Four stellar works to see at Frieze London
Jhaveri Contemporary and Experimenter Gallery have a repertoire of contemporary art works that present rhythms and resonance and modulations of observation and contemplation in the works of 4 stellar...
View ArticlePrasad KP’s earth songs at Palette Art Gallery
Prasad KP’s earth songs of nature and the landscape at Palette Art Gallery plays like a medley of sonatas that peal out and ask us to listen to the rhythms of the earth. Born in...
View ArticleMadhvi Parekh’s medley at Frieze Masters London
DAG’s Ashish Anand is raising a toast to women in Indian contemporary art with the acquisition of Madhvi Parekh’s work at Metmuseum NYC. Anand who has been quietly collecting Madhvi’s works for more...
View ArticleShuvaprasanna’s Golden Flute at Gallerie Nvya
Gallerie Nvya embraces the festival season with Shuvaprasanna’s Golden Flute at Triveni Kala Sangam. Tripat Kalra has been following Shuvaprasanna for nearly two decades and has created a show that has...
View ArticleParesh Maity’s engaging eye in Delhi
Art Alive’s magnum opus of Paresh Maity’s Infinite Light opens in Delhi in the coming week and it offers his meanderings with moods, multiple materials, experience and memory. Maity who considers JMW...
View ArticleDonum Estate’s ode to three women sculptors
Louise Bourgeois’s captivating Crouching Spider 2003 , Yayoi Kuasama’s Pumpkin 2014, and Amer Ghada’s calligraphic charisma in The Words I love the Most 2012. The Donum Estate Winery in California...
View ArticleKristine Michael’s Ceramic Cluster at British Council Delhi
Kristine Michael the ceramic artist , ceramic guru, author, the country’s finest ceramic curator sent me an invitation to a small Charles Wallace scholarship artists exhibition at the British Council...
View ArticleVaikuntam’s ladies and the mirror at saffronart
At Saffronart in Delhi , Thota Vaikuntam’s exhibition is a melange of magical portraits that celebrate the Dravidian dark skin of the people of Telangana. In the twinkle of an eye you sense his fine...
View ArticleParesh Maity’s most sublime painting at IHC
At the far end horizontal wall at Visual Arts Gallery hangs Paresh Maity’s painting Source of Existence an oil and acrylic on canvas that is at once an amalgam of an introspective, as well as...
View ArticleHaseena Suresh’s Heads at Clay Fingers Trichur
This July my familial duties took me to the township of Trichur for a wedding and I was booked to spend three nights at Clayfingers. Exhausted after my flight and a late sadya , I...
View ArticleBest quartet at Raza’s Triveni Tribute
The 13 Raza Awardees are all names that rankle of a certain place and position in the art scenario. Bringing them together in memory of the centurion Raza can be an exercise that demands...
View ArticleJyoti Bhatt’s Portrait of an Artist cuts through the Ages
At Bihar Museum Patna in 2019, my eyes fell on a portrait by Jyoti Bhatt of Himmat Shah taken in Ahmedabad in 1969. Natural , powerful and full of a primordial intensity here was a...
View ArticleSaffronart’s Souza sale this December
Barbara Zinkat’s Collection of Francis Newton Souza drawings goes under the hammer this Yuletide season (17th December ) at Saffronart in Mumbai and it has a bevy of beauties in drawings. Headsmen and...
View ArticleIndian masters patterns of the past at Vadehras
To celebrate the Catalogue Raisonne of Sayed Haider Raza at 100 years, Vadehra Art Gallery’s in-house curator Sonia Ballaney has put together a historic summation of Indian masters patterns of the past...
View ArticleModern masters unveil at Nvya, Triveni Kala Sangam
At the Triveni Kala Sangam Gallerie Nvya has a small space and it knits together works from Indian masters by the versatile curatorial eye of collector connoisseur Tripat Kalra. In a suite of drawings...
View ArticleTwo stellar artists at Anant Art Naya Anjor
The capital city of Delhi is seeing a number of young curators who are spreading their wings. It’s a mixed bag of minds but Arushi Vats of Anant Art is one of the finest. Her...
View ArticleParesh Maity’s iconic faces at CIMA
At his show Infinite Light at Bikaner House , in Delhi unveiled by Art Alive, Paresh Maity spoke to me about his love for drawing and painting human faces; how much he loved studying the faces of...
View ArticleDAG’s suite of works excel in design festival at Mumbai
Mumbai’s art aficionados are revelling in the design dynamics of the AD Design 2022 festival ( designed by Komal Sharma and team) and DAG’s presence within its gala medley is a suite that echoes not...
View ArticleSachin George Sebastian’s Paper flower ensembles in Mumbai
Magical geometric modularity merged with a tensile tenor in Sachin George Sebastian’s twin floral study installations at the Vadehra Art Gallery’s suite of artists at the AD Design 2022 festival....
View ArticleAakriti gallery’s ode to Indian independence
Aakriti Art Gallery Kolkata pays an ode to 75 years of Indian Independence with an epic exhibition titled ‘FREEDOM: FROM DESPAIR TO DREAM’. Curated by the brilliant art writer and Curator Mrinal...
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