NIV Art Centre to Show My Story on February 15, 2010
 
New Delhi: NIV Art Centre with its expansive display space is to begin a new group show featuring women artists titled My Story from February 15, 2010.

The artists featuring in this exhibition are Bini Roy, Lakshmi Reddy, Kirti Chandak, Ritu Kamath, Sajitha R Shankhar, Ruchika W Singh, Padma Reddy, Benitha Perciyal and Mosmi.

The gallery is located in 210, Neb Sarai in south Delhi near IGNOU campus.

FICA announces result of Research Fellowship 2009
 
New Delhi: FICA is delighted to announce the recipient of the Research Fellowship 2009 is Suruchi Khubchandani. Suruchi’s paper titled Polemics of Performance Art was selected by a collaborative jury between the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University and FICA.  Jury members included Dr. Parul Dave Mukherjee, Dean of the School of Arts and Aesthetics; Dr. Kavita Singh, Associate Professor at the School of Arts and Aesthetics; and Radhika Chopra, Director of FICA.  The FICA Research Fellowship aims to support researchers and writers working within the realm of Modern and Contemporary Indian Visual Arts.
 
Suruchi writes “Performance art is emerging with manifold forces in India where the body of the artist with its various gesticulations becomes material as well as the work of art. [My] attempt would be to analyze the performative process and explore the possibilities of an alternative art practice in India.”  Jury members Dr. Mukherjee and Dr. Singh both noted that Suruchi’s submission was the most convincing proposal presented among the applicants with a focus on a new area of contemporary India art with limited documentation. 
 
Suruchi Khubchandani, age 23, has a BA in Journalism from Delhi University, Kamla Nehru College, and a MVA in Art History and Aesthetics, Art Criticism from M.S. University of Baroda.  She is an art writer and curator living in New Delhi.

Daughter of the Sea …. Opens on February 5, 2010

New Delhi: A motorcycle is an unlikely addition to an artist’s equipment, but then Idris Ahmed is an artist with a difference. Using his bike and his camera to travel remote landscapes and mindscapes, Idris’ photography takes you to a new plane. The playful joie de vivre of children on the snow covered slopes of Spiti, the calm amid the cacophony of the Kumbh, the brooding stillness of majestic mountains, the sheer power of stallions in full gallop, Idris’ camera brings us many stories...and if you look carefully enough, stories within stories. Each of Idris’ pictures is a personal paean to the spirit of freedom, harmony and to the power of life, lived in high places, remote, yet all too familiar, distant, yet at once banal.

This Delhi-based travel photographer will be exhibiting a series of selected photographs titled Daughter of the Sea…on Spiti at Gallerie Romain Rolland, Alliance Française, Delhi from February 5-10, 2010.

Ravikumar Kashi’s Show of Photographic Works at Gallery Sumukha

Bengaluru: Begaluru-based artist Ravikumar Kashi’s latest show, titled The Game, will open in Gallery Sumukha, Bengaluru, on February 3, 2010 at 6.30 pm, and will continue till February 20, 2010. The Game is a set of 25 photographs, printed on archival paper, and a video.

Four years ago, Ravi embarked on a photographic project, juxtaposing various objects in his studio and photographing them in such a manner as to evoke multiple meaning s far beyond the sum total of their individual connotations. Noted art writer, poet and curator of international renown Ranjit Hoskote edited the body of works and compiled a set which best denotes Ravi’s oeuvre and has been presented as The Game. 

After exhibiting in Bangalore, the show will travel to Gallery Sumukha, Chennai in March and later in the year to Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai followed by an exhibition in Delhi.

Legacy: A - Vanguard  at Gallery Threshold, New Delhi
 
New Delhi: Gallery Threshold is presenting a group show – Legacy: A - Vanguard  – from January 29- February 21, 2010. The show curated by Girish Sahane will feature works by Prabhakar Barwe, Madhu Imartey, Prajakta Palav, Parag Tendal  and  Yashwant Deshmukh.
 
