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Tuesday, 1 March 2016
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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
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.
Friday, 26 February 2016
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.
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| 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.
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| 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
Exhibition Continues: 26th February - 19th March 2016
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PIN POSTER : Solo show of Bhopal Base Artist RAHIM MIRZA at Art Gate Gallery,
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Saturday, 20 February 2016
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Thursday, 18 February 2016
Functional function of Artist Leonardo-da-Vinci - Pankaja JK
It has been long since anything is written about
past era artists like Raphael, Michelangelo, Leonardo and others. They all have
classic contribution in art. In the age when one can write in volumes about
contemporary artist, it may seem queer to some, the mention of past era
artists. But I need to. The reason is important and to be considered from
social point of view. We all know
artists are the mirrors of the society. History has also witnessed their
valuable contribution. One such artists who has contributed to society in the
fullest extent is Leonardo da Vinci. His contribution was not only restricted
to his country but to the whole world. The following is a brief introduction to
his socially viable work and also how his share as an inventor, civil engineer,
military engineer, astronomer, geologist, anatomist and partly an astronaut a
researcher, scientist and engineer and many more practical aspects has resulted
in assisting his art and how we have with us the treasure of his illustrated
pages with detailed observations and outlines of inventions. He was marvellous
in every field that is mentioned here. It is interesting that his art bloomed
due the scientific instincts and his scientific nature bud out of art. So, we
can conclude that a true artist also must have an instinct of scientist.
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Leonardo da Vinci had been the greatest experimental
scientist of his age and an acknowledged artist. His ‘Mona Lisa’ and ‘Last
Supper’ are classic paintings one with mystery and awesome creativity and other
mesmerizing too.
Since his school days he was sharp in solving
mathematical problems and also showed notable talent in paintings. When he was
sixteen years old he worked as an apprentice of artist Andrea del Verrocchio.
In his guidance, Leonardo learned to work with wood, marble and metal. Andrea
then insisted that Leonardo studied Latin and Greek classics, philosophy,
mathematics and anatomy.
As I write this article, I really wonder how many
artists take efforts to go out of the way to learn something different from
what they intend to paint or install.Hardly a few do this, and only those who
know that referring to subjects other than art, is only the way to be a true
artist. An artists should have knowledge of various fields.
Reading recommended books on art and improvising
one’s own skill is the sign of academic excellence and not of a true artistic
passion.Leonardo’s mentor, Andrea wanted Leonardo to become a true artist and
knew that study and knowledge of various fields was necessary for it. Sadly,
now art schools have become production houses of artists with degrees and very
little understanding of other fields. Newly studying and budding artists are in
hurry to have exhibition of their artworks and intend to be famous- famous and
likeablelike instant foods! Following the guidance of Andrea, Leonardo
completed his apprenticeship at the age of twenty six and he was admitted in
Artists’ Guild, where one could obtain their own patrons. This was a step
towards progress. He invented a novel musical instrument- a lute in the shape
of a horse’s head in which teeth served to select the tones- this captured the
attention of Duke Ludovico Sforza, the then ruler of Milan. This opened the
doors for Leonardo to try and experiment his conceived projects. Art came
closer to politics as he got the patron.
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| Image wikipedia (A page showing Leonardo's study of a foetus in the womb (c. 1510) Royal Library,) |
That was the age when kingdoms of Italy frequently
strived with each other. The artist Leonardo da Vinci devoted his art for
military equipment design. Almost at the same time was suffering from plague,
which is a disease spread by rat bite, he was aware of it and knew to prevent
it sewers needed modification. So he worked on his projects, though they were
not approved. But here acceptance or rejection is not an issue, his social
conscience ids admirable. He was socially aware artist.
His exceptional anatomical drawings are still
considered the perfect anatomical drawings. He developed them while in Milan,
with the help of famous doctors and also by attending dissections himself to
observe the internal make of human body. Obviously, his drawings show a
profound understanding of the anatomical structure of a man. His skull drawings
showed for the first time, the openings in the forehead and in jaws. He
perfectly presented the position of unborn child in the womb of mother. His
drawings of heart, the chambers, and the valves presents his doctor’s vision.
