Alturaash Art’s Ae Mohabbat in Delhi
Imagine an artist who paints five love stories and traverses historical romances in the style of frescoes and murals and creates an epic exhibition of 6 canvasses that combine couples and nature and...
View ArticleNature Morte at Frieze London 2021
At Frieze London, or online on the Frieze Viewing Room, Nature Morte presents a triad of artistic practices that coalesce the beauty of reality, reproduction and aesthetic expression in the works of...
View ArticleKG Subramanyan’s Ravanna
India’s greatest art mentor, who taught 6 generations of artists created works that celebrated tradition and set a firm foundation for modernity. known fondly as Manida created a historic suite of...
View ArticleTom Vattakuzhy’s death of Gandhi
Tom Vattakuzhy’s Death of Gandhi has been in the news recently because it has been used on the cover of a book written by the grandson of the Mahatma Gandhi family. But Vattakuzhy’s Gandhi made...
View ArticleGallerie Templon stuns Frieze
You can’t miss Jim Dine at Frieze 2021. Galerie Templon is turning heads with his presentation at Frieze Masters spanning from the seventies through 2010. Dine explores one of his iconic themes...
View ArticleRewind Arpana Caur at Bikaner house
Art Alive created a magnum opus of sorts with a set of 72 works by India’s masters. Director Sunaina Anand is known for the perfection of creating a choreography of works with a melange of...
View ArticleWilliam Dalrymple’s Indian histoy gems
Intellectual curiosity and historical zest-36 images form a tensile time capsule of Indian sculptural history. William Dalrymple the Scottish historian who has a traveller’s eye and deep hunger for...
View ArticleReddappa Naidu’s deities
Think meditation, think temple traditions, the power of the ritual ,the understanding of a goddess being akin to a relic. Throw in the education of algebra and geometry and logic -you get the deeper...
View ArticleKAREN KNORR’s Transmigrations
Augusta Edwards Fine Art,London unveiled Karen Knorr’s Transmigrations this week. For Knorr the title refers to both displacement and reincarnation as well as to the migration of souls to an afterlife....
View ArticleMekhala Bahl’s abstract sojourn at Bikaner House
I stepped into Bikaner House’s Centre for Contemporary Art and knew that there would be works on the wall after the archway. Mekhala Bahl the Rhode Island School of Design alumnus created facile...
View ArticleParesh Maity’s Magnum Opus at CIMA
An affair with the city of Venice that goes back to the 1990s, watercolours that haunt your inner recesses, rural rhythms that reflect the desert lands and the thirst for water, drawings and sketches...
View ArticleFour gems at Bengal Jewels
At the Bengal Jewels show at Art Pilgrim were four works of Bengal Masters that stood apart. First was a Jogen Chowdhury charcoal that reflected his place as one of India’s greatest figurative masters....
View ArticleMukesh Sharma: Intaglios and Etchings in Chile
The Quarantena Galeria, in Chile hosted a wonderful suite of graphic prints created by the versatile artist Mukesh Sharma from India. The Baroda printmaker Mukesh Sharma is known more as an...
View ArticleSculptures at Art Heritage’s Illumination
Art Heritage opens the season of lights with Illumination.Whilst it has a melange of materials and mediums it is the three sculptors that caught my eye.Theresonant sentient beings of the master ceramic...
View ArticleGallerie Ganesha presents Haren Das flashback
Gallerie Ganesha is known for putting the spotlight on printmakers who were epic in their sojourn of printmaking careers in the yesteryears. One such master printmaker, Harendra Narayan Das specialised...
View ArticlePundole’s twin Prabha works excel
“It is my aim to paint the trauma and tragedy of women.” B Prabha Think portraits of rural Indian women who stand amidst a landscape of light and expanses, caught in the throes of poverty,...
View ArticleJNAF: Souza in Victorian Bombay
‘The power and the Glory’ is an ode to Francis Newton Souza who said Bombay was more Victorian than Victoria. How happy Souza would have been to see this seminal show curated by poet, cultural...
View ArticleKeshari Nandan’s Stoneware Tree at IIC’S iSculpt
Keshari Nandan, a National Award winning artist last year, creates a Tree of Life in stoneware that will be part of the iSculpt for Delhi show at India International Centre opening on 3rd December...
View ArticleJayasri Burman’s Gangetic lifescapes at Bikaner House
Going beyond the river Ganga which travels many worlds, Jayasri Burman’s Rivers of Faith opening at Bikaner House on 12th December is the stuff of history, memory and experience. For more than 30...
View ArticleBharti Kher’s Animus Mundi places Plato in the present
In Bharti Kher’s historic solo exhibition at Nature Morte is a stunning spectacle of a sculptural installation called Animus Mundi. It invites the human gaze and spurs us to think within and without....
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