Monday, 26 December 2022

Wednesday, 21 December 2022

Press Release - The upcoming exhibition at Aakriti Art Gallery on the concept of ‘Freedom’.



On the occasion of 75 years of Indian Independence Aakriti Art Gallery presents an exhibition titled ‘FREEDOM: FROM DESPAIR TO DREAM’. The show is curated by the Art Writer and Curator Mrinal Ghosh featuring the works of 12 painters and 7 sculptors. The participant painters are Partha Pratim Deb, P.R.Narvekar, Chittrovanu Mazumdar, Chhatrapati Dutta, Samir Aich, Jaya Ganguli, Chandra Bhattacharya, K.Muralidharan, Samindranath Majumdar, Pankaj Panwar, Debraj Goswami and Bholanath Rudra, and the sculptors Krishen Khanna, Bimal Kundu, Deabnjan Roy, Akhil Chandra Das, Subrata Biswas, Tapas Biswas and Mrinal Kanti Gayen. The show will start on 28 December 2022 and will continue till 28 January 2023 from 11 am to 7 Pm Monday to Saturday.



The show is likely to reveal how to our artists freedom appears both as despair and dream. The despair is the reality, whether dream will turn to be utopia is an enigma.


For more details about the show, please get in touch with Komal Jaiswal at artshop@aakritiartgallery.com / +91 9830411116. The show can also be viewed at www.aakritiartgallery.com


Aakriti Art Gallery

Orbit Enclave, 1st Floor12/3A, Hungerford Street, Kolkata – 700 017

Phone: +91 33 22893027/5041

( Sunday Closed )

Fax No : +91 33 22895042


Website : http://www.aakritiartgallery.com

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Thursday, 15 December 2022

RITESH SHRIKANT BHOI Preview: Solo show / 20th November 2022

 


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DO COME- Nippon Community. - Wating 20th 

Solo show  -Bhoipir

by RITESH SHRIKANT BHOI

Preview: Solo show  / 20th November 2022


Time: 5:30 pm - 8:00 pm onwards / Exhibition Time: 3:00 pm - 7:00 pm

RSVP: +91 9820510599 / Nippon Gallery:

info@nippongallery.com


www.nippongallery.com 

NIPPON 30/32, 2nd Floor, Deval Chambers,Nanabhai Lane, Flora Fountain, Fort,Mumbai – 400 001, India.#soloshow #nipponsolo #mumbaiartweekent #tusedayopen  #APPLY #sndtartcollege #santiniketan #jjschoolofart #delhiartcolleage #indianwomenartist

Priyasri Art Gallery will be hosting a solo exhibition of Jogen Chowdhury towards MGW 2023 at Kathiwada City House (KCH), Mumbai.

 


We are delighted to inform you that Priyasri Art Gallery will be hosting a solo exhibition of Jogen Chowdhury towards MGW 2023 at Kathiwada City House (KCH), Mumbai.

"Artist-imaginaire of a tradition that brought craft, tradition and modernity in conversation with each other, Jogen Chowdhury evokes glimpses of folkloric time in his recent works". 

-Srajana Kaikini (Ideator)

Dr Srajana Kaikini works across philosophical, artistic and curatorial grounds. She is presently Assistant Professor of Philosophy at SIAS, Krea University.

Priyasri Patodia invites artist-philosopher Srajana Kaikini to respond to Jogen Chowdhury’s works in this new ensemble titled "The Night the Writing Fell Silent". 

Looking forward to hearing back from you for more information.

Have a wonderful week.

Regards,
Yogisha/Apurva
Priyasri Art Gallery

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Tuesday, 13 December 2022

“I remember you from tomorrow.” Ratnadeep Adivrekar’

Artist: Ratnadeep Adivrekar

‘’For the memories themselves are not important. Only when they have changed into our very blood, into glance and gesture, and are nameless, no longer to be distinguished from ourselves only then can it happen that in some very rare hour the first word of a poem arises in their midst and goes forth from them.”

-        Rainer Marie Rilke


A   thought is a function of time, a pattern of growth, and not the thing that the lens of the printed word seems to objectify. It is more like a cloud than a rock, although its effects can be just as long lasting as a block of stone, and its aging subject to the similar processes of destructive erosion and constructive edification. Duration is the medium that makes thought possible, therefore duration is to consciousness as light is to the eye.


From the medieval vantage point, the post-Brunelleschi optical painting seemed to be not all here, the illusion of someplace else compared to the concrete, immediate, nondescriptive existence of the icon image. The physical apparatus of the moving image necessitates its existence as primarily a mental phenomenon. The viewer sees only one image at a time in the case of the painting and more extreme, only the decay trace of a flipping page in the video. In either case, the whole does not exist and therefore can only reside in the mind of the person who has seen it, to be revived periodically through his or her memory.

Conceptual and physical movement becomes equal, experience becomes a language, and concreteness emerges from the highly abstract, metaphysical nature of Ratnadeep Adivrekar’s work. It is this concreteness of individual experience, the original impetus for the story –

“I remember you from tomorrow.”

 


Abhijeet Gondkar

(Abhijeet Gondkar is an independent writer and curator based in Mumbai. The above excerpts are from Ratnadeep Adivrekar’s solo show “I remember you from tomorrow.” at IFBE Space, Mumbai in November 2022)

 

Friday, 9 December 2022

Interview: Formless in Form A solo show of works by AKIE YANAGISAWA Showcased at Nippon Gallery, Mumbai

 Appreciating each aspect of living and cherishing every expression of life, Akie Yanagisawa grew up moulding her experiences into pieces of art. The diligent way of bringing all her feelings and energy to the artworks channel a communication between herself and the material world. During her expeditions to various countries, she acknowledged that artistry is perpetual and from there she got a blend of sophistication and inspiration to draw and paint her surroundings.While capturing moments in the artworks, she never bound herself to any particular medium or style. In her notion, art unites all, just like the notes of music do, who are different, create different melodies, but eventually are pleasing.Every artwork that she creates is a different reflection of herself in varied situations in life.The use of strong and bold colours accompanied by soft and mushy strokes are what magnet the focus of the audience. Her artworks create a story in which every painting depicts an episode.