When the Duke Ludovico Sforzawas captured by the
King of France, Leonardo lost his patron, so he went to Venice and offered his
military inventions. He devised a diving suit and a submarine. He was mindful not to note or illustrate the
designs of these inventions because he was afraid that evil nature of man would
use it to murder men at the bottom of the sea. Oh, how clearly it reminds us of
scientist Albert Einstein, who regretted his atomic research which proved fatal
to mankind!
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| ( Albert Einstein ) Image wikipedia |
Leonardo also applied his knowledge to be a cartographer
for Cesar Borgia. As Borgia wanted to conquer Italy, Leonardo was engaged in
making maps;Leonardo himself didthe survey and measurements. For travelling
long distances and measuring the area, he invented an important tool called
odometer, the device that notes how long automobile hastravelled, by keeping
records of revolution of wheels. This helped him in making maps. Interestingly,
even modern automobiles have odometer.
Leonardo is also instrumental in inventing machine
gun with many barrels mounted on triangular support. His military tank consisted
of a mobile enclosure with breech-loaded cannons. The tank was manually
operated, as it was invented before any mechanical power other than wind or water
power was invented. A double-hull ship is also an excellent example of his
artistic and scientific brain. If the outer hull was gun- fired by enemy, the
ship still remained afloat.
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| (A design for a flying machine, (c. 1488) Institut de France, Paris)Image wikipedia |
His other notable inventions include anemometer, the
device used to measure wind.
Leonardo invented mechanisms which are refined and
used even today. For example, machine tool industries have file-cutting and
screw-cutting machines equal to those designed by Leonardo da Vinci. All the
artists working in metal please note the Father of this invention!
Leonardo had special interest in aspects of water
that inspired him to design a pump that used the power of stream to raise
water. He studied shape of fish which helped him to design ship. His botanical
love is presented in notes and drawing forms which include heliotropism, rings
of trees related to age of the tree. Flowers of varied types were drawn and he
understood how the male and female plant life exists.
In his teenage, he made observation of birds’
inflight by releasing some swallows from cage. He noted their way through air,
now flying, now soaring. The sketches are valuable from artistic angle too. He
was confident that the same principles of flight would hold true for men. It
was impossible for anyone in that age to think that a man could fly. But Leonardo
da Vinci was certain that we could. He
experimented with this thought in1940 and designed a flying machine (though it
never worked out) with flap of huge wings. Then he tried his hand at making
helicopter also linen-covered wooden frame in pyramid form.
Invention is one of the greatest art. Leonardo’s
unbounded extent of thinking, feeling and creating gave birth to his excellent
creations in paintings, scientific studies and inventions.Leonardo always practiced noting his observations in
his own style- the mirror image, to maintain secrecy. Many of his sketches have
been made into working models. These devices are occasionally exhibited.
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| The Last Supper (1498)—Convent of Sta. Maria delle Grazie, Milan, Italy(Image wikipedia) |
An artist needn’t only follow philosophical course.
True knowledge comes from experience and meticulous observation of things
around. It is the skilful understanding of how every element in nature works in
unison and in individual space. Nature has all the examples of what human can
think and get inspired by.
Just before I stop detailing about Leonardo da
Vinci’s contribution in other fields than in art, I would like to mention the
clock invented by him. It was he who first developed a clock that had hours and
seconds hands.
The time ticks and it can be heard clear in silent
zone, making the thoughtful brains to come up with something novel, fruitful
and evergreen, just like Leonardo da Vince.
Content taken from reference materials too.
(2016 - No copyright claim of any image by Writer or Artblogazine.com)
send feedback to JK pankjajk@gmail.com
By Pankaja JK.
