What to expect at the upcoming Chennai Photo Biennale
6 years, 2 months ago

What to expect at the upcoming Chennai Photo Biennale

The Hindu  

What do we see through a glass darkly? The ancient Chinese believed the latter, dubbing these creatures the ‘fauna of mirrors’ — and this concept has been adopted as the title for the second edition of the Chennai Photo Biennale. “It’s not a theme as such,” says artistic director Pushpamala N., who views it in broader terms, “as a metaphor for photography itself, a mirror portal that creates another world.” A parallel world that is “familiar yet strange, perhaps friendly and intimate, sometimes mysterious and hostile — but always magical.” Where to go Offbeat venues will be a big plus for CPB. Venues include fabulous heritage buildings like Madras University’s Senate House, Egmore Museum, and Madras Literary Society; quirky local spots such as railway stations and Elliot’s Beach; plus regular galleries. When asked where they see CPB in 10 years’ time, the team displays ample ambition; Gupta wants to put Chennai on the map as the “photo capital of India” and the home for photography the country lacks at present.

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Children show off their skills at launch of Chennai Photo Biennale’s phase 2
2 months ago

Children show off their skills at launch of Chennai Photo Biennale’s phase 2

The Hindu  

“I am very proud that I’m The event’s phase 2 comprised four primary shows — ‘Love and Light: A Site of Infinite Possibilities’, ‘What Makes Me Click!’, ‘CPB4 Open Call Showcase’, and ‘Alt:Analog’ — besides eight invite-only ones. Ms. Sadhana’s photograph shows a small boy with a mobile phone sitting crouched while the shadows of the photographer and that of …

Phase two of Chennai Photo Biennale kicks off with Alt:Analog exhibition
2 months, 1 week ago

Phase two of Chennai Photo Biennale kicks off with Alt:Analog exhibition

The Hindu  

Phase two of the Chennai Photo Biennale Edition 4 kicked off on Thursday with the Alt:Analog exhibition at the Forum Art Gallery here. We started the darkroom to experiment, create and help others find the joy of analog and historical photography,” said Varun Gupta, managing trustee, CPB Foundation Director, CPB. Soham Joshi’s work, Camera and The Queer Image — Chennai, …

Chennai Photo Biennale is back: a complete guide to a three-month-long celebration of photography
3 months ago

Chennai Photo Biennale is back: a complete guide to a three-month-long celebration of photography

The Hindu  

The making of a biennale is all shades of chaos. A week ago, scaffoldings, stacked prints, and the trusty measuring tape were all that characterised the preparation for the ongoing fourth edition of the Chennai Photo Biennale. This time around however, while the critical lens exists, the biennale wanted to be hopeful, to perhaps lift the depressive veil that often …

Winter art and the Bengal Biennale
3 months ago

Winter art and the Bengal Biennale

The Hindu  

Director and curator Siddharth Sivakumar and Trustees Malvika Banerjee and Jeet Banerjee’s Gameplan have launched the first- ever Bengal Biennale, a multigenerational tapestry of artistic expression, bringing together a diverse array of artists and their unique perspectives. The event this winter, to be held across two venues — the university town of Santiniketan from November 29 to December 22, 2024, …

Chennai Photo Biennale Edition 4 celebrates work of women artists
3 months, 1 week ago

Chennai Photo Biennale Edition 4 celebrates work of women artists

The Hindu  

Phase 1 of the Chennai Photo Biennale Edition 4 began on Friday with its thematic enquiry, ‘Why Photograph?’. Inaugurated by dancer Anita Ratnam at Lalit Kala Akademi, it features works of women artists across India, Germany, Switzerland, France, the U.K. and Palestine. “There are 21 women artists featured in this primary show, which is about positioning women in photography as …

