2yVq0XxBy6cMGQK9oq_eW3kzdN42XK-RcCDbn4_zM5MdTH1M7VRAFUtuad4xIyhxJxWIcuzbhJaX37mVD3NLH4OfYOqRB5AAuVk/s4122/Three%20Clever%20Boys.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4122" data-original-width="3831" height="588" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy2ZRxTKYg67PPhUjbpeQnCMgq-ptXqbsTYkq2rN0CIIOwR_24HUA0P7WXpCg-T8jDCNRI4AIl0R9hgPmiwrLPUqWS2yVq0XxBy6cMGQK9oq_eW3kzdN42XK-RcCDbn4_zM5MdTH1M7VRAFUtuad4xIyhxJxWIcuzbhJaX37mVD3NLH4OfYOqRB5AAuVk/w545-h588/Three%20Clever%20Boys.jpg" width="545" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Areez Katki
</b>Three clever boys, 2023
Watercolour on Arches cotton paper
Top: 11.69 x 8.26 inches
Bottom: 5.9 x 11.81 inches
Diptych
Copyright: Copyright Areez Katki, 2023</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: justify;">As articulated by Adwait Singh, who has written an essay accompanying the show, “Throughout the current body of work, we notice a use of history that can be termed queer. Katki deliberately hones these unexpected and at times irreverent modes of accessing and mobilising the past perhaps as a corrective to the differential resistance that the discipline has developed over the course of its established use. This resistance can prove particularly prohibitive to those in the margins who aspire to get their stories admitted into the high annals of history. Faced with systematic exclusions produced by inherent resistances that are as unforgiving as they are relentless, Katki seems to have come up with a reworked mandate: throw a wrench in history.”</p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAocPQXIkZ5TE3qPww4pugva5ZsFl_5u0jJXQkUXavtsfEmqmr8KhKRv-5xFGra_jHvzyRpzVx9EvVHnZQTx4ijfjU2iBC79EObCIhtXSD5gc-pVM2Uc-dS2sdaOWOGq2aRwETV9UeXzQDTdXCknJqL8ZfZW-mPrnGqJ6cZsxrtVarN2o8OpmEGREOunA/s3008/TARQ.%20Areez%20Image.%20Photo%20Credit_Tia%20Ranginui.jpg" style="clear: right; font-weight: 700; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3008" data-original-width="2008" height="738" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAocPQXIkZ5TE3qPww4pugva5ZsFl_5u0jJXQkUXavtsfEmqmr8KhKRv-5xFGra_jHvzyRpzVx9EvVHnZQTx4ijfjU2iBC79EObCIhtXSD5gc-pVM2Uc-dS2sdaOWOGq2aRwETV9UeXzQDTdXCknJqL8ZfZW-mPrnGqJ6cZsxrtVarN2o8OpmEGREOunA/w494-h738/TARQ.%20Areez%20Image.%20Photo%20Credit_Tia%20Ranginui.jpg" width="494" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Artist: Areez Katki </b></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>About the Artist</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Areez Katki's practice dwells around conceptual and material-based intersections which survey the phenomenology of postcolonial identities. Fragmentations of a migrant identity can be traced through objects and material culture, in the recesses of collective memories that host spiritual cosmologies and queering orientations. These relational embodiments and correspondences with materiality are underpinned in Sara Ahmed’s statement that, “Objects extend bodies, certainly, but they also seem to measure the competence of bodies and their capacity to ‘find their way’.” (‘The Orient and Other Others’ Queer Phenomenology 2006).</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Navigating across disciplines and pedagogies, Katki’s practice looks toward generating deeper understandings of such affective material. His work also tends to pose questions around conditions such as hybridity, particularly through embodiments that have been subject to rupture. While investigative acts of gathering and conservation run throughout Katki’s nearly decade-long art practice, his writing contextualizes the repurposing of historic material through ongoing engagements with storied narratives and biomythography. Both practices examine the historic and the personal, using gestures which survey the nature of (our) relationships with sites and embodiments.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Katki's work has been exhibited across Oceania, Asia, North America and Europe. It is held in numerous public and private collections internationally. Katki has been invited to present a significant new body of work in ‘Personal Structures’ at the 60th Venice Biennale in 2024. He was recently appointed the Aotearoa NZ visual artist in residence at Künstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin for 2024–2025</p><p><b>As this chin melts on your knee</b></p><p>Areez Katki</p><p><b>TARQ</b></p><b>Preview: Thursday, 11th January 2024 | 5:00 – 9:00 pm </b><p></p><p>Mumbai Gallery Weekend continues from Friday, 12th January – Sunday, 14th January, 11:00 am -</p><p>8:00 pm on all three days, Show continues till 24th February 2024 </p><p>Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday 11:00 am to 6:30 pm </p><p>For further enquiries contact: press@tarq.in | +91 98213 32108 #ArtistsAtTARQ.</p><p>Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tarqmumbai/