The contemporary art world is preoccupied with the subject of politics and with new media forms. While this is understandable in a world ruled by a 24/7 news cycle, it has unjustly overshadowed other ways of thinking, seeing and showing. ‘Legacy’ attempts to trace the influence and relevance of one painter through two subsequent generations. The painter in question, Prabhakar Barwe, graduated from JJ School of Art in 1959, and went on to establish himself as one of India’s leading artists. His meditative canvases are populated with objects brought into unlikely relationships with each other.

The artists who show alongside Barwe in ‘Legacy’, all JJ School alumni, attempt to reveal something essential about the objects they explore. Their work doesn’t shout out for attention, but quietly draws you into its force field and holds you there. None of them are derivative of Barwe, but there is an overlap of concerns that will hopefully make itself evident in the visual impact of the show.

The Empire Strikes Back at Saatchi Gallery

London: Saatchi Gallery is currently presenting a group show titled The Empire Strikes Back: Indian Art Today from January 29 - May 7, 2010.

The artists whose works are in this show are Jaishri Abichandani, Mansoor Ali, Kriti Arora, Huma Bhabha, Ajit Chauhan, Shezad Dawood, Atul Dodiya, Chitra Ganesh, Probir Gupta, Sakshi Gupta, Subodh Gupta, Tushar Joag, Jitish Kallat, Reena Saini Kallat, Bharti Kher, Rajan Krishnan, Huma Mulji, Pushpamala N, Yamini Nayar, Justin Ponmany, Rajesh Ram, Rashid Rana, T.V. Santhosh,  Schandra Singh, Tallur L.N., Hema Upadhyay and T. Venkanna.

Alexis Kersey, Selected Works at RL Fine Arts

New York: RL Fine Arts presents an exhibition of selected works of artist Alexis Kersey from January 28 to March 6. Born in Mysore, India but raised and educated in the United Kingdom, Alexis Kersey brings a particular unique viewpoint to that of the colonial past and cultural heritage of the British in India.

These works show Kersey putting into place his preoccupation with indentity both personal and cultural, ethnic and regional, particularly as it is posited towards India. In these works, later to come to fruition in his series of Company School Paintings, the artist has created a mythical race of beings, such as one could imagine as being born anew with Post Independence India, that is responsive and responding to the global pressures of the contemporary world.

Kersey trained with the billboard and signboard painters in South India, and brings this aesthetic and style to his works: the color, the exaggeration, the brassy advertising posture, in order to show his modern mythological race caught in a cultural in between. Utilizing the kitsch vocabulary of calendar art and its depiction of the pantheon of deities, visible throughout India, one is struck by the amazingly vibrant synthesis of all these elements into a unique voice of surreal strangeness. These happy beings, originating as characters in educational manuals, are happily trying to function in their new roles as part of a modern global India.

Art Alive Gallery Presents Nandita Chaudhuri’s Solo Show

New Delhi: Art Alive Gallery is currently presenting London-based artist Nandita Chaudhuri’s exhibition of paintings, sculptures and installations titled Retinal Residue at the Visual Arts Gallery, New Delhi.

Nandita, who calls the show, Retinal Residue as “…..an amalgamation of large instinctive works rather than a studied methodology.”, believes that it is a central concern which binds a body of works together rather than any stylistic orientations. In Nandita’s works, especially in her drawings of the female nude there is a strong feminist slant, which departs from any aspects of the sensual towards that of a raw, primordial force. She moves away from any formal fixations to an aggressive application of paint leaving her works open ended with no previously thought out definitive form. In addition, the show will also feature some of her sculptures in which she extends the concerns reflected in her paintings. They comprise of soldered together parts of kitchen utensils and discarded bicycle parts.

Of the works featured in the exhibit, there are two installations comprising of paintings, which draws their influences from the miniature format. In one of them, small kitsch-like images of gods and goddesses are found juxtaposed alongside found objects such as pieces of colored glass. With these works Nandita seeks to subvert the commoditization of religious deities, which the kitsch and the popular art movements had heralded – by employing those very tools of representation. She further emphasizes this reversal with the bright reddish-orange of the background, so reminiscent of the saffron color used for deities at the roadside shrines.

