PIN POSTER : Gallery of the NGMA (Mumbai) opening 11 April 2016.

We are delighted to announce Prabhakar Pachpute's first institutional solo exhibition to open at the National Gallery of Modern Art (Mumbai) on 11 April 2016. The exhibition consists of site-specific sculptural interventions, shadow effects, and a wall-drawing around the perimeter of the dome gallery of the museum. Pachpute’s work is rooted in an investigation of mining labour and the way mining activity effects the natural and human landscape. Combining field research around the world and personal experience (Pachpute comes from a family of miners), with expressive and surreal imagery, the artist creates unexpected visions and encompassing installations. Land itself is under transformation, metamorphosing between different states of use and abandonment. The title, te tolanche dhaga navhate | no, it wasn’t the locust cloud is like an answer to a question, after the transformation of land. 

Discursive program supported by the Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation

The NGMA will host two discursive events on the occasion of the exhibition by Prabhakar Pachpute in the Dome Gallery of the NGMA (Mumbai) opening 11 April 2016. The events are hosted in the auditorium space of the NGMA and are free of charge and open to all.

From Caves to Multimedia. Art in architecture

Date: 1 April 2016
Hours: 4 pm - 9 pm 
To be held in the NGMA auditorium. 

Through a series of interviews, lectures and screenings, this event aims to introduce the work of Prabhakar Pachpute in a wider art-historical perspective, while, at the same time, inserting his practice within the idea of site-specificity and its relation to the museum and art institutions in general as sites of experiences.
Speakers: Dr. Manisha Patil (Professor of Art History and former dean, Sir JJ School of Art, curator, member of the NGMA Advisory Committee), Nalini Malani (artist, Mumbai) and Johan Pijnappel (curator and art historian specialised in video art, Mumbai), Dr. Manjiri Thakoor (art historian specialised in rock-cut temples, Deputy Curator NGMA, Mumbai) Luca Cerizza (art historian and curator, Berlin/Mumbai) Zasha Colah (curator, Mumbai/Berlin) and Prabhakar Pachpute (artist, Mumbai). 

From farmers to miners, from miners to farmers

Date: 11 April 2016
Hours: 4pm - 7pm, followed by the opening and reception
To be held in the NGMA auditorium and in the Dome gallery of the NGMA. 

Through an extensive and dynamic format including projected videos, sound-clips, and documents, the event will mix talks, panel discussions, performances, and screenings. The event aims to discuss various implications that are raised by the installation and in general, by the practice of artist Prabhakar Pachpute. In particular, the discussion will address one of the main topics of Pachpute’s practice, namely the transformation of the landscape and the economy in contemporary India and the working conditions of Indian miners.

Speakers: Amita Malkani,  (Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation, Mumbai), the u-ra-mi-li project (filmmakers, Chennai), Abhay Sardesai (art critic and editor Art India Magazine, Mumbai) with Prabhakar Pachpute (artist, Mumbai), Aruna Chandrasekhar (researcher, Bangalore), Navjot Altaf (artist, Mumbai), Sapta Ranga (a seven member poet-miner-farmer collective, Chandrapur). 

The talks and educational programs are supported by the Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation. Additional support in the talks and educational programs is provided by the Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai. Special thanks to Experimenter, Kolkata. 

For press and other enquiries please contact:

Zasha Colah, 0091 9819843334: zasha@clarkhouseinitiative.org

Luca Cerizza: info@luca-cerizza.com

NGMA: ngmamumbai.outreach@gmail.com

The Press Release and images of the artist's previous works can be found at: http://www.kapsul.org/view?kc=6dnlM9jY

Please find attached the full schedule of talks and press release.
National Gallery of Modern Art (Mumbai), Dome Gallery.
NGMA hours: daily 11 am - 6 pm, Mondays closed.
Sir Cowasji Jahangir Public Hall, M G Road, Fort, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400032.

PIN POSTER : Jehangir Nicholson gallery at 6pm on the 12th of April, 2016.

