Archive for the ‘Indian Art’ Category
PUNARNAWA CRAFTS is committed to Odisha Crafts. Loved the simple details and the vibrant colours. Find them here.
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Tags: 61c, Boho Gypsy, Playclan, Punarnawa
Discovered! Kuhelee Khandelwal
I discovered her three years ago and it’s taken this long to convince her to share her work. Kuhelee has a delightful mind. And an intimate way of crafting things. A stray bead, left over wire, pins, scrap fabric – she sees possibilities in everything around her. And has the ability to make it look […]
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Tags: Clay Creatures, Elephants Remember, Kuhelee Khandelwa, Kuhelee Khandelwal, Memory Box, Paper Weights, Pebble Drawings, Pentee Pies, Stone drawings
Bhagyanath C – Ventriloquism Kashi Art Gallery Archives, December 12, 2010 – January 7, 2011 The series delves into the theory of Evolution and the awareness of the shared fate of the beings of the world. This interaction between Pig and Man seemed so peaceful and complete – no foreignness in their touch, only familiarity […]
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Tags: Bhagyanath C, NN Rimzon, Priti Vadakkath, T.S. Satyan
As visitors to grand Palaces, Temples, Mosques and Tombs, we are likely to come away more with awe than with a picture of what we have really seen. Often, details merge with a memory of the whole. Until someone points out the complexities and captures them so we can study how the place came to […]
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Tags: Book Review, Henry Wilson, Pattern and Ornament in the Arts of India, Thames and Hudson
Now Showing > Ashwamedh
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Tags: Ashwamedh, Gallery Maskara, Max Streicher
Now Showing > Where am I?
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Tags: Experimenter Kolkata, Where am I?
Now Showing > Scratch
Sakshi Gallery’s 25th anniversary show. Curated by Swapan Seth. Opens November 12th, 6pm at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi. Promises to be interesting. Details on the Sakshi Gallery website.
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Tags: Sakshi Art Gallery, Scratch, Swapan Seth
Experimenter, the only gallery from India exhibiting at the Frieze Art Fair in London this October. FRIEZE ART FAIR, London, 14-17th October 2010 Fair Opening hours: Thursday 14 October: 11am-7pm, Friday 15 October: 11am-7pm, Saturday 16 October: 11am-7pm, Sunday 17 October: 11am-6pm.
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Tags: Experimenter, Frieze Art Fair, Prateek Raja, Priyanka Raja
Bombay Electric | 1 Reay House I Best Marg I Colaba I Mumbai +91 22 2287 6276 http://www.bombayelectric.in
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Tags: Bombay Electric, Little Shilpa
Now Showing > Say Everything
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Tags: Prateek Raja, Priyanka Raja
Showing > This is Unreal
This Is Unreal – Raqs Media Collective, Susanta Mandal & Yamini Nayar, 23rd July – 5th September 2010 EXPERIMENTER 2/1 Hindusthan Road, Kolkata – 29, +91 (33) 4001 2289 / 2463 0465 info@experimenter.in, http://www.experimenter.in
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Tags: Experimenter, Kolkata, Prateek Raja, Priyanka Raja
Design Feature > Runjhun Jain
A graduate of the College of Art – Delhi, Runjhun is an ex-advertising creative director who doodles, styles ad shoots and loves creating, in her own words, ‘easy, quirky and honest’ designs. Her maiden collection of cushions uses dori work, chawal tanka and applique to translate her doodles onto fabric. “I was sure I didn’t […]
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Tags: Applique, Cushions, Doodles, Indian Embroidery, Runjhun Jain
Poet, Novelist, Playwright, Musician, Artist, Nobel Laureate, founder of ‘Vishwa Bharti’. This year marks the 150th anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore. Born in 1861, Tagore turned artist at the age of 67 experimenting with various mediums. Tagore said of his art, “People often ask me about the meaning of my pictures. I remain silent even as […]
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New @ Tara Books
More on their website.
