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| The National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, Ministry of Culture, Government of India cordially invites you to the inauguration of "The Mind's Cupboard: A Retrospective of Lalitha Lajmi", on Thursday, 12th January, 2023, 5:00 pm at NGMA Mumbai, Auditorium. |
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| Apnavi Makanji |
About the Artist
Apnavi Makanji's body of work spans the mediums of drawing, installation and video. Their preoccupations center around displacement, ecology with an emphasis on botany, explorations of memory and the idea of home. The interaction of this synthesis with the construct of urban spaces and the socio-economic structure of our times, lies at the core of their work.
Their last solo show was Soil as Witness | Memory as Wound, TARQ, Mumbai, 2019.Their other solo shows include Travails of the Wandering Memory Seed, Galerie Félix Frachon, Brussels, 2016, Domus Vulgus, Art Asia Miami (with support from The Guild NY) Miami 2010; Domus Vulgus, The Guild NY, New York 2010.
Makanji recently participated in the Dhaka Art Summit (February 2020). They have taken part in several group shows including CLAUSTROPHOBIA ALPINA II – Subliminal Illuminations & the Shadows of Flight, curated by Varun Kumar, Forde Geneva, 2022; NATURE YOU ARE, Theatre Benno Besson, Yverdon Les Bain, 2022; HEAT, Espace Labo, Geneva, 2022; (ME)(MORY) curated by Dipti Anand, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, 2021; I LOVE #ArtistesDici a public intervention facilitated by the Fonds Municipal d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, 2020; Narrow Road to the Interior, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, 2019; Remembering the Present, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, 2018; Carnets, Halle Nord, Geneva, 2017; Raving Disco Dolly on a Rock ‘n’ Roll Trolley, Envoy Enterprises, New York, 2014; Considering Collage, Jhaveri Contemporary, Bombay, 2013.
Makanji lives and works in Geneva.
Artist Photo Credit: Stephanie Hügli
About the Exhibition
Apnavi Makanji’s second solo exhibition at TARQ, PSYCHOPOMP, comes at a pivotal time in the artist’s life and practice. Featuring their drawings, collages, mixed media sculptures and a video, the works in the show are about post-colonial extractivist histories, queering the future, human connection and navigating the current
Phallocratic Heterotopia.Memory, botany and ecology play key roles in Makanji’s artistic idiom. In this show, Makanji’s artworks merge visuals of biological species with images of extractivism,
highlighting how removed our idea of nature is from the truth of our actions towards it. An example of this is Styx, an installation of found objects and blueprints of crude oil extraction sites in West Africa belonging to the French Elf petroleum company, which portray the artist’s concerns on subjects of neo-colonialism, slave labour, and extractivism.
Juxtaposed with this bleak reality of the world, a portion of this body of work explores what is termed by the artist as, “the possibilities of a post anthropocentric world through a queer lens”. Here, Makanji views being queer as the ability to adapt, as well as the ability to be kind, compassionate and soft. As described by the artist, “PSYCHOPOMP guides us toward but also embodies this proposition of a Queertopia that stems from a collective, intersectional awareness that is not exclusive to our species but extends itself to every other species including the botanical and mineral worlds.”
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Preview Night: 27th Jan 2023, Time: 6 t0 10pm
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| Artist: Rajesh Rajbhar at Jehangir art gallery, 2022 |
Concept note
“Expression is an aliveness which can be only felt through experience.”
I start with a blank canvas and a blank mind and then stories, and images emerge from a dialogue between the canvas and the mind. I indulge in painting with no subject matter but only expressions of endless queue, skyscrapers, movement of people, windows of the buildings, and queue at common water tap and then begin with full energy and feelings which comes out in form of expressions of life. Some expressions are unexplained, but expression is an expression in itself, which cannot be explained. We can see and feel it and thus it’s a visual expression.
Using a stick as a medium to move the colour from one end of the canvas to the other my “Dripping – Style” technique highlights free and spontaneous subconscious feelings and emotions, which are suppressed for a longer time and with the flow of the colour, they too flow very naturally. I play with gestures of expressions in parts which then forms one whole expression.
With a smooth canvas as a surface, I prepare the base with a flat pigment and play with diverse set of materials. My repertoire includes materials such as acrylic, watercolour, ink, oil colors household paints and equally varied set of tools such as brushes, cloth, metal wires, rollers, tubes, socks, and bare hands too. Thus, these act as a cathartic release for my emotions and thoughts.
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SPACE WITHIN BLACK
I am immensely happy to meet Rajesh Rajbhar, who is a painter totally dedicated to visual art. He is young and passionately involved in visual art and he is thoroughly associated with various aspects of this art since he has stepped into the world of visual communication. He is totally devoted to the art and aesthetic in the field of visual communication.
I have never taught him but when we started exchanging our views on art and life, we came closer to each other. It was our visual and reciprocal talk on art and life, agony and deep desire for knowledge in art that has kept us deeply connected. As a teacher, I never taught him any academics related to formal art but observed minutely that he wanted to discover a new way of expression. He follows his own way of experiences and communication through his unique way of expression with Black colour to which he is dedicated thoroughly with confidence and faith in himself. He has founded his curious thought process and his desire for contemporary world of art. He has developed an enthusiastic way of expression in the ‘Black colour’ which he started working on huge canvas as if he was trying to discover the hidden soul of black. He struggled a lot but never gave up discovering the breathing soul of black.
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Rajesh is deeply involved in his unique theory of expression in black colour. As a matter of fact, for him black is not a just a colour but his conceptual journey to find out the conscience and soul of black which does not remain a pigment but a medium of communication. It is an eternal journey of unknown discovery of the black which throbs constantly in his existence.
I personally feel that he is trying to develop a new visual language in black which only he can understand today, but I am sure that his language will be noticed and read by sensitive connoisseurs in future. He is haunted by black and black is responding to this young artist as if the black is not just a colour but two sides of the living darkness, discovered by young artist called Rajesh Rajbhar. I wish him a great future; may God bless him and fulfil his desire of living with black.
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Eminent Artist Dr. Prabhakar Kolte
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| Prabhakar Kolte at Jehangir Art Gallery- Mumbai - 400 001 |
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.
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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
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