We are delighted to have two of Mumbai 's most talented artists present their work at the Jehangir Nicholson Gallery, CSMVS on the 12th of April, 2016.  Baiju Parthan and Sunil Gawde will trace the paths they have explored over several years of their artistic practice. The audience will have a chance to interact with them in a question and answer session that follows.

The presentations aim to provide  a richer understanding of the exhibition The Journey is the Destination of which their work is a part.

Join us at the Jehangir Nicholson gallery at 6pm on the 12th of April, 2016. Tea will be served at 5.30pm.

PIN POSTER : Taj Art Gallery - Mumbai

More Details contact

Aakriti Art Gallery
(A unit of Chisel Crafts Pvt. Ltd.)
Orbit Enclave, First Floor
12/3A, Hungerford Street
Kolkata-700 017
Phones : +91 33 22893027 / +91 33 22895041
Fax No : +91 33 22895042
E-Mail : art.aakriti@gmail.com - See more at: http://aakritiartgallery.com/contact#sthash.nJHsuHpd.dpuf

PIN POSTER : Museum of Goa

SAVE THE DATE: March 16th, 2016, Museum of Goa.

We are delighted to announce the 8th Edition of the Bellevue Salons, in collaboration with Chameleon Art Projects, and partnered with Museum of Goa and Charosa Wines, on the subject of ART + ECOLOGY: Genesis Eternal - Art Production, Sustainable Materials and the Environment with Shilpa Joglekar, Sanvar Oberoi, Kanchi Mehta & Subodh Kerkar. Followed by a performance withRomain Loustau. We look forward to having you for the presentations, salon, performance & festivities.— with Kanchi Mehta, Shilpa Joglekar, Romain Loustau and Sanvar Oberoi at MOG - museum of goa.

PIN POSTER : FEARLESS FILM MAKERS - This Thursday, March 3 from 6.00 p.m - 8.00 p.m at National Gallery of Modern Art, Fort.

FEARLESS FILMMAKERS - This Thursday, March 3 from 
6.00 p.m - 8.00 p.m at National Gallery of Modern Art, Fort.

Join Fearless Filmmakers Mary Dore of She's Beautiful When She's Angry, Vibha Bakshi ofDaughters of Mother India & Nishtha Jain of Gulabi Gang the documentary in conversation about using film as a medium to inspire social change with Anamika Chakravorty Goree Chief Cultural Officer of U.S. Consulate General Mumbai on March 3rd at the NGMA Mumbai. 
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PIN POSTER : The Journey is the Destination - that opens on the 15th of March, 2016 at 5pm. #artblogazine

We are delighted to present our new exhibition at the Jehangir Nicholson Gallery - The Journey is the Destination - that opens on the 15th of March, 2016 at 5pm.

The exhibition traces the journeys of eight artists in the

Nicholson Collection : Anju Dodiya, Atul Dodiya, Baiju Parthan, Nalini Malani, Sudhir Patwardhan, Sunil Gawde, Vivan Sundaram, and Zarina Hashmi.  We juxtapose a work by each of these artists in the  Collection with a work that conveys their present concerns. In each case, the difference or distance between the work in the collection and the recent work tells the story of the journey the artist has made in the course of his or her practice.

Artist Vivan Sundaram will release a catalogue that has been created to document this narrative of journeys  and speak to us of the many twists and turns his artistic practice has taken over the last few decades. 

Join us on the 15th of March at the Jehangir Nicholson Gallery, CSMVS, at 5.30pm. Tea will be served at 5pm.

Swapan Nayak & Gilles Bensimon: Gardens of the Mind TARQ, Mumbai

Gardens of the Mind

Tasveer and TARQ are delighted to announce the opening of Gardens of the Mind in Mumbai on the 25th of February, 2016. As part its 10th anniversary, Tasveer brings together for the first time the works of Indian artist, Swapan Nayak, and French fashion and lifestyle photographer, Gilles Bensimon, in an exhibition that juxtaposes two very different approaches to photographing elements of the natural  world.