Instagram: @tarqmumbai
Twitter: @tarqtweets</p>Art Blogazinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05784762999278115873noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2709396143721111492.post-50703128796120351632024-01-02T21:36:00.000-08:002024-01-11T20:15:00.378-08:00Layered Meanings - Ten leading Contemporary Artists <p><b><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></b><span style="color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">B</span></b><span style="font-size: 13pt;">eyond the dictionary definitions of 'Painting' and 'Sculpture',
</span></span><span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; font-size: 13pt; text-align: justify;">is something that the artists define themselves. They refuse to be tamed by
the limitations of the mediums, and device their own sense-making strategies.
From Collage to wall-mounted sculpture, they challenge the hegemony of 'oil on
canvas'. This show enumerates 10 such artists and their works, diverse from
each other but definitive in their own way.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ9vPQVyuvo1YahbpEbg_Vozkl0fkAXKYplLbQpwLkjA91FLk3BaP7y-EKEYI3Wh83mzUFwXPDPRFUleKZPY9UgTMvIvziK0VH9mwLyeRk2T-R0FHF_QqwhgX2CH28NmnWe3Pbzr-HzLaUpmgi9K08ZtRTdQ8-J0X8oqbpQtCGP6ccP2PkNoroQNkUM_E/s1753/artist-jehangir_artblogazine.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="683" data-original-width="1753" height="282" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ9vPQVyuvo1YahbpEbg_Vozkl0fkAXKYplLbQpwLkjA91FLk3BaP7y-EKEYI3Wh83mzUFwXPDPRFUleKZPY9UgTMvIvziK0VH9mwLyeRk2T-R0FHF_QqwhgX2CH28NmnWe3Pbzr-HzLaUpmgi9K08ZtRTdQ8-J0X8oqbpQtCGP6ccP2PkNoroQNkUM_E/w722-h282/artist-jehangir_artblogazine.jpg" width="722" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p>
<p style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13pt;">Curiously, the chronologically first works in this show are oils
on canvas! </span></p><p style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13pt;"><b>Sunil Gawde</b>, back in the days when he was known as an
abstract painter, sought the '</span><span style="color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">real' </span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13pt;">physical dimension of the paint he used. Eventually, it seems,
he made the thick paint smile! Gawde's thick paint was a </span><span style="color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">reminder</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13pt;"> that resulted from his action-oriented
way to deal with his canvas. He first spread his paint on his canvas evenly,
but was quick to unstable it with a large spatula. These works represent an
important phase in the artist's career, before he took to conceptual works.</span></p>
<p style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13pt;">Santana Gohain</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13pt;">, builds spaces within a given surface with many smaller
surfaces. The space-defining role of colour is negated in her works. The works
are as much about austerity of expression as about abundance of mark-making.</span></p>
<p style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13pt;">Perhaps <b>Vanita Gupta</b> explored the same path of subdued
expression in her large drawings but here, her works with strands of torn paper
ruminate on the very existence of mark-making, the senility of paper. No wonder
that Vanita, who is also a poet, took to installation art only after these
works.</span></p>
<p style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13pt;">Another artist who has passed his mid-career stage- <b>H. G.