Sunday, 14 February 2016
# MONEY * FOOD @ LIFE, at Jehangir Hirji Art Gallery, 1st floor, Fort, Mumbai, Inauguration at 5 pm to 6 pm on 15th Feb 2016, Chandrakant Ganacharya Mumbai
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# MONEY * FOOD @ LIFE,
at Jehangir Hirji Art Gallery,
1st floor, Fort, Mumbai,
Inauguration at 5 pm to 6 pm
on 15th Feb 2016,
Chandrakant Ganacharya
Mumbai
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(Un)Common Concerns
Grocery bags
filled with calculations- mostly subtractions, clothes designs on onion,
ATM Slips, text messages that keep bumping into a salaried person's
cellphone, or a wallet and common food like Wada-Paaw... constitute a
language of the everyday that Chandrakant Ganacharya has seen in the
city and elsewhere. It finds it's due place in his work, and boils down
to hunger, struggle, and the powers that form the lure and lore of this
everyday.
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| Artist : Chandrakant S Ganacharya |
Beneath the overtly middle-class concerns readable in
Chandrakant's work, there are layers of meaning common not only to a
class, or not only to humans. Everyday stuggles can be a reality for a
turtle, a frog, a lizard, an octopus, or a jellyfish.The artist places
these animal and insects, graphically under the onion that has been
sitting on a throne - thanks to hoarders and their political bosses.
Chandrakant's
installations are eloquent about absence, though each of them looks
visually abundant. Each ATM slip digs deeper in your bank balance. The
text messages bluntly say : you have (only this much of) money or you
will need a loan to fulfill your dream.
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| Recent work by Chandrakant S Ganacharya |
The artist further
explores these absences by mock recollection and re-enactment.The
redundant coins with denominations like 20, 10, five, two and one paise
are now executed in terracotta. They were once there, three decades ago,
knows every Indian in his fourties, as the work makes the viewer think
about a civilization as old as Mohenjodaro or Lothal. Another
re-enactment, of the verbal wisdom about hunger, a full meal or acute
lack of it , comes to the viewer as speech bubbles, made out of rusted
steel dishes of various shapes and sizes. Proverbs, sayings and thoughts
in various languages of the subcontinent are literally dished out.
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| Recent work by Chandrakant S Ganacharya |
Chandrakant's
graphic representations, as one in the work titled " Krishna Chhaya"
evoke literal clues to black money. However, the artist has a silent
mode. he makes us look silently at the row made of gold-plated peanuts
and pins... ants, obviously... or is it us?
The concerns in Chandrakant's work may look common as they reach us. But once we ponder over them, they are not common.
# MONEY * FOOD @ LIFE,
Jehangir Hirji Art Gallery,
1st floor, Fort, Mumbai,
Jehangir Hirji Art Gallery,
1st floor, Fort, Mumbai,
Inauguration at 5 pm to 6 pm
on 15 th Feb 2016,
on 15 th Feb 2016,
Chandrakant Ganacharya
Mumbai
Mumbai
Friday, 12 February 2016
Join us anytime, from the 20th to the 24th of February,
Dear Friends,
For four days, the Curator’s Gallery, CSMVS, shows new work by Howard Hodgkin, in the exhibition Made in Mumbai, 2016.
Join us anytime, from the 20th to the 24th of February, in a celebration of Howard Hodgkin’s deep connection with Mumbai and the warm response of people, to his work reflecting the light and life of the city.
The film Howard Hodgkin in India, produced by the British Council brings the celebration to an end on the 24th of February at 6.30 pm with a screening at the Visitor’s Centre Auditorium, CSMVS. Tea will be served at 6pm.
We would also like to invite you to an evening with the artist Sakti Burman, who will be in conversation with cultural theorist Ranjit Hoskote on the 22nd of February 2016. Sakti Burman who is in the city for a solo exhibition of his works, draws his inspiration from several sources, ranging from the Ajanta caves to the paintings of the Italian Renaissance. The evening promises us insights into an artist who has embraced two cultures and created from them, his own unique world of fable, fantasy and myth.
Do join us on for tea at 6pm at the Visitor’s Centre, CSMVS on the 22nd of February. The talk will begin at 6.30pm.
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