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Thursday, 24 December 2020
Wednesday, 2 December 2020
TARQ : YOU ARE ALL CAUGHT UP Sameer Kulavoor
About the Exhibition
3rd December- 7th January
2021
11:00 am – 6:30 pm | Tuesday – Saturday | By Appointment
The team at TARQ is delighted to present ‘YOU ARE ALL CAUGHT UP’ by Sameer
Kulavoor. This is his second solo exhibition at TARQ. The show is
made up of a series of paintings and drawings that are an expression of the
artist's understanding of the tumultuous historical moment that we
are currently experiencing. In this show, Kulavoor continues to be fascinated with
Social Media, and looks deeply at ideas of the personal and political through
the ubiquitous blue screen.
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Sameer Kulavoor, I LIKE IT. WHAT IS
IT?, Acrylic on canvas, 48 x
48 inches, 2019
While the artist has in some ways continued his unique observations of urban spaces – the
landscape he is intimately familiar with – he now
looks at these regular haunts through the lens of the growing pandemic. In this,
he grows curiouser and curiouser as to how and why people adapt to the times by
consuming content that is now readily available at your fingertips, and often
times, leads to an information overload. In many ways, his works are a
documentation of life not only in an urban metropolis but the restless mental
state of living through a time of political turmoil.
As a sign of the times, it is not uncommon to find the omnipresent cell phone in several works, serving to alienate, entertain and often, making the private, public. Kulavoor continues to question and dissect how humanity, as a whole, is adapting to and fighting against these unchartered territories seeking change.
About the Artist
Sameer Kulavoor (b.1983) is a visual artist living and
working in Mumbai, India. His work lies at the intersection of art, graphic
design & contemporary illustration and has taken the form of paintings,
murals, books, zines, prints and objects. He is interested in why things look
the way they do; constantly exploring and understanding the impact that time,
culture, politics and socio-economic conditions have on our visible and
invisible surroundings. In this age of visual overload, his work involves
filtering, dissecting, documenting and de-familiarizing commonly seen subjects
through the act of drawing, painting and design.
Some of the zines he has produced include Sidewalks & Coffeeshops (2009),
Zeroxwallah Zine (2011), The Ghoda Cycle Project (poster-book, 2012), Blued
(book/zine, 2013) and Oh Flip (flipbooks, 2013). He exhibited The Ghoda Cycle
Project at WDC Helsinki in 2012 and in Mumbai in 2013 while also collaborating
with Paul Smith on a series of Ghoda Cycle Tee-shirt designs which were
released worldwide. He presented select sketchbook drawings from between 2012
and 2016 as large serigraphs at Artisans', Kalaghoda, in a show titled 'Please
Have A Seat' (2016). He has been working on a number of large scale public art
projects and paintings which are on view in Auckland (New Zealand), Mumbai,
Bengaluru, Delhi and Chennai. ‘A Man of the Crowd’ (2018) was Kulavoor’s first
solo presentation at TARQ. Two of his new works were showcased at the TARQ
booth group show at India Art Fair in 2019. Most recently, his drawings and
paintings were part of ‘The Shifting City’ - Mumbai pavilion of ‘Making Heimat
- Arrival City’ at the Goethe Institut Max Mueller Bhavan curated by Kaiwan
Mehta.
Kulavoor was the founder of Bombay Duck Designs
which is presently directed by graphic artist + urdu/arabic typography
specialist, Zeenat Kulavoor. Along with artist/designer Lokesh Karekar
(Locopopo), Kulavoor also founded and curated six issues of 100%ZINE (currently
on hiatus) – a visual arts magazine that discovers and showcases a wide range
of visual art talent from India and abroad.
Digital Initiatives
As we continue to cope with the current coronavirus pandemic, the safety of our staff and visitors is our utmost priority. With various sanitization and safety measures in place, we invite you to the space to enjoy the artworks in the flesh – you can take an individual appointment with our team here. For those who are unable to come by, we are also making the exhibition more accessible online with a variety of digital initiatives.