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Tags: durga bai, Gita Wolf, Tara Books
Published > Raja Ravi Varma
“This book by Rupika Chawla is an account of Ravi Varma’s traditional background and environment in the context of colonial India, and the relationship of this milieu with his profession as an aristocratic itinerant painter. This lavishly illustrated book brings together paintings from royal and private collections and museums, and works that have never been […]
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Tags: Mapin Publishing, Painting Indian Royalty, Raja Ravi Varma, Rupika Chawla
Typographica and Seminar: On 17th Feb, W+K Exp, Delhi will showcase the world of Seminar Magazine, India’s own groundbreaking testament to the power of the word. Celebrated over its 50 years for bringing “opposing viewpoints within the covers of a single magazine”, this exhibition does not delve into the content of the magzine, rather it […]
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Tags: Empire Strikes Back, Gallery BMB, Her work is never done, Saatchi Gallery, Seminar Magazine, W+K Exp
“Artistically, terracotta is the medium where many ideas were first experimented upon before they were committed to stone. At the same time, Many of these artefacts were used in ephemeral rituals and then discarded; their study thus permits an insight into those aspects of religious worship little studied in a field where the emphasis has […]
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Tags: Jnanapravaha, JNU, Naman P Ahuja, Terracota Research
Aakash Nihalani is a Brooklyn based artist who works with the medium of tape in public places around New York.
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Tags: Aakash Nihalani, Tape Art
Caught my eye > Kaali and Klove
> Part of a Religare Arts Initiative exhibition held in Jan 2009.
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Shout Out! > Mithila Artists
The last known authentic Mithila artists, Satya Narayan Lal Karn and Moti Karn are exhibiting at Jamaat Art Gallery till October 7th. Do catch the show. Thank you Dev.
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Tags: Indian Art, Jamaat Art Gallery, Mithila Artists, Moti Karn, Satya Narayan Lal Karn
New Release > Do!
Tara Books has a new release. DO! It’s a wonderful way to integrate Indian art with education without making it too complicated. Here are some pages from the book.
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Tags: Do!, India Tribal Art, Kusum Dhadpe, Ramesh Hengadi, Rasika Hengadi, Shantaram Dhadpe, Tara Books, Verbs, Warli Art
I stumbled upon Bhuri Bai’s work on Hervé Perdriolle’s blog and was fascinated by her imagination and craft. Found the interesting works of Jangarh Singh Shyam and Jivya Soma Mashe as well. Presenting all three. Bhuri Bai, Bhill Tribe
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Tags: Bhuri Bai, Herve Perdriolle, Indian Tribal Art, Jangarh Singh Shyam, Jivya Singh Mashe
Discovered! Mom Made Co.
*An Indian By Design Exclusive* Mom Made Co is the brainchild of Bhautik Siddhapura who decided to hand make all his t-shirts. Each one is numbered, handpainted and unique. Here are a few of them.
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Tags: Bhautik Siddhapura, Mom Made Co, T shirt Design
Aarohi Singh is a self taught artist. She paints in Oil, Acrylics, Watercolor, Pastels and works on Paper, Canvas, Metal, Cardboard, Wood, Fabric. Ambika from Little by Little(lovely girl, much potential) mentioned her. So I checked her website. I like what Aarohi’s done with the trunk and chair and the kettle. Her paintings though didn’t […]
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Tags: Aarohi Singh, Ambika Rao, Indian Kitsch, lillbylill
*An Indian By Design Exclusive* Tara was my first feature on Indian By Design. I was fascinated by the handmade children’s books they published. My favourite being The Night Life of Trees. The artists from Gond – Bhajju Shyam, Durga Bai and Ram Singh Urvet – were a revelation. A collective of writers based in […]
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Tags: Gita Wolf, Indian Children's Books, Indian Design, Tara Publishing
Now Showing > Chidiya Udd
Kavita’s having her first solo exhibition. If you’re in Bangalore, do attend. She does great work.