The show concludes on January 31, 2010.

Kiran Nadar Museum of Art Open Doors

Noida: Smt Ambika Soni, Hon’ble Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting, inaugurated the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (www.KNMA.in), and its inaugural exhibition Open Doors in Noida on January 23, 2010.

Expected to be a first of its kind, the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art is envisioned to encompass the diverse range of modern and contemporary Indian art. Its vision is based on the premise that art museums today are not merely sites of art display but act as a vital platform that initiate us into experiencing art, culture and ourselves. The primary thought is to inspire interest in art by sharing this passionately assembled collection with diverse Indian and global audiences, starting with the 65,000 strong HCL family, their families and communities around them, enriching the employees’ creativity and overall work experience.

Kiran Nadar, Chairperson, KNMA said, “Making a modest beginning with this social responsibility, KNMA’s primary goal is to share this private art collection and bring visibility and appreciation to modern & contemporary Indian art, presenting it meaningfully to the art viewing public and the growing HCL community in India and the world.”

The KNMA’s inaugural exhibition is aptly titled Open Doors and includes modern and contemporary masterpieces from the Nadar collection, keeping in mind their rarity and relevance. The best of the modern and the contemporaries are juxtaposed to initiate unpredictable dialogue and a critical appreciation between them. Presently exhibited in a 15,000 sq.ft. area, the displayed artworks will eventually be housed in a 80,000 sq ft landmark building specially created for the purpose.

Roobina Karode, Director, KNMA further added, “The private art museum is a recent phenomenon in India and the KNMA will take up the challenges, both anticipated and unpredicted, in order to turn its vision into a reality. The potential of such a space and opportunity will be fully explored to make this a globally active Museum that would attempt to bring the rich Indian art heritage its deserved acclaim”.

The Kiran Nadar Museum of Art one of the Shiv Nadar Foundation’s philanthropic, not-for-profit ventures aimed at public good. The Museum would look to enthrall the guests, relax the employees, expand viewership, hosting well curated shows and acquiring seminal works while closing the gaps in the collection. The Museum houses some of the most famous works of Raja Ravi Verma, F N Souza, M F Husain, V S Gaitonde, Tyeb Mehta, Akbar Padamsee, Arpita Singh and Jogen Chowdhury and younger contemporaries such as Subodh Gupta, Atul Dodiya, N S Harsha and
G R Iranna.

Saffronart Presents a Major Retrospective of Krishen Khanna ‘s Works

New Delhi: Saffronart iscurrently hosting a major retrospective of the work of Krishen Khanna, one of India’s most prominent and critically acclaimed modern artists in Lalit Kala Akademi, Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi. The exhibition opened on January 22 and will be on view till February 5, 2010.
 
The exhibition features paintings and drawings which trace the arc of a creative career that has spanned several decades, and also charts the evolution of the Indian nation and its people through important events like the partition of the subcontinent. Drawn from important collections all around India, including the artist’s own, this two week exhibition reflects Krishen Khanna’s dynamic oeuvre through some of his most significant early works as well as a group of recent paintings.

Ribbed Routes at The Guild, Mumbai

Mumbai: The Guild Art Gallery is presenting Ribbed Routes, a solo exhibition of recent works by G.R. Iranna at The Guild on January 22, 2010.  