Bangkok Art Biennale 2024 | Anish Kapoor at the mall
3 months, 4 weeks ago

Bangkok Art Biennale 2024 | Anish Kapoor at the mall

The Hindu  

A large coral-coloured resin horn, Good Like Gaia by Italian artist Lello Esposito, curves to the sky in the gardens at the Wat Prayoon temple complex. These seemingly distinct installations cohesively come together when viewed through the lens of Bangkok Art Biennale’s 2024 theme, ‘Nurture Gaia’ — embracing themes of hybridity, contemplative ecology, femininity, disappearing knowledge, and the supernatural. Reddy’s …

Through the CPB lens: the Chennai Photo Biennale Foundation announces the fourth edition of its photo awards
1 year, 4 months ago

Through the CPB lens: the Chennai Photo Biennale Foundation announces the fourth edition of its photo awards

The Hindu  

The Chennai Photo Biennale Foundation believes that photography is not about making the perfect image; it is about telling meaningful stories that represent the times we live in. At the last edition of the CPB Photo Awards — an annual event held since 2019 to recognise excellence in photography and spotlight regional talent in smaller towns across the country — …

Chennai Photo Biennale goes hybrid; invites us to reorient how we view history
3 years, 2 months ago

Chennai Photo Biennale goes hybrid; invites us to reorient how we view history

The Hindu  

Community of Parting is a 70-minute film in ‘Maps of Disquiet’, the hybrid exhibition stitched between virtual space and physical venues, part of the third edition of the Chennai Photo Biennale. In ‘Excavating an Imagination’ at Forum Art Gallery, the sequence of large photographs and texts examines the nature of imaging a significant site and the methods of investing it …

Mapping change at the Chennai Photo Biennale
3 years, 2 months ago

Mapping change at the Chennai Photo Biennale

Live Mint  

There is this stunning image by Mohini Chandra of what seems like an old worn-out bag or container. Curated by Arko Datto, Bhooma Padmanabhan, Baoz Levin and Kerstin Meincke, the event looks at “creating awareness about the mind-churning social, environmental and technological exigencies of life.” Titled ‘Maps of Disquiet’, the biennale features physical exhibitions, digital screenings, workshops, artist talks and …

Chennai Photo Biennale announces the theme for its third edition in 2021
4 years, 3 months ago

Chennai Photo Biennale announces the theme for its third edition in 2021

The Hindu  

As with every live event, the pandemic had rained on Chennai Photo Biennale’s plans for its third edition too, which was scheduled to be held this month. At a virtual webinar held on December 9, Chennai Photo Biennale Foundation joined hands with the four-member curatorial team of the third edition to announce the first list of artists and theme. Maps …

Bengaluru’s Museum of Art & Photography goes virtual
4 years, 3 months ago

Bengaluru’s Museum of Art & Photography goes virtual

The Hindu  

The pandemic may have pushed Bengaluru’s Museum of Art & Photography’s plans to house itself in a state-of-the-art facility to 2021, but it has started welcoming audiences virtually. “Our aim with the digital museum is to actively work towards captivating new audiences,” says founder-trustee Abhishek Poddar. For example, a collaboration with The British Museum in London pairs Nainsukh’s 18th century …

Tracing Chennai’s cinema history through banners, posters and cutouts
4 years, 7 months ago

Tracing Chennai’s cinema history through banners, posters and cutouts

The Hindu  

Back in his school days, filmmaker Rajiv Menon would pass through Chennai very often — his father was a naval officer and the family lived in Visakhapatnam at the time. “After having lunch and some ice cream, we would ride around the city.” These are Menon’s earliest brushes with Kollywood’s important, albeit, fading culture of cutouts, banners and posters that …

Now in the heart of Bengaluru, it's Namma Guggenheim'
7 years, 7 months ago

Now in the heart of Bengaluru, it's Namma Guggenheim'

Deccan Chronicle  

Come 2020, Kasturba Road will be home to the Museum of Art and Photography, a state-of-the-art cultural hub. Today, the business magnate and founder at Tasveer, is one of India’s most respected art collectors and he stands now on the brink of creating history here in Bengaluru with MAP, the Museum of Art and Photography. Spread out over 3,000 sqm, …

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