Interview

1: It is true that for an artist creation is life, can you elaborate on your journey of life as an artist?

What I experienced as a female, daughter, mother, and wife in this material world has given me every reflection of myself in different roles I need to play, they brought me all I needed for understanding who I am and what  I need in my life, every time I feel joy, sad, empty, it becomes my life. I appreciate every person I met and everything I had until this moment. Through these I got what I exactly wanted in my life, which is being myself, my drawings, paintings and artwork, it is the way I show my connections with myself in this world. I am at that moment where I am doing creation, I bring all my feelings and energy to a piece to a communication with myself. This is the art in my creative life.

2. Since you try to capture moments in your art, do you believe that adding abstract notions in the artworks makes them more personal and meaningful?

The moments when I have special feelings that bring me sparkle impulses me to paint or draw, I think we always have such moments every day. When I created these moments on my canvases they turn into abstract shapes or something very real, whatever I experience or sense through my mind. Every creation is a different reflection of me in different situations and a connection with myself, they are all important to me.

3. What significant difference do you sense is in western and Asian art? Do you feel culture is more powerful than concepts?

Thinking of the differences sometimes forces me to understand more about myself, we all have a very brilliant part of ourselves that makes us think about life without boundaries. In my world, there are no boundaries and comparisons. This is just like in the music, we only have 7 notes, but we can make different music from these notes. Culture is made from our life in different areas under different eras, but as much as I am connected with myself I don’t feel anything powerfully.





The show was a huge success.

Great thanks to the artist AKIE YANAGISAWA and Curator of the show Tathi Premchand


Formless in Form

A solo show of works by

AKIE YANAGISAWA



Showcased at

Nippon Gallery, Mumbai

Monday, 28 November 2022

Formless in the Form solo show of works by AKIE YANAGISAWA Healing Art with soul from a Japanese artist Preview Night: Solo show 29th November 2022

 

AKIE YANAGISAWA

Do come and SAVE DATE

Formless in the Form
solo show of works by

AKIE YANAGISAWA

Healing Art with soul from a Japanese artist

Preview Night: Solo show
29th November 2022
Time: 5:30 pm - 8:30 pm onwards

29th November to 6th December 2022
Exhibition Time: 3:00 pm - 7:00 pm RSVP: +91 9820510599 / Nippon Gallery:

Sale enquiery on info@nippongallery.com

NIPPON
30/32, 2nd Floor, Deval Chambers,Nanabhai Lane, Flora Fountain, Fort,
Mumbai – 400 001, India.

Saturday, 26 November 2022

Nippon Gallery - solo show of works by AKIE YANAGISAWA - from Japan


Do come and SAVE DATE

Formless in the From 
solo show of works by

AKIE YANAGISAWA

Healing Art with soul
from a Japanese artist

Preview Night: Solo show

29th November 2022

Time: 5:30 pm - 8:30 pm onwards

29th November to 6th December 2022
Exhibition Time: 3:00 pm - 7:00 pm

RSVP: +91 9820510599 / Nippon Gallery:

Sale enquiery on info@nippongallery.com

NIPPON
30/32, 2nd Floor, Deval Chambers,
Nanabhai Lane, Flora Fountain, Fort,
Mumbai – 400 001, India.

Friday, 11 November 2022

Save the Date: 19th November | A Performance by Sarah Naqvi

 


TARQ is delighted to announce a performance by Sarah Naqvi. This performance, titled When a name is laid to rest by force, where lies its burial ground, looks at autocratic developments through the lens of poetry and voice. Using the body as a vehicle, the artist references ideas of faith, displacement, and labour against an aural background of the confluence of rivers. 

This performance will be followed by a conversation with the artist and Hena Kapadia. The exhibition catalogue, featuring an essay by the Curatorial Advisor Shaunak Mahbubani, will also be available to purchase at this event. 


Click here to register for this event.

Sarah Naqvi’s first solo show, how many songs in a single note? includes video installations, tapestry, drawings, paintings, and sculptures, emanating from Naqvi’s brave confrontation of identity-based injustice in the current socio-political landscape. Through these works Naqvi juxtaposes dissent with the tenderness of family, care, and healing in the domestic layout of this exhibition. 

Click here to read more about the exhibition.

About the Artist
Sarah Naqvi is an Indian artist, based in Mumbai/Amsterdam. Their work engages in narratives themed around religious and societal polarisation, centring art and their tool for activism. The materiality and techniques in their work are at play to create familiarity with the viewer, with satire, whimsical props, and softness you are made to believe something joyous awaits. 
 
Sarah studied Liberal Arts at St. Xavier's College, Mumbai and earned their Bachelor of Textiles from National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad. They had their first solo exhibition Bashaoor, at Clark House, Mumbai in 2018, followed by their second solo exhibition, Sharam o Haya, at Ame Nue, Hamburg in 2019. They have also shown their work at the Bangkok Art Biennale, MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum in Thailand and Kunsthall Trondheim in Norway.
 
Sarah has been a part of the De Ateliers Residency, Amsterdam in 2019-2021 as well as the Forecast Forum Residency, Berlin in 2018. They were the recipient of 'The Phenomenal She' award in 2019 conferred by the Indian National Bar Association and NID Ford Foundation Grant in 2018.


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