Virtual Exhibition Visit: If you are unable to make it to the gallery in person, one of the team members will walk you through the exhibition on display virtually via Zoom. You can take an appointment here.
Interactive Viewing
Experience: We continue are collaboration with, Varun Ramanna and Charu Tak to
develop a new experience for every exhibition, one that accentuates, rather
than imitates the physical experience of visiting a show. Varun Ramanna is a
multidisciplinary artist and technologist working in projects ranging from
animation and VFX for television and film to new media and immersive
experiences for clients all over the world. Charu Tak is a programmer and game
developer. She predominantly works on new media projects for enterprise clients
but also on commercial and independent game projects.
Online Viewing Room: Exhibitions hosted at TARQ starting in April 2020 are available to view on www.tarq.in. Each online viewing room allows visitors to access the individual works in the show, accompanied by details, installation images and in some cases, short video snippets with the artist.
Digital Catalogue: Since
the inception of TARQ, we have published a catalogue for every exhibition,
which are available to read and buy in print at the gallery. Since the
pandemic, we have made all our past and current catalogues available online, so
that our audiences can read the scholarly essays, interviews and points of view
on the work that our artists do.
C.S.M. Marg, Apollo Bunder,
Colaba, Mumbai - 400 001.
Phone: +91 22 6615 0424Email: info@tarq.inTimings: 11AM–6.30PMOpen: Tuesday - Saturday
Tuesday, 1 December 2020
Nippon Gallery - The Natural Resurrection - Narratives in blue - by Gunjan Shrivastava
2020 is undeniably going to go down as one of the most eventful and an extraordinary year in history. The pandemonium of COVID-19 caught us off-guard and changed the way of life tagging it as new normal. This new normal indeed brought vivacity to long-overlooked “Mother Nature”. Conceptualized keeping the intriguing observations of natures evolvement through the pandemic, this collection embodies the healing process of the environment and its consequent resurrection.
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Governor of West Bengal Hon' Kesari Nath Tripathi with Gunjan Shrivastava cyanotype works 2019 |
And whilst the plague known to humankind lies stagnant, it is a marvel to watch nature reclaim and embrace itself; years and years of damage is being slowly healed, as in the short span of three weeks we see the Earth healing itself. The past century left mankind convinced that industrialization is human progress, and that the latter cannot coexist with the natural world. It took for the world to come to a standstill to remind us of the fact that we are, in fact, a part of this physical world. We are suddenly made aware of the notion that perhaps, there is a path for us to thrive without destroying that which surrounds us.
This collection is a call to action. By restoring degraded ecosystems and engaging in co-evolutionary processes, humankind can coexist, and even thrive by developing nature's wealth. This is our chance to identify it not as a plague, but as a cure.
As an artist, years of my consciousness towards sustainability inspires me to explore cyanotypes which is a beautiful process of natural phenomenon. It is a meditative experience to see the sun as the source of energy, which magically translates my subjects into profoundly soulful works of art. Adding my signature touch to the collection, it further explores the theme of natural decay with broken leaves printed onto the paper, and are completed with embroidery using red fine string. The colour red here symbolizes blood veins. Metaphorically, the print of the leaf stands to portray that the elements present are natural. My body of works embarks on the awareness to restore the belief in redemptive restoration and emboldens better environmental practice to reclaim what is degraded, damaged and destroyed.
