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‘Ghost’ of Bose at Aicon Gallery London

The maverick artist Bose Krishnamachari will present his most ambitious solo show of the year titled ‘Ghost’ at the Aicon Gallery, London from 9th July to 18th August 2008. In this project he deals with his concerns over the contemporary museum discourse. He would present five architectural models of possible future museums, which he would like to call as the ‘museums of mind’. Along with this he would present the working model of his own museum coming up soon in Aluva, Kerala.

‘Pet Shop’ of Chintan Upadhyay at Ashish Balram Nagpal Gallery

A new set of works titled ‘Pet Shop’ by the noted artists Chintan Upadhyay will be presented at the Ashish Balram Nagpal Gallery, Mumbai from 18th July on wards. The show will be on for a month. The works featuring in the show had been traveling in Taiwan and had received a lot of critical acclamation.

‘Hide and Seek’ at Gallery OED, Kochi

‘Hide and Seek’, a group show curated by art historian Kavita Balakrishnan will be opened on 12th July 2008 at Gallery OED. Ten young artists from various parts of India would present their works in this show. The show will be on till 25th July 2008.

Alternative Space@Gallery OED

Kochi based Gallery OED starts a space for alternative art production and presentation from August 2008 onwards. The first project will be presented by the noted artist Rajan M Krishnan. He would present a version of his recently held ambitious solo show ‘Ore’. In this new version Rajan will be presenting a new video and a documentation of his making of Ore, along with paintings and drawings specially made in and for the alternative space. “The space will be given to young, vibrant and daring artists who want to do experimental works,” said Dilip Narayanan, the Director of Gallery OED.

India Art Summit, 2008 at Pragati Maidan
India Art Summit™, India’s first collaborative platform for the Arts. It is aimed at encouraging both international and regional involvement with Indian art and providing a place for various stakeholders of the art industry to interact with each other.
To be held from the 22nd to the 24th of August 2008 in New Delhi, India Art Summit™ 2008 will see participation from galleries, art funds, auction houses, art insurance companies & other support businesses from India and overseas. Alongside the fair, there will be an Art Forum where key issues pertaining to the development and business of art will be discussed. These sessions have been designed to give foremost importance to the development of art support systems, understanding the sensibilities of artists & concerns arising from the commercialization of art. The forum will be addressed by renowned Indian & International speakers. Event is organised by the Hanmer & Partners Communications Pvt. Ltd.

Shilpa Gupta at Bodhi Berlin

Bodhi Berlin and Galerie Volker Diehl present the first monograph exhibition in Germany of the eminent media artist, Shilpa Gupta. Both galleries have collaborated with the artist to allow both Berliners and an international audience further access to her particular use of regional and political geography in which she tackles issues that include notions of borders within and in-between media, religion and nations. The show was inaugurated on 13th June 2008. And will be on view till 02nd August 2008.

Nitin Mukul at the Guild Gallery, New York

Opening on June 19, 2008, The Guild, NY, presents "I Woke Up Somewhere Else," an exhibition of paintings by New Delhi-based artist Nitin Mukul, whose work negotiates the tense and productive spaces between geographies, visual cultures and identities.

Mukul paints with the sensibility of a postcolonial transplant, combining pop cultural references from India's media-saturated visual environment with biological structures, ritual images and architecture. New Delhi's urban landscape figures strongly in these paintings, a city where protean slippage is the norm: between the man-made and the natural, between the legal, semi-legal and illegal, between migrants and residents. The show will be on till 17th July 2008.

Sakshi, Mumbai presents ‘Link’

Sakshi Gallery presents Link, a choice of cutting-edge contemporary works by a host of formidable artists, from 24th June to 15th July, 2008.

This show is marked by the presence of works by Reji Arakkal, Sunil Gawde, Subodh Gupta, Zarina Hashmi, Anish Kapoor, Riyas Komu, Shibu Natesan, Sumedh Rajendran, Mithu Sen, Valay Shende, and Chintan Upadhyay. Many of the pieces made their debut on the international art scene at art fairs and have now come back home. Independent of solos, it is rare to see such a congregation of works that are at once comprehensive yet signatures of their creators.

Emerging Discourse Part I and II at Bodhi, New York

Bodhi, New York presents a two parts show titled Emerging Discourse. Curated by Shaheen Merali, this show is an enquiry into multiple and overlapping contemplations on the diaspora. Jaishree Abhichandani, Chila Kumari Burman, Sophie Ernst, Maryam Jafri, Karsh Kale, Vikkal Parikh and Luis Banuelos Arechiga, Aki Nawaz, Hetain Patel, Sara Rahbar and Tejal Shah are the participating artist. Part I of the show is between 27th June to 18th July 2008. Part II will be showcased between 25th July and 15th August 2008.