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‘Painting Is Dead ! Long Live the Painting !’ – Part II
In this second part of the query into the relevance of Painting ... more »
The Mumbai-based contemporary Indian artist Sudharshan Shetty discusses ‘History of Loss,’ one of his major works, an installation in plexiglass, aluminium and steel, featuring aluminium replicas of 42 crashed toy cars displayed in vitrines on top of each other to resemble a wall. The work is on display at the
(Hailing from Thodupuzha in Idukki district of Kerala, Atmaja Manidas did BFA (Painting) from Govt. College of Fine Arts, Thiruvananthapuram and MFA (Painting) from S.N.School, Central University, Hyderabad. She has participated in a couple of group exhibitions including ‘Her Work Is Never Done,’ (Gallery BMB / 2010) and ‘Roots,’ Sakshi Gallery Annual Group Show (2010). She is curren ... more »
What bothers us?
Oindrilla Maity Surai
There is a vast difference. We have accepted it now. There is an unbridgeable gap between the art practice of the Eastern zone and the rest of the country. We can see it by the ratio of artists represented in the art magazines; books on art and even by gallerists who belong to the Eastern zone and yet who lose confidence in mounting shows with artists solely from this section of the country. Worse still is the fact that artists of the Eastern zone have lost faith in themselves when it comes to representing themselves in the national circuit.
Art ECG
Anupa Mehta feels the pulse of the art world as it gets set for the new season.
In a recent article written in Prospect magazine (http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/2010/05/the-dustbin-of-art-history/), the writer states: “The shininess of art today – the commercialism of contemporary artists, the celebratory tone and mass production of work – are legitimated by curator-critics as a reaction against the dryly intellectual years of conceptualism, when art was a scribble on a piece of graph paper. But what a small and conservati more »