Arunkumar</b>, is here with his works that are now one of a kind: Arunkumar
chose to do newspaper collages, but went on to draw over it and also added
another layer of </span><span style="color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">collaged </span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13pt;">images
onto it, before treating these works for longevity.</span></p>
<p style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13pt;">Pooja </span></b><b><span style="color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Iranna's</span></b><span style="color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> works </span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13pt;">are, if we may say- '</span><span style="color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">De-Collage</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13pt;">', as they refer to one image painted on the jigsaw-like pieces.
A mural-like quality is inherent in these works, after which Pooja turned to
sculptures.</span></p>
<p style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13pt;">Himanshu Joshi</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13pt;"> explores every possibility of wall-mountable
three-dimensional works, while using the element of light in his meticulously
crafted paper-fold works. Recently, Himanshu has also turned to photo-collages
with light.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13pt;">Puneet Kaushik</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13pt;"> is known for his choice of colour as much as his use of
beads and elements of embroidery. His wall-mounted works radiate the richness
of his material, and at a closer look, evoke a melancholic joy.</span></p>
<p style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13pt;">Abhijit Pathak</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13pt;"> treats pieces of cloth as his terrain and marks his
mindscapes over them. The transparency he maintains is flawless. Pathak
provides a viewer with maps to her/his dreams.</span></p>
<p style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13pt;">Nilesh Kinkale</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13pt;">, on the other hand, celebrates the ground reality; </span><span style="color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">literally</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13pt;">. He chooses a unique surface for
art-making: Asphalt, commonly used for our roads. Nilesh's practice for nearly
two and half decades has been based on celebrating the everyday, as many
artists from Mumbai (since Prabhakar Barwe) have done. Yet, Nilesh works on his
own terms and takes ample liberty to go beyond drawing-and-painting the
everyday object. These objects are now </span><span style="color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">embedded </span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13pt;">in Asphalt.</span></p>
<p style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13pt;">Smita Kinkale</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13pt;"> reconciles the mundane material with fantasy landscapes.
She bends, burns and blurs plastic sheets for her wall mounted works. The
potential of her works to challenge the aesthetic notions is acknowledged
internationally.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13pt;">What binds these works is the quest for </span><span style="color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">meanings</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13pt;">. While these works may not send some
explicit messages to a viewer who is eager to 'get it and go'; the artists have
explored possibilities of their surfaces and materials to an extent that they
know what it means to handle such a surface. The term 'layered meaning', is
typically used in postmodern parlance to denote the diversity in decipherment.
The artists, through their diverse approaches and choices, have all deciphered
the strengths of their choice.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjzcD-2o9DF7OKLb4xz9Bu35ztCDlvUQ8Tn4CPiZE8Y9zzmw7TID7Dzsby739sIvtofDsjHPEUwUzztGNbh-wDNpIbmHfwd7oTWP1SYyQY1K-8yAC8qje2X9TM0coyd-Ih1hvMe7PqOuoM3lMEOPCasBLs85-X-4c05zJgnOAcalCbcoPsvH4Wk6tkT2k/s800/Abhijeet-Tamhane.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="800" height="120" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjzcD-2o9DF7OKLb4xz9Bu35ztCDlvUQ8Tn4CPiZE8Y9zzmw7TID7Dzsby739sIvtofDsjHPEUwUzztGNbh-wDNpIbmHfwd7oTWP1SYyQY1K-8yAC8qje2X9TM0coyd-Ih1hvMe7PqOuoM3lMEOPCasBLs85-X-4c05zJgnOAcalCbcoPsvH4Wk6tkT2k/w120-h120/Abhijeet-Tamhane.jpg" width="120" /></a></div><p style="background: white; text-align: right;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; font-size: 13pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><b>Abhijeet Tamhane</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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