“There are some pressing issues of our times that require our address. Questions of peace and the prevalence of violence as a form of dissent, any dissent, press on our consciousness and demand a response. The sculptural works by Iranna can be seen as a concerted and concentrated address of what should be society’s goal in the coming years, to work towards peace and harmonious coexistence.  Iranna’s works are philosophical reflections, revolving around the interactions and explorations of a man’s inner world with the existential issues of today. Through his works he comments on human civilizational growth and its intrinsic follies consisting of aggression and ideological indoctrinations, violently inflicted upon human beings in the name of territorial growth. Iranna’s intention is to capture the trauma of human kind. His body of work is about despair but it is also about hope both nestled together in Pandora’s Box. “
(Excerpt from an essay by Deeksha Nath)

Born 1970 in Karnataka, Iranna obtained M.F.A. from Delhi College of Art. He has had several solo shows the latest being ‘Birth of Blindness’, The Stainless Gallery, New Delhi and Aicon Gallery, London and New York in 2008 and The Dance on the horse, Berkley Square Galllery, London in 2007. He has widely participated in many significant group exhibitions and workshops in India and abroad, including the India Art Summit, New Delhi, India (2009), Cultura Popular India y mas alla, la presidenta de la comunidad de Madrid Museum, curated by Shaheen Merali (2009), MiArt Fair 08, Milan, Italy(2008), Arad Biennale, Romania(2005),  among others. Iranna is a recipient of National Academy award in 1997 and the M.F.Husain and Ram Kumar award. G.R Iranna has been nominated from India for the ABPF Signature Art Prize 08, Singapore Museum.

Sakshi Gallery revisits its ‘Roots’ in Chennai

Chennai: Sakshi Gallery crosses yet another milestone as it successfully strides into its 25th year in 2010. It will be a year marked with celebrations, kick started by Roots, an exhibition of select works of modern and contemporary Indian art held at The Park, Chennai, the place where Sakshi’s foundation was laid. The exhibition was held From January 22-24, 2010

Over the last 25 years, Sakshi has moved from strength to strength and has established itself as one of the premier galleries in India. It also set foot in Taiwan earlier this year, establishing a full fledged gallery in Taipei. With this exhibition, Sakshi paid homage to the city of Chennai, where its journey began. The exhibition showcased the width of Indian practice today in a variety of media, and examine how rooted the artists still are to where they are from.

With an endeavor to be introspective of the past and prospective about the future, Roots featurde some of the best works from the gallery collection and special loans. Numerous artists who have participated in Sakshi’s programs over the years, such as Nalini Malani, Sudhir Patwardhan, Ravinder Reddy, Rekha Rodwittiya, Sunil Gawde, N.S. Harsha, Riyas Komu and Shilpa Gupta as well as some of the upcoming ones such as Manjunath Kamath, Rakhi Peswani, Remen Chopra, Paula Sengupta and Atmaja featured in this exhibition. Sakshi Gallery also presented to the Chennai public, select works by acclaimed international artists such as El Anatsui and Julian Opie.

This exhibition is as a precursor to Sakshi’s 25th Anniversary Celebration of Creativity wherein a special series of programs will be held through the year. The Celebration of Creativity aims to blend the celebratory with the cultural. Though these festivities, Sakshi hopes to encourage the intermingling of the old and the new and consequently capturing the transition over the years.

Hemali Bhuta’s The Hangover of Agarlum  at Project 88
 
Mumbai: Hemali Bhuta’s solo exhibition The Hangover of Agarlum at Project 88 is on from January 18, 2010.

Project 88 serves as one of the inspirations for The Hangover of Agarlum in which Hemali Bhuta has transformed the strong impression and identity of the exhibition space into a tangible experience. Hemali draws on her own experiences, memories and understanding of various elements to create her works; they articulate issues of belonging, security, individuality and change. She aims to investigate the transitory spaces of restlessness between these issues and also to find a way to overcome them.
The perfect hangover from the imperfect “agarlum” (a term coined by the artist) is a state of suspension, of unease and agitation shaped from juggling the gaining agarbatti and the losing alum. Like most hangovers, which occur due to excess of artificial stimulants and lay one in a state of semi consciousness; this particular hangover is caused by life itself, its experiences, hopes and disappointments. 

Hemali deliberately understates her concerns by adopting a very minimalist approach thereby forcing the viewer to scratch beneath the surface and understand the true core of her work. 