Nippon Gallery is pleased to announce the launching of online solo exhibition
"The Natural Resurrection"
-Narratives in blue -
By
Gunjan Shrivastava
Online Solo Show
Contemporary Art Gallery Hall – 1
2nd to 9th December -2020
Thursday, 26 November 2020
The Natural Resurrection - Narratives in blue By Gunjan Shrivastava Online Solo Show
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Wednesday, 25 November 2020
“Celebrating Life” Indian Culture Paintings - Cyrus Bharucha, Art Consultant -Mumbai
Celebrating Life
Indian art is not monolithic, nor
is there one kind of Indian-ness, in today’s global village, Indians are
exposed to cross-cultural ideas and the work they produce is influenced by many
sources. To be Indian, there’s no demarcatable identity. Your Indian-ness comes
from the genius of possessing a membrane that absorbs and selectively absorbs
from many cultures and indigenises it in the process. If you’re able to do that
authentically and create an original voice, that means you’re able to extend
your vision of the world, then you’re Indian. Having established an identity,
many of the artists, are creating works that appear Indian in terms of figures,
forms and colours, and they are tending more toward culture while their works
very well may still address Indian themes. Considering these basic experiences
the group exhibition Celebrating Life is structured such that each work carries
its own flavor.
In the paintings of Laxmi Mysore, and Syed
Asif Ali colourful forms play hide and seek with the pictorial surface to
release their untamed creative energies. Krishna Ashok layers the surface with
spontaneous mark makings interplaying elegant elementary of water & fire
the active shapes of a representational
Kandi Narsimlu wants the viewer to
experience his work with composition, theme, and other elements of traditional
work. The medium and materials of the work is its reality, and what he prefers
to portray. The basis being on a work’s literal presence, the materials used
are not intended to symbolize anything else. Sanju Jain translates mystical
energies into the formal purity of colours creating pleasing forms a distinct flavor in this reiterating the dictum that all things are in flux: they
resonate with the cadences of a universe that continually brings its
precipitates to birth, only to subject them to decay, dissolving them in
history's acid current.
Mythologies & sacred narratives are a way of life in India, where existence is often reassured by faith and belief this is observed in Pramod Apet’s Radha Playing the Flute and Mamata Shingade’s Buddha Sachin Akalekar places motif of Bull in a dreamy space teasing the naïve viewer. Satyajeet Shinde precepts the game of chess comparable with the ancient cultures. The co relation of Kings---chess game---realism with abstraction is seen like the yin-yan..
by Cyrus Bharucha Art Consultant- Dadar Mumbai
“Celebrating Life”
Indian Culture Paintings
Open Link : https://nippongallery.com/.../celebrating-life-group-show/
Artists:
l Kandi Narsimlu l Satyajeet Shinde l Syed Asif Ali l
l Laxmi Mysore l Sanju Jain l
l Krishna Ashok l Sachin Akalekar l Pramod Apet l Mamata Shingade l
Date: 10th to 25th November -2020
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Visit Gallery Hall – 7
Do visit. Warm Regards.
Friday, 9 October 2020
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Today Open 11am
Take long breath before entering the show
SOCIAL STUDY BY LENS
SUDHARAK OLWE
Date: 10th to 30th Oct 2020
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Digital - Auditorium Hall – 2
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Saturday, 26 September 2020
Khisa(Pocket) short film worldwide online premiere screening at 9th Dublin International short film and Music festival Ireland 2020.
Marathi movies are reaching new heights every day.Marathi content is making its marks not only in the country but all over the world.Another short film Directed by Raj Pritam More is ''Khisa''(Pocket) ( Marathi with English subtitles,15.31 mins) 2020.PP Cine Production Mumbai Presents in association with Laaltippa Films.Producer by Santosh Maithani and Raj Pritam More.Written by Kailash Waghmare.
From early this short ''Khisa'' won 2 Awards at the Istanbul Film Awards 2020.Best Film and Best Screen play 2 award international awards and In India very prestigious Screenplay Awards at 10th Dada Saheb Phalke Film Festival,New Delhi .India -20 .
Its also a short film qualifies to compete for the prestigious Golden star Awards at the annual live screening gala of IFA,which will be held in Istanbul,Turkey in March 2021.
We happy and humbled to share you our Short film "khisa"(Pocket) has been selected for the Worldwide online Premiere screening at the 9th edition of Dublin International Short Film and Music Festival Ireland to be held from October 9th to11th, 2020. Also, sincere thanks to Florian Zapra(Director -DISFMF) and also official selection at Dublin International Short Film and Music Festival Ireland 2020.
