A note on the issue: The confluence of art and science
1 year ago

A note on the issue: The confluence of art and science

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The trees at the new Science Gallery Bengaluru wear backpacks, lumpy little triangles of brown strapped to their trunks. I assumed it was a new-fangled gardening tool to send nutrients directly into weakened trees, but inside the gallery, standing in front of an interactive installation by artist Jane Tingley, I realised the little backpacks housed sensors that tracked the way the trees react to wind, carbon dioxide in the air, sunshine, rain, sound and ambient light. About 100 years ago, Albert Einstein said that the greatest scientists are artists as well, but in India, the distinction between science and art remains particularly stark. Fortunately, a number of artists across the country have started pushing back against this presumption and are using science as the basis for their art, as our cover story details this week. Indian artists and gallerists are also making their way to Art Basel Hong Kong this week, showcasing work of emerging and established artists whose work addresses issues of belonging, borders and interconnectedness.

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‘Deconstructed Realms’: A new exhibition explores India's tryst with cubism
1 month, 3 weeks ago

‘Deconstructed Realms’: A new exhibition explores India's tryst with cubism

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In J. Sultan Ali’s Milkmaid, you can see a vibrant folk idiom come together with the cubist style. A new exhibition at DAG, Deconstructed Realms: India’s Tryst with Cubism, features over a hundred such works by 40 artists, including Gaganendranath Tagore, Nandalal Bose, George Keyt and Biren De who innovated with this largely Western construct in an Indian context in …

2024: Milestones in the art world
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3 months ago

2024: Milestones in the art world

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It would be hard to look at 2024 in isolation. TRANSFORMATIVE YEAR FOR ART SPACES 2024 was the year of milestones for art spaces—new ones opened up for niche themes while existing ones celebrated landmark years. View Full Image Soghra Khurasani and Saju Kunhan, ‘Untitled’, courtesy: the artists and TARQ Delhi-based GallerySKE and PHOTOINK ended the year with an announcement …

On an ‘Encounters’ trail at Art Basel Hong Kong
1 year ago

On an ‘Encounters’ trail at Art Basel Hong Kong

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Art Basel Hong Kong is nothing short of a labyrinth with nearly 242 galleries and thousands of works on display. “This year under the theme ‘I am a part of all that I have met’, Encounters is an invitation to engage with the multiplicity of art, and an acknowledgment that experience shapes perspective.” I would not have believed it possible …

Wonder and wisdom: When art and science meet
1 year ago

Wonder and wisdom: When art and science meet

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Carbon is all around us in multiple forms, but we have come to equate the chemical element with rising emissions and view it as a polluting force. “The exhibits and programmes at CARBON are created by artists and scientists working together, inviting the visitors to see how the gap between art and science can be bridged,” Phalkey explains. “Art allows …

A note on the issue: A season for art and artistry
1 year, 2 months ago

A note on the issue: A season for art and artistry

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Art always stirs curiosity—whether we are touched or baffled by an artist’s work, we are inquisitive about what prompted them to create it. All of these concerns of artists are reflected in the pages of our art special, timed as usual just ahead of the annual India Art Fair in Delhi. We go a little further this year, as our …

Bengaluru is flexing its cultural muscle
1 year, 3 months ago

Bengaluru is flexing its cultural muscle

The Hindu  

Bengaluru is a shapeshifter. RavichandarHonorary director, Bangalore International Centre Bringing things closer home “These kinds of large, city-wide platforms remind people of the city’s active calendar of events,” says artist Abishek Ganesh Jayashree of Kaimurai, one of the participants of ‘The Makers’ Trail’, an event organised by Architectural Digest India’s founding editor Manju Sara Rajan as part of UBH. “The …

Three new spaces for art and culture and pondering the museum’s changing mandate
1 year, 5 months ago

Three new spaces for art and culture and pondering the museum’s changing mandate

The Hindu  

Last year, on a whim, I wrote to British-Indian sculptor Anish Kapoor, inviting him, along with dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, and award winning West African architect Francis Kere, to create public artworks in India. But, what had driven me to this illogical invite was the fact that both Indian gallery art and public art rarely ever make magnanimous and …

