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Me, etc. : Narcissicon by Kiran Subbaiah
by Sourav Roy
Kiran Subbaiah at Chatterjee & Lal Gallery
December 21st, 2012 - February 9th
Posted
4/14/13
Kiran Subbaiah wanted to kill himself in Suicide Note (2006) because that’s the way truly famous people rolled, according to him. While viewing Narcissicon (2012), it seemed that he had made a miserable botch of a suicide. Because this time, his selves have multiplied, taken up residence together and freely borrow clothes from each other, get into scuffles, stabbings and passive-aggressive arguments.
Kiran Subbaiah, a contemporary artist based in Bengaluru has been delighting and provoking us with his conceptual scu... [more]
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Breath by Shirazeh Houshiary at Jhaveri Contemporary : A Review
by Sourav Roy
Shirazeh Houshiary at Jhaveri Contemporary
February 26th - March 23rd
Posted
3/31/13
Being overtly spiritual doesn’t seem to be the norm in the contemporary art world. It’s amusing, considering that contemporary art world is more or less a faith-based system that combines ‘an uneasy godlessness with a religious memory’1: the cult of a faithful few, visiting hallowed premises of esoteric objects, where meanings are made and unmade by the high priests of scholarship.
Thoughts like these are bound to cross one’s mind when one is en route to the first Indian solo exhi... [more]
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How public is Public Art? A review of ZegnArt / Public India Show
by Sourav Roy
Alwar Balasubramaniam, Atul Bhalla, Sakshi Gupta, Reena Saini Kallat, Srinivasa Prasad, Gigi Scaria, Hema Upadhyay at Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum
March 2nd - May 15th
Posted
3/12/13
Visitors to Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum Mumbai this summer will be confronted by the vision of a giant cobweb made up of oversized rubber stamps on its prim Palladian facade. Though it bears the name of Reena Saini Kallat as the creator, imaginative children might look around for an escapee giant spider from the neighbouring zoo. This public work of art, Untitled (Cobweb / Crossings), is a collaboration between ZegnArt / Public, an initiative of the Italian Fashion Major Ermenegildo Zegna, and th... [more]
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Never a doll moment - Time out, Bangalore
by Barbara Ash
Barbara Ash at Five Forty Five
March 8th - March 29th
Posted
3/10/13
Barbara Ash’s recent collection of works challenges stereotypical ideas about women
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"I think it’s depressing that girls are constantly surrounded by messages that are telling them they are not acceptable unless they follow this narrow orthodoxy,” said Barbara Ash, whose sculptures and drawings have strong roots in women’s struggle with the image centric world. “It marginalises the majority and puts a focus on superficial issues rather than in de... [more]
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Body/ No Body: Yardena Kurulkar’s Homage to Impermanence
by Urshila
Yardena Kurulkar at Gallery BMB
August 11th, 2011 - September 7th, 2011
Posted
11/17/11
Death is a Dialogue between The Spirit and the Dust. "Dissolve" says Death—The Spirit "Sir I have another Trust"— Death doubts it—Argues from the Ground— The Spirit turns away Just laying off for evidence An Overcoat of Clay. - Emily Dickinson Throughout the course of art history, an artist appears with a quest to reinforce the connection between art and life, between the relentless and the ephemeral, between general philosophies and personal interpretations. Yardena Kurulkar is o... [more]
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Beware of Losing your Way
by Himali Singh Soin
Zenita Komad at The Loft At Lower Parel
January 11th, 2010 - January 31st, 2010
Posted
1/27/10
Raw, filial, erotic, curious and conceptual are words that might reveal the depth of Zenita Komad’s art—but only in the morphology and movement of the letters themselves. Here is a space where all your expectations will disprove themselves; where your mind and body will fuse and play tricks on your sense of time and space.
You enter THE LOFT, (where Zenita’s work is displayed as part of a residency sponsored by The Fuschia Tree), and everything appears “inside-out”. You pass ‘draw... [more]
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sowing seeds (international artist village camp)2009
by vagaram choudhary
Maria Rebecca Ballestra, vagaram choudhary, Chiman dangi, Bhupat dudi, Corina Gertz, Judit Hettema, Aditi Kulkarni, Lucrecia Pittaro, Rajesh pullawar, Yamauchi Terue at Village Sar
December 12th, 2009 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Posted
2/21/10
An international artist workshop was organized at Sar village, 35 kilometers from Jodhpur from 12th to 22nd December 2009. There were 12 participants, from India and abroad. The 10-day workshop comprised of interacting and conducting workshops with villagers, displaying the creative talents by using available raw materials from the village and creating their own work of art.Different project topics were selected by the artists such as a study enabling the use of colour and textiles in this dry an... [more]
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