The project itself can be divided into two sections, Stepping Down and The Growing. Stepping Down is a combination of smaller projects; which deal with metamorphosis, of finding the different levels and roles that one is made to adapt and execute. The work is primarily made of two materials – wax and alum that have very different properties but at the same time are versatile and can be modified in various ways. Alum purifies water while undergoing a change in its own composition while wax, can be molded in various ways. The Growing is a series of prints that are a documentation of Hemali’s response to her own installation with the same title. The work deals with manipulating reality and concealment; of the different acts one goes through not to expose one's true self in society. (Amruta Nemivant)

The exhibition is on view till February 13, 2010.

Chemould Prescott Road Shows Madhvi Subrahmanian’s Organic/abstract sculptures

Mumbai: Chemould Prescott Road is currently exhibiting Madhvi Subrahmanian’s
Organic/abstract sculptures and installations in ceramics from January 18 - February 13, 2010.

Having lived in three continents and in four countries in a span of 20 years, Madhvi Subrahmanian belongs to a world where cultural identities are blurred. Her work has been as inspired and altered by the challenges of new opportunities as by the limitations brought by new circumstances.

Other than migratory situations, her own personal experiences have also informed her work. As a mother, fertility and its varied references have influenced her greatly. Madhvi made a cast of her pregnant belly to mark a moment of time in her life. She uses the mould as a vessel to capture the essence of time and change. Incubation, growth and movement find repeated expression in her works.

Madhvi Subrahmanian’s recent works made at a residency in Pondicherry and in her studio in Singapore are derived from natural forms such as the anthill and the seedpod. They evoke a world of votive sculptures that metaphorically narrate the story of her growth and passage. Flashing black and white checkered markings on tamarind trees in Tamil Nadu find their way into her forms, transforming simple geometrics and the graphic notations of a “road language” into mysterious primordial expressions.

The idiom of the ubiquitous road and its enigmatic imagery superimposed on Madhvi’s primitive forms symbolically link her migratory experiences and define her interests and her work. The forms become a meeting place for the primal with the contemporary, the geometric with the organic and the ephemeral with the everlasting.

Anju Dodiya’s solo exhibition Necklace of Echoes at Vadehra At Gallery, New Delhi

New Delhi: Vadehra Art Gallery is currently hosting eminent artist Anju Dodiya’s solo exhibition – Necklace of Echoes – in their Okhla gallery in New Delhi (January 18 – February 20, 2010).

Noted art writer Nancy Adajania writes: “Anju Dodiya’s Necklace of Echoes is a suite of self portraits cast in the mode of intense suffering. Beneath the intricate paraphernalia of art-historical and autobiographical citations that have come to be associated with her work. Dodiya reflects two basic and opposite conditions in all her paintings: selfhood wounded, and selfhood armoured against hurt. In the present series, she keeps her citationality to a minimum, allowing the true theme of her work to emerge: the artist’s subjectivity, trapped by its own constructs, aching for release. These paintings evoke the melancholia of a thumri singer, with blood clotting into artifacts and song reverberating with sound of shattering glass.

Dodiya meditates here on the sinister versatility of the necklace, which has recurred in her art as an ambivalent motif. It connotes adornment, honour and talismanic value. Equally, it signals greed, humiliation and death. The necklace is both armour and noose, an abacus of sin dragging the wearer down to perdition. The poisons of avarice and aggression are released through a ritual bloodletting in Falling Glass, with the artist’s doppelganger restraining her with a neck-lock.

The painting that epitomizes this suite is Finger Necklace, named after the tragic hero of the Buddhist parable of Angulimala, an aristocrat’s son who was made to believe that he would achieve divinity if he killed a thousand people and wore a necklace made from their fingers. In Dodiya’s version, Angulimala could be an artist making an inventory of all the little suicides involved in sending art-works into the world, the self mortgaged against fame. Or he could be a contemporary terrorist, lured with the promise of paradise into killing innocent people. Dodiya, masquerading as Angulimala, points us towards what Seamus Heaney calls ‘self-forgetfulness’, the ability to pour one’s personal anguish into the larger suffering of humankind, so achieving a momentary transcendence.”

