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Digvijay Nikam What kind of relationship does the work of art bear with the artist’s body? Is the latter only an agent to aesthetic creation where the locus of any transformation is the art work and not the body? The contemporary Indian artist Nikhil Chopra has tried to bridge this chasm by foregrounding the body […]
Using Time as Material: The genre-bending durational performances of Nikhil Chopra Read More »
Digvijay Nikam To go to the National Gallery of Modern Art in Delhi on a weekend to engage in a contemplative appreciation of intricate paintings and sculptures might be one way of confronting art where the cackle of the street and the concerns of the crumbling everyday life may be kept at bay. One might
Digvijay Nikam Migration – forced and otherwise – of humans and of objects, entangled with the questions of ethnicity and race, is the defining feature of the modern globalized world. “How should art respond to it?” is the question that the diasporic artist Rina Banerjee tries to probe through her work. Born in 1963 in
Make Me a Summary of the World: Rina Banerjee’s carnivalesque sculpture installations Read More »
Tsuktiben Jamir When discussing art, architecture cannot remain in the shadows. One may build without art, but as soon as one wants to do more with it than just fulfil the bare minimal functional requirements, one must incorporate art with architecture. If your art is moving people emotionally with your works, then architecture is capable
It is Essential to be There: An exhibition that celebrates an extraordinary architect Read More »
Tsuktiben Jamir COMO Museum of Art in Lahore, Pakistan is the country’s first ever private museum; it centres around the exhibition and promotion of contemporary and modern art. Their latest solo art exhibition by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto under the title ‘Tomorrow We Inherit the Earth: A Study in Textile’ has been showing from the 28th
Tomorrow We Inherit the Earth: Through Zulfikar Ali Bhutto’s lens Read More »
Digvijay Nikam “What I am interested in is the fact of many hands…when people see work like that, they should be able to feel the presence of those people.” – Anatsui El Anatsui is a Ghanian sculptor who has garnered international acclaim for his ingenious use of everyday discarded materials in his work, especially the
The ‘Spiritual Charge’ of discarded materials in El Anatsui’s sculptures Read More »
Digvijay Nikam Yinka Shonibare CBE RA, born in 1962, is a British-Nigerian artist exploring the issues of cultural identity, colonialism, and post-colonialism through his works in today’s globalized world. He was nominated for the Turner prize in 2004, commissioned to create an installation on Trafalgar Square’s Fourth Plinth in 2010, and was elected as a
The colourful political frenzy of the fabrics of Yinka Shonibare CBE RA Read More »
Prachi Sahasrabudhe Born in 1970, Julie Mehretu is an Ethiopian- American Visual artist working consistently in the contemporary art field for more than two decades. Her conscious practice in painting, drawing, printmaking, enforces the artistic expression to evoke recurring conflicts, injustice, and social unrest through the histories. Her paintings represent elements of mapping and architecture,
The structural whirlpool of urban movements: By Julie Mehretu Read More »
Abhishek Dixit Krishnaji Howlaji Ara was born in 1914 in Bolarum near secunderbad. Because of his humble antecedents, his initial days of life were full of struggles. He lost his mother when he was just three years old and his father remarried when he was seven years old, no doubt it left a painful wound
Through the eyes of a connoisseur: K H Ara’s fascination with female nudity Read More »
Ved Prakash Bhardwaj Nandlal Bose’s name is prominent among the artists who contributed the most to shaping modern Indian art. At a time when western art had a strong influence on modern art in Bengal, Nandlal Bose differed from the rest and brought an Indian touch to local art. In the beginning, Nandlal only made
Shaping Modern Indian Art: the Postcards of Nandlal Bose Read More »