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Nothing is Solid
Jagannath PandaThrough his art, Jagannath Panda reconciles many of our most fundamental contradictions. The dichotomies of Nature/Culture, Urban/Rural, Traditional/Contemporary and Figuration/Abstraction find both expression and resolve within Panda's paintings, sculptures and... -
The Avid Gaze
Kiyomi TalaulicarThus far Kiyomi Talaulicar's pictorial quiet has found itself slap bang in the middle of abstraction. But with The Avid Gaze, one intends to relocate her works in the pacifist... -
The Way Home
Subodh GuptaSubodh understands that art has the capacity to compress a lifetime's experience, intellectual discourse, even aesthetic exploration and abstract it into a single object or set of objects. He effortlessly... -
Select Works 1971 – 2006
Gieve PatelThese select works cover a span of about thirty years, from the nineteen seventies to the turn of the century. Each work represents an aspect of my thinking that will... -
Piercing Brightness
Shezad DawoodPiercing Brightness is the first feature film to be developed as part of the project. A science fiction film, it is ostensibly the story of a secret cabal of extraterrestrial... -
Silent Speech
M.ShanthamaniSince its inception M.Shanthamani's work researches the paradox of unity in dislocation. She is perennially preoccupied with the objectification of the female body. 'What am I, when men and medical... -
Watercolours; A Broader Spectrum- I
Madhvi Parekh, Amit Ambalal, Jogen Chowdhury, Jayashree Chakravarty, Arpita SinghThis group show, a fitting occasion to usher in the summer season, marks the first chapter of Gallery Chemould's year long programme of 4 exhibitions, each comprising 5 artists. Accordingly,... -
Bombay Mix
Ketaki ShethBombay Mix did not start as a project to document the city. It evolved more like a scrapbook of photographs drawn from reams of contact sheets - those minature reproductions... -
A Certain Grace
Ketaki ShethKetaki Sheth is one of India's leading contemporary photographers. She won the Sanskriti Award for Indian Photography Award in 1992 and the Higashikawa Award 2006 in Japan for best foreign... -
Photo Studio
Ketaki ShethPhoto Studio came to me at a time when photography is everywhere and everyone is making images. The photographer has to toil to get it right. As Robert Adams said... -
Paintings (1997-2000)
Gieve PatelGieve Patel is not one of those painters who evade the grief, violence and affliction of their society by resorting to elaborate symbolism. Over the years, he has chosen to... -
The Incarnate Particularity of Forms
Gieve PatelWhile the compressed or oblique narrative is one of Patel's primary inspirations, I would hazard the view that the crux of his work is the attempted reconcilation of a sensuously... -
Watercolours; A Broader Spectrum- III
Bhupen Khakhar, Gulammohammed Sheikh, Nalini Malani, Nilima Sheikh, Ranbir Kaleka, Timothy HymanThis is the third in a series of watercolour exhibitions being organised by Gallery Chemould. -
Lisping Revelation
AmbadasThere is no beginning and no end to an Ambadas painting, no particular point of departure and no particular point of arrival, the canvas invoking the internal flux of the... -
Meandering Warp: Variations On a theme
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Bloodlines
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Medeaprojekt
Nalini MalaniThe Medea project presents an example of a multi-layered interpretative activity - a Greek myth which is already commonly known among the Western educated is re-told with a political edge... -
Nalini Malini
Irish Museum of Modern ArtPainting and drawing have remained fundamental to Malani's practice, but her work has expanded naturally into the multimedia realm, and even to experimental theatre. This book accompanies a comprehensive exhibition... -
Spitting the Other
Nalini MalaniNalini Malani (1946) is one of the most influential contemporary artists from India. Since the nineteen-seventies, she has been visualizing her emphatically feminine stance in a country torn between the... -
Watercolours: A Broader Spectrum IV
Navjot Altaf, Vasudevan Akkitham, Suresh B.V., Indrapramit RoyThis suite of watercolours is marked by a sketchy tentativeness; these paintings act as a keys, signalling future maps that have not yet been plotted. It is as though these... -
How Perfect Perfection Can Be
Navjot AltafThese works are clearly nourished by the traditions of engineering and architectural drawing. At one level, Navjot wishes to convey the sheer visual pleasure of retracing parts of these perfectly... -
Exhibition of Oil Pastels
Paramjit SinghToday in art when the evolution of figurative languages address itself more and more directly to political and social issues Paramjit Singh's work stands apart - independent from daily events... -
Rivers of Blood
Paula SenguptaThis is a work then about fish and food and the violations of geography by political history. It attempts to understand, through the complicit and resistant practices of cooking and... -
An Exhibition of Paintings and Watercolours
Prabhakar BarweEvery component of a painting, be it form or colour, in a way gets transformed into space. That is to say that they (the components) get synthesized with the homogenous... -
Anthology 1980-90
RazaThus Raza has grown into a universal creator whose roots lie deep in his own soil but whose antennae are cosmic. He heralds the plastic artists of the 21st century... -
Avartan
Raza'Avartan' is a musical term to denote one cycle of tala pattern. Raza's paintings have a preoccupation with circular movement and their repeated rhythmic sequence make up a cosmic avartan,... -
Metamorphosis
RazaSayed Haider Raza was born in 1922, in Babaria, Madhya Pradesh, India. He studied painting at the Nagpur School of Art and the Sir J.J. School of Art, Bombay. Founder... -
The Art Critic
Richard BartholomewIn Richard Bartholomew's life, photography was integral to the process by which 'the theatre of the mind' became 'the house of the eye'. And in this 'house', the life of... -
Recent Works
Simeen OshidarSimeen Oshidar's magniloquent community of flowers re-configures the vegan world in a hyperbolic poetic space by pulling into view, the anatomy and metaphyisics of organisms in the bold and baroque... -
Manogathe
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Cities, Countries and Borders
ZarinaSplintered, fractured maps, diagrams, designs, yantra, schematic, angular, black and white. Zarina describes a world in her prints that is unpeopled yet it is a world that resonates with the... -
Go Away Closer
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In Search of Lyricism
Kiyomi TalaulicarTo give structure to the immediacy of feeling is a long-drawn out dialogue with the self, Kiyomi, continues to drive her thoughts towards those star-points of sensation, bringing into being,... -
New Ways of Colour Printmaking
Krishna ReddyHere is a straightforward, comprehensive reference on the art of colour printmaking created by Krishna Reddy, one of the world's greatest and most innovative printmaker. This book doesn't expect the... -
At Home in the World
Gulammohammed SheikhGulammohammed Sheikh has played a pioneering role in contemperary Indian art's engagement with hybridity and a plural inheritance. At Home in the World presents the first comprehensive study of the...
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