Devi Art Foundation Showcasings Works by  45 Pakistani Artists
 
Gurgaon: Devi Art Foundation is currently presenting an exhibition, Resemble Reassemble curated by Rashid Rana from January 17, 2010 at Devi Art Foundation, Sirpur House, Plot no. 39, Sector 44, Behind Epicentre (Apparel House) Gurgaon. Artists Ehsan Ul Haq, Iqra Tanveer, Imran Ahmad Khan, Risham Syed and Quddus Mirza were present during the opening of the show..

The exhibition brings together the works of forty-five Pakistani contemporary artists from the Lekha and Anupam Poddar Collection namely Abdullah M.I. Syed, Adeela Suleman, Ahsan Jamal, Aisha Khalid, Ali Raza, Amber Hammad, Anwar Saeed, Asma Mundrawala, Attiya Shaukat, Ayaz Jokhio, Ayesha Zulfiqar, Bani Abidi, Ehasan ul Haq, Fahd Burki, Farida Batool, Ferwa Ibrahim, Hamra Abbas, Huma Mulji, Huria Khan, Imran Ahmad Khan, Imran Mudassar, Imran Qureshi, Iqra Tanveer, Ismet Khawaja, Jamil Baloch, Mariam Ibraaz, Masooma Syed, Mahbub Shah, Mehr Javed, Mehreen Murtaza, Mahreen Asif Zuberi, Mohammad Ali Talpur, Muhammad Zeeshan, Naiza H Khan, Nazia Malik, Noor Ali Chagani, Nusra Laitf Qureshi, Rabbya Nasser, Raju G. C, Risham Syed, Roohi Ahmed, Saira Wasim, Sajjad Ahmed, Shalalae Jamil and Unum Babar.

The Devi Art Foundation is one of the first not-for-profit spaces dedicated to showcasing contemporary art from the Indian Subcontinent. It has been established to facilitate the viewership of creative expression and artistic practice that exist in the region. It is envisioned as a space that will enable wider audiences to interact with cutting edge and experimental artworks.

The exhibition is on until May 10, 2010.

Dayanita Singh’s Dream Villa at Nature Morte, New Delhi

New Delhi: Nature Morte is currently hosting an exhibition of new color photographs by the prominent photographer Dayanita Singh (January 15-February 13, 2010). Premiered at the Frith Street Gallery in London in November 2008, the body of work is entitled Dream Villa. The color photographs explore how the night transforms what seems ordinary by day into something mysterious and magical. These lush images are saturated with intense color and present a landscape which exists as much in the artist's imagination as in the real world. Singh travels to many different cities to find her images, never knowing where Dream Villa or its inhabitants will present themselves. The empty streets, the arrangements of neon lights and the silent façades have an unsettling and at times sinister atmosphere, this is a place where nothing is quite as it seems – it comes into being at night, when all is lit by artificial light and the moon is just ornamentation.

A major retrospective of  Singh’s photographs will open at the Mapfre Foundation in Madrid on January 19, 2010, accompanied by a book to be co-published with Penguin India.

Art exhibition at the Osmosis Art Gallery

Mumbai: The Osmosis gallery presents I-SO-LATEd  which features works by Muktinath Mondal and Krupa S Makhija from January 15 to February 5, 2010. Curator Sonal Motla has organized the exhibition.