Gilles Bensimon, former art director of Elle, makes a significant departure from his earlier figurative oeuvre in his series Watercolour, featured here. Fascinated by the beauty of flowers, and by their associations with myriad varieties of cultural expression around the world, he both literally and metaphorically submerged himself – and volumes of freshly cut blooms – into pools of water to create amazing blossoms of colour. The resulting images present a range of wonderful palettes and blurring the lines of abstraction and representation, yield  a new perspective on the traditional notions associated with the depiction of the flower in  art.

Recent work  Gilles Bensimon at TARQ

Bensimon’s photographs bursting with colour and a refractive-glossiness, are a stark contrast to Swapan Nayak’s black and white minimalist imagery. Nayak, a former photojournalist, also examines the natural world, and its intimate association to transformation. Made  over a span of three years, in Eastern and North Eastern India, his series Radha: A Love in Eternity also breaks away from simple representation, producing the known and familiar and new, graphic ways. Intended to be an exploration of purity, the nature of the self, of consciousness, the profound and the divine, this series was inspired by his reading of Vaishanava Padabali, a nearly 700 year old Bengali text, that narrates the very popular Hindu myth, of Radha and Krishna and their eternal love. In many ways, this series also forms a lateral progression from Nayak’s earlier Being and Nothingness that was inspired by Satre’s text of the same name and involved a quest for the truth.

Providing a unique opportunity in the study of photographic method and practice,  this exhibition through its juxtaposition of two distinct aesthetic styles highlights the diversity offered by the photographic medium in interpreting and re-presenting  reality.

SWAPAN NAYAK

Born in 1965, Swapan Nayak is an independent photographer based in Kolkata, India who started working professionally from 1995 and has worked in editorial photography for various publications both in India and abroad. He was awarded the National Media Fellowship (2002-2003) by the National Foundation for India, the Nirmaan photography fellowship award in 2006 and the National Senior Fellowship in photography (visual art) for the period of 2009-2011 by the Ministry of Culture, Government of India.

Recent work  Srwapan Nayak at TARQ

Nayak has held three main solo exhibitions, ‘Nowhere People’, ‘Refugees In Their Own Land’ and ‘Being & Nothingness’, and was also part of the group exhibition ‘Click! Contemporary photography from India’ organised by the Vadehra Art Gallery in 2008. His work has further been published in several international magazines; Time, News Week, Asia Week and Southern Exposure, amongst others.

GILLES BENSIMON

Born ‘a relatively long time ago’, in his own words, into a family of art dealers and artists, Gilles Bensimon is an internationally acclaimed fashion and lifestyle photographer, who counts his current age as 15 in leap years, since he was born on February 29. After stints in art school and the army, he ended up working for fashion magazines in France. Bensimon established his international reputation at the helm of Elle magazine, and  his star-studded portfolio consists of a very long list of leading models and celebrities, including Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell, Gisele Bündchen, Madonna, Gwyneth Paltrow, Keira Knightley, Beyoncé, Jennifer Lopez, Reese Witherspoon, Sarah Jessica Parker, Halle Berry and Uma Thurman; and his commercial clients have ranged from Kohl’s to Saks Fifth Avenue and Maybelline to Clarins.

Exhibition Previews: 25th February 2016

Exhibition Continues: 26th February - 19th March 2016

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C.S.M. Marg, Apollo Bunder Colaba

Mumbai 400001

Monday to Saturday, from 11am to 6pm; Sunday, closed

Press Contact: press@tasveerarts.com | +91 080  40535233

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PIN POSTER: Exhibition Previews: 25th February2016 Exhibition Continues:26 th February-17 th March 2016

PIN POSTER : Solo show of Bhopal Base Artist RAHIM MIRZA at Art Gate Gallery,

All Art Lover and Artist

You are all cordially invites solo show of Bhopal Base Artist RAHIM MIRZA at Art Gate Gallery,
OPENING ON 22/2/2016 / 6.00 PM Chheda Sadan,
115, J.tata Road, Above Satyam Complex, Churchgate, Mumbai 400020/
Email: rahim_mirza@yahoo.co.in/More Details : 9826032707rahim_mirza@yahoo.co.in