Exhibition brings together works by seven pioneering Indian artists
2 years, 4 months ago

Exhibition brings together works by seven pioneering Indian artists

Hindustan Times  

A new exhibition here has brought together works by seven pioneering Indian artists -- Akbar Padamsee, Krishen Khanna, Arpita Singh, Jyoti Bhatt, Gulam Mohammed Sheikh, Himmat Shah and Vivan Sundaram -- often credited for shaping the landscape of art in post-Independence India. Exhibition brings together works by seven pioneering Indian artists "Around the Table: Conversations about Milestones, Memories, Mappings", organised …

19 artists respond to the climate crisis
2 years, 4 months ago

19 artists respond to the climate crisis

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At the Ojas Art Gallery, in Delhi, a work by artist Gopa Trivedi catches the eye. Trivedi is one of the 19 contemporary and indigenous artists to have responded to the theme of climate crisis as part of the exhibition, ‘Echoes of the Land: Art Bears Witness to a Changing Planet’. Organised by the Sarmaya Arts Foundation in collaboration with …

‘Don’t read anything into my art’: A. Ramachandran
2 years, 7 months ago

‘Don’t read anything into my art’: A. Ramachandran

The Hindu  

His work has evolved from politically explicit sculptures and paintings to colossal canvases. These days, Ramachandran’s art has evolved into peaceful images of brightly coloured lotus ponds and beautiful, traditionally-attired women that grace the homes of celebrities like Amitabh Bachchan. By this time, Ramachandran’s signature nayikas and raginis, used in a nod to Indian miniature art, which dramatises Radha-Krishna’s story …

Art collectives from the North-East focus on the community
2 years, 11 months ago

Art collectives from the North-East focus on the community

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What forms can a book take? This unique experiment was conducted in January by the Assam-based Anga Art Collective as part of kNOw School, a travelling school initiative that looks beyond set curricula and teaching methods, inspiring children to think anew about ways to bring together contemporary art forms and local material. Jayanta Mili with his artist book, which he …

\'World needs art\'
3 years ago

\'World needs art\'

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: London-based art expert Dr Cleo Roberts-Komireddi has a strong India, and in particular Hyderabad, connection, through marriage with the author and critic Kapil Komireddi, but her interest in art from Asia at large, and specifically India, stretches further back. She began reaching out to artists across south Asia, which she described as “an exciting and varied art scene but …

65 Indian artists will get together in Italy for a groundbreaking exhibition in November
3 years, 5 months ago

65 Indian artists will get together in Italy for a groundbreaking exhibition in November

The Hindu  

Sometimes art is the best catharsis. Curated by Myna Mukherjee and Davide Quadrio in collaboration with Turin’s annual contemporary art fair, Artissima, Hub India is backed by many players from the world of culture and art. Discussing the multi-part project, the curators outlined some of the main issues in a joint statement: “Crossing the cultural rubicon between modern and contemporary …

Two-day national conference at Pune provides platform for dialogue between arts and science
6 years, 2 months ago

Two-day national conference at Pune provides platform for dialogue between arts and science

Hindustan Times  

Integration of traditional Indian knowledge and modern architecture is indispensable in today’s times, as the whole intent of architecture is Indian,” said Mayank Barjatiya, a renowned energy architect in the city. He was speaking at the two-day national conference on 'Science in Performing Arts’, organised by the Savitribai Phule Pune University, Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Vigyan Prasar, New …

Art in Transit: Bengaluru's dialogues with present
8 years, 5 months ago

Art in Transit: Bengaluru's dialogues with present

Deccan Chronicle  

Bengaluru: What is a story without a current narrative? It is nothing but a ghost from the past bundled with hopes for the future, says Amitabh Kumar, the brain behind Art in Transit, an initiative that believes in depicting the ‘now’ through brush strokes. He said, “When we were researching to see how we could reclaim public spaces through art, …

World in their pockets
14 years, 6 months ago

World in their pockets

Hindustan Times  

A show like this comes once in a generation. In her book, Voices of Change, which has been launched simultaneously, she proposes that this bunch represents the “fourth or fifth generation” of Indian artists, who have “expanded Indian art like never before”. “There was a clique operating in Delhi — they wanted to keep younger artists like me out of …

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