Muktinath Mandal: Born in 1982, Muktinath Mandal holds a  BFA from Indira Kala Sangeet Viswa Vidyalaya, Chhattisgarh and also received  M.F.A. from  University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad. Muktinath has participated in several shows in India – including  Kolkata, Mumbai, Nagpur,
Bhopal, Chennai and Hyderabad. Muktinath received Merit scholarships from the University of Hyderabad and has also been awarded for best painting in college exhibition. Muktinath lives and work in Vadodara

Artist Statement: My works emerge as a personal response to my immediate environment, the diversity of cultures and ecological landscapes around me. These definitely enrich the range of representation and imagery in my work.  In my recent works I , mainly focusing on  these objects, like the hand-held lantern, tube well, rice flatter, pump machines, clay made vessels, hand pulled rickshaw and some other which are mainly used by rural people- potters, carpenters, iron-smith, fishermen, milkmen, boatmen, weavers, farmers and rickshaw-pullers, inside some exotic plants as I feel that these are abandoned , desolated , neglected. In my painting these objects are also used metaphorically to represent the excommunicated that are still considered to be in ‘dark age’, desolate and helpless and struggling for survival.

Krupa Makhija:  On Completing her MFA in painting from Faculty of Fine Arts, M. S. University, Baroda in 2007, Krupa Makhija has gone on to win several awards in the use of digital prints and serigraphy combined with oil and acrylic paint.Makhija constantly experiments with forms and mediums on paper and canvas alike. 'Form ' is important to the 'object',which is a 'curious ' element in her art. The artist refers to it as her 'metaphoric' language. It not only acts as a structure but is also used as visual vocabulary for artistic language. Her artistic endeavour is to observer the nuances of symbolic language in the genre of still life.She lives and works in Baroda.

Artist Statement: Object’ or ‘form’ in still-life is not a simple component that caters the need of  ‘formalism’. The ‘object’ is a curious element for me and it acts not only as a structure but is also used as visual vocabulary for artistic language. The objects used  are mostly abandoned, rusted and rejected  by the people. They have undergone a lot of ‘transformation’. In some works they appear as an ‘industrial landscape’ and in some works they are accompanied by the ‘abstract urban space’. In my recent series of works of “I-so-lated” the objects inter-se are in ‘dialogue’ or ‘monologue’ or seen as if conferencing with each other. They appear in company having been taken out of isolation.

Bombay Art Gallery Presents New Myths by Waswo X. Waswo 

Mumbai: Bombay Art Gallery is currently exhibiting New Myths (First Incarnation) by Waswo X. Waswo  (January 12 – February 7, 2010).

Waswo X. Waswo showcases the premiere of his series New Myths...a reinvention of tradition with a modern-day twist. Part spoof on “calendar art”, and part heartfelt introspection on the artist’s approach to values and belief, New Myths manages to cover a lot of ground. All of the photographs in this exhibition were created at Waswo’s studio in Udaipur, Rajasthan. They are archivally printed on imported Hahnemuehle Fine Art Paper, and hand-coloured by the artist's assistants: Rajesh Soni, R. Vijay, and Shankar Kumawat. 

Anant Art Gallery Presents Small Things by Amritah Sen

New Delhi: Anant Art Gallery is currently showing recent works by Kolkata-based artist Amritah Sen.

About her work, the artist says: “It is amazing to discover how the same usual things look different as the perspective changes. It is like your mind traveling far and wide, making extensive trips inside and finding out details, moments and feelings that are long forgotten.

I was surprised to discover how small, ignorable and unimportant facts live inside us without our knowledge. Chapters we think we have closed long back, issues we have completed to deal with – hide themselves deep somewhere inside our minds and continue to breathe. All that they do, they peep up once in a while to remind us that, as life expands friends go, distant people come close, and relationships change. With them it is easier to sustain when things go wrong. With them it is easier to walk even though parts of us are left behind at different junctures. And by doing them we grow up even faster than we understand that we have!

All my recent works are thus, a sort of reminiscence or looking back. It is not a regular affair, but at times your mind detaches itself and climbs up a high point to get a neutral view – and may be this is one time when it is happening with me.

It is like counting and assessing once again whatever is left halfway in the due course. Life, no matter how simple or even dull, never stops to amaze me, and this time it told me, journey never ends.

In most of my recent works, jumbled up roads, unfinished tasks and legs that did not reach destination can be often seen.”

The show which started on Jan 12, 2010 will be on view till February 2, 2010.