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An exhibition on climate change featuring stories from PARI at Chennai’s DakshinaChitra

This art exhibition at Chennai’s DakshinaChitra blends local with modern and post-modern styles

There is something fiery about artist Chandrasekaran Gurusamy’s pencil sketches at DakshinaChitra’s Varija Gallery. Rivers of gazes, deconstructed bodies, faceless gods, portraits devoid of the oculus — in essence, spill over from the frame, lending the gallery fires of the artist’s subversion and dissent. Art – Politics is an exhibit featuring Chandrasekaran’s works that are premised on local, mythological and …

Art Chandrasekaran Dakshinachitra Blends

A childlike joy sneaks up on sculptor and artist PS Nandhan whenever he speaks of his art. Today, at DakshinaChitra Museum’s well-lit Varija Gallery, from early paintings and daily sketches, to large format sculptures and scrolls, a condensed take on the artist’s life comes alive as a retrospective show that he had always dreamt of. Not many people know that,” …

Dakshinachitra bridges the gap between rural and urban India

Published : Dec 14, 2022 18:00 IST Dakshinachitra, meaning “Picture of the South”, is a unique cross-cultural museum located along the Bay of Bengal some 25 kilometres south of Chennai. In a decade when India was busy ushering in its neoliberal era, Dakshinachitra brought on board Lawrence Wilfred “Laurie” Baker, the renowned British-born Indian architect inspired by the Gandhian tenet …

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Tamil Nadu’s DakshinaChitra museum’s two new projects will showcase Calicut and Kodava architecture

Grounds teeming with young school children, tourists stopping by to admire artisan demonstrations, galleries filled with a cornucopia of artefacts from across the country — these are all familiar sights at DakshinaChitra, the living museum, that has been a constant on the Chennai cultural map since its inception in December 1996. “We have planned a grand showcase in January 2023, …

An exhibition to celebrate DakshinaChitra Museum’s architect, Laurie Baker

Renowned architect Laurie Baker’s underlying principle was to give everyone a place to live. He always believed that the building should be the reflection of a person living in it and not the architecture,” says Sandhya Kannan, the curator of the exhibition titled Laurie Baker: A tribute to the architect of DakshinaChitra. “Why spend a fortune on non eco-friendly building …

How will live graffiti manifest on the walls of a museum? In the first edition of what aspires to be an annual affair, DakshinaChitra’s LangFest 2021 also hopes to redefine the institution’s image, from a static museum to an “indie talent-friendly” performance space. He says, “Cultural spaces and museums can be fun, too.” Following discussions with Chennai-based curators, artists and …

At DakshinaChitra, 70 years of political cartoons trace Indian democracy

When the museum management interns at DakshinaChitra in Chennai brainstormed ideas for its ongoing exhibition, one recurrent theme that they landed on in their discussions was ‘democracy’. They then put together Cartoon-o-cracy, an exhibition that traces seven decades of Indian democracy through political cartoons. The post-2010 period has an entire collage to itself — “For post 2010, we have done …

“I was nine years old when I started.” Thirupathi P, the stone carver from Chennai’s Dakshinachitra, laughs as he recounts his fight to follow his father’s footsteps. If I accept such commissions, they spread the word and others will come to me.” His “regular pieces” comprises idols of gods, owls, elephants, candle holders, pencil stands, pendants… The most difficult creation …

Patachitra paintings, leather puppetry from Andhra Pradesh, Kalamkari handpaintings. DakshinaChitra will be home to traditional art forms over the next week, as 30 artists engage in an intensive Tribal, Folk and Traditional Art Conclave from November 14 to 20. Organised by Lalit Kala Akademi in association with the DakshinaChitra Museum, the convention will present artists from across the country, but …

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