Palette’s platter of dynamics and dimensions
A sculpture show at Palette Art Gallery is as much about the drama of light and installation as it is about sculpture. Rohit Gandhi and Rahul Khanna are known show stoppers not just in the...
View Article5 masterpices at Astaguru’s December sale
AstaGuru will host its upcoming Modern Indian Art auction on December 27-28, 2021, featuring artworks by the avant-garde of the Modern Indian Art world such as Tyeb Mehta, M F Husain, F N Souza,...
View ArticleProsanta Roy’s pleasure boat at DAG NY
THE WIND is up, I set, my sail of songs, Steersman, sit at ‘the helm. For my boat is fretting to be free, to dance in the rhythm of the wind and water. The day...
View ArticleJamini Roy’s Last Supper at DAG NY
Amongst the early masters in DAG’s Wonder of India suite at NY is a Last Supper by Jamini Roy. In the telling testimony of this Biblical moment, Roy created his Christ series with a sense of...
View ArticleTwo modern Bengal Masters- Girl and The Mirror
The girl and the mirror-a subject that is older than history, older than time. The feminine form and the mirror belongs also to the art of a movement that would become traced from realism to...
View ArticleDhananjay Singh’s man and nature
Ever since his days as a student at the College of Art Delhi Dhananjay Singh has been creating trees with the passion of poets and authors from days of yore like Walt Whitman and Hermann...
View ArticleArpitha Reddy’s Vriksha at Rang Ameer
Guruvayur School trained Arpitha Reddy celebrates the scriptures and the soul of images and elements from antiquity in her Vriksha II which extols the virtues of the tree of life or the kalpavriksha....
View ArticleJayasri Burman’s sculptures revere River Ganga
Art exposure’s unique odyssey of drawings, paintings and 4 sculptures by Jayasri Burman at Bikaner House in Delhi was rooted in the landscape of experience history and memory. The genesis of being in...
View ArticlePuneet Kaushik’s material metaphors
In more ways than one Puneet Kaushik’s show at Gallery Espace unveils and affirms that he is every bit a historical alchemist, with installations—as he arranges his threaded materials to create...
View ArticleMadhvi and Manu Parekh at Musee Rodin Paris
Picture this: subtle monochromatic haute couture, rusty grey, black, and ivory white, set against art deco shapes and virtuoso embroidery. Uncanny how a scene of the setting sun in Benares mirrors the...
View ArticleGravitas filled Gaitonde at Pundoles
It was in 2005 that I set eyes upon two Gaitonde works in the collection of Bodhi Art and wrote a catalogue for the Singapore and Delhi show of a few abstractionists including Sayed Haider...
View ArticleBendre’s vintage Mahadev Mandir landscape
90 works in the Kumar Gallery Collection have a vintage NS Bendre that belongs to 1945. This cute quaint gouache is a veritable treat for tired eyes. One can imagine Virendra Kumar the founder of...
View ArticleMilburn Cherian at Jehangir art gallery
To gaze at 90 works of NID graduate and painter Milburn Cherian at Jehangir Art Gallery for the next few days, is to peer into a whole landscape of characters -but she says she loved the...
View ArticleAt Art Basel OVR 2021 Australian aboriginal art stuns
Art Basel is known worldwide as the preeminent art fair with this year’s edition welcoming 59 galleries from over 20 countries and territories. The Art Basel press releases carried a surreal sensation...
View ArticleNeeraj Gupta’s human catastrophe at IHC
After getting the entire city of Delhi to eulogise over his elephant installation Heaven and Earth at iSculpt 3 at the India International Centre Neeraj Gupta’s latest unveiling is a small curious and...
View ArticleSpotlight on Arpita Singh at two auctions
February and March — two months, two auctions and two works by the same artist created in 1996 and 2009. The artist in question is India’s greatest contemporary art woman artist Arpita Singh. The two...
View ArticlePower and Panache at Pundole’s auction
“ Glenbarra: A Lasting Legacy provides an interesting view into Masanori Fukuoka’s collecting history. Beginning in the early 1990s, his collecting choices ranged from artists that were already...
View ArticleSubodh Gupta’s Cosmic Corollaries
Subodh Gupta’s solo exhibition Cosmic Battle , unravels like a series of corollaries in conversations that flit back and forth as he translates the transition of tradition to modernity at Nature Morte...
View ArticleArt exposure’s NFT debut with Paresh Maity
The world has woken up to the new transactional idiom of NFTs and India’s stellar artist Paresh Maity’s NFT debut with Artexposure as the owner , is a classic case of ownership with the physical...
View ArticleGivenchy collection marries modernity and classicism at Christies
Christie’s unveils the first major works from Hubert de Givenchy’s collection. With over 1,200 lots dating from the 17th to the 20th century, this collection features a remarkable gathering of nearly...
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