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Tags: Chidiya Udd Solo Exhibition, Indian Art
*An Indian By Design exclusive* In conversation with Anupam Poddar, Devi Art Foundation IndianByDesign:Can one clearly distinguish between art and what is not art, today? Anupam Poddar: I think it is still easy to tell what is ‘art’- the sanctioned and sanctified object. It is not as if we have moved much beyond that system […]
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Tags: An Indian By Design Exclusive, Anupam Poddar, Devi Art Foundation
Art Feature> Devi Art Foundation
*An Indian By Design Exclusive* The opening of Lekha and Anupam Poddar’s new not-for-profit art space would preempt a surfeit of words on artists and collections. But I choose to speak first of their latest commissioned work – the Sirpur Mills Building. For it is as much art as all that it holds or will […]
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Tags: Anupam Poddar, Art feature, Devi Arts Foundation, Gurgaon, Indian Architecture, Indian Art, Lekha Poddar, Sirpur Mills Building
Speaking Stones, 1998 by NN Rimzon . Now showing at Kashi Art Gallery as part of the ONLY ONE series.
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Tags: Brighu Sharma, Indian Art, NN Rimzon, OED, Ore, Rajan Krishnan, Ratheesh T
Occupying Silence by Devashish Makhija. At Gallery Kanishkas, Calcutta. From 21 August to 10 September 2008. Write to nakedindianfakir (at) gmail (dot) com to buy/preview the catalog. I enjoyed the beautifully written notes from the past that inspired his works.
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Tags: Devashish Makhija, Gallery Kanishkas, Graphic Verse, Indian Art
I support > Craft Revival Trust
The Craft Revival Trust covers an exhaustive spectrum of information on handicraft, handloom, folk and tribal art in Asia. The content is sourced from a wide, credible and knowledgeable network of researchers, practitioners, academics, students from across the world. Now available for sale at the Craft Online Shop Peacock Pencil, Parrot Pencil, Windmill Pencil
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Tags: Craft Revival, Design, I Support, Indian, Indian Craft
Now Showing > Dhruvi Acharya
“ONE LIFE ON EARTH” will be on view from August 7 – 30, 2008 at Chemould Prescott Road in Mumbai and from October 4 – November 1, 2008 at Nature Morte in New Delhi. More work on her website.
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Tags: Design, Dhruvi Acharya, Exhibit, Indian, Indian Art, Now Showing
*An Indian By Design Exclusive* I first saw her poring over sketches and doodles and drawings and a half-finished series of Cats on Chairs. She was so childlike in her enthusiasm, in her curiosity for feedback. Her art, much like her, is simple, genuine and rooted. In conversation with Kavita Arvind, artist, NID faculty and […]
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Tags: An Indian By Design Exclusive, Chidiya Udd, In Conversation, Indian Art, Indian Design, Interview, Kavita Arvind
I love her style, and I think she’s priced it very reasonably – Rs 7000 to Rs 22000. Contact Kavita Arvind. A-406, Fourth Floor, Purva Sunshine, Main Sarjapur Road, Bangalore 560008. Email: chidiyaudd at gmail.com. Website: http://www.chidiyaudd.in. Work can be couriered to other cities.
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Tags: Indian Art, Kavita Arvind, Shout Out
Europe belongs to Picasso, Matisse and Braque and many others. India belongs only to me. She died at an age people start discovering what they’re all about. 28. Too young. 1913-1941. But what a life it’s been.
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Tags: amrita sher-gil, Art Walk, Indian Art, Tate Modern
Tara is run by a collective of writers based in Chennai, India. They work with a range of adventurous writers and artists from around the world, and create books in house as well. I loved their Indian sensibility and their aesthetics. Beautiful. You’ll find them here.
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Tags: Children's Books, Indian Art, Just Found, Publishing, Tara
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