This is the story of a young boy who lives in a remote village in Maharashtra. He decides to get a large pocket stitched for his school shirt, in which he keeps all his precious belongings - petals, coins, marble balls; A pocket, he is proud of. It sets him apart from others his age, whose pockets are not only smaller in comparison but also ordinary and similar to each other in appearance.The little boy does not understand the politics of symbolism that adults engage in, and his pocket soon becomes a point of contention amongst elders in the village ...
This tragic story of the loss of innocence and coming-of-age of a young boy, is ironically symbolic of the times we live in.
Raj Pritam More is visual-fine Indian Contemporary artist live and work in Mumbai.His achievements are, he has many feathers on his cap-from being a 54th National Award winner Lalit Kala Academy New Delhi. Winner of Asia Art Award by EM Art Gallery & a collaborative venture with Korean Govt, Seoul, Korea.Now he directed his first short film ''Khisa''(pocket) and also produces by him self.
Director Statement
The story narrates a social-political contemporary tale on recent time period.
Even today we are more concerned about caste and religion rather then our daily bread. We always love to talk about our history and we have always used our great men for own selfish needs.This short film "Khisa", throws light on these issues.
Raj Pritam More
Director and Produce
short film "khisa"(pocket)
Mumbai
rajmoreartist@gmail.com
Thursday, 10 September 2020
Goosebumps -31 লোমহর্ষক रों ग टे رونگٹے Solo by Mitali Das মিতালী দাস -Nippon Gallery
The human body
becomes a template for me in my art, they become lumps of flesh to be devoured
by beastly creatures with overcharged passions. In a way my work invites the
viewer into a very intimate & indeed erotic encounter with my subjects. The
emotional connection between subject & artist has continued to inspire me.
The works are never maudlin or sentimental-there’s a sort of fiercely &
objective gaze. They are meant to be memento mori, but at the same time they
are gestures of extreme affection & compassion which provide the viewer
with a spectrum of emotional engagement & response. And so when you look at
my work there’s no one response, you do see these subjects in a state of
psychological flux & change. And that is my empathy towards my art.
- Mitali Das
We are Open Today : 11th Sept 2020 / 11am
Goosebumps -31 লোমহর্ষক रों ग टे رونگٹے
Solo by Mitali Das মিতালী দাস
Browse the Sale catalogue online click link https://nippongallery.com/mitali-das-premium-show-nippon/
Wednesday, 19 August 2020
Ray of Hope
ॐ असतो मा सद्गमय।
तमसो मा ज्योतिर्गमय।
मृत्योर्मामृतं गमय ॥
- बृहदारण्यक उपनिषद्
Lead us from Unreality to the
Reality, Lead us from the Darkness to the Light , Lead us from the Fear of
Death to the Knowledge of Immortality
After
World War -II, the world has faced such huge disaster and loss of lives only
now, during this dark phase of Covid-19 pandemic. Being
artists we can feel the unrest, sorrow and misery of people everywhere in the
world. In this difficult situation every human being has become a warrior,
fighting together against this dark period with strong hopes, faith and energy
leading towards light. This paradigm-shifting pandemic has made us realize the
uncertainty, nothingness and completeness in human life.
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| Recent Works by Vilas Shinde |
This
situation also emphasizes the role of hope and faith of man in the infinite
journey of survival of civilizations through various natural and man-made
disasters since ancient times to the modern era.
'A
ray of hope’ presents majorly achromatic artworks of Contemporary artists
coming together to represent their individual approaches and style, that reveal
different aspects of hopes and faith in the context of human survival. In
today's turbulent, uncertain socio-political and economic world, most people from the
common man to the intelligentsia are worried about their future. Even in this
difficult situation, the creative artist is trying to keep the flame of empathy
alive in the society with the rod of positive energy, with his devotion to art,
aspiration for life and hope for a bright future.
In
art history, the absence and presence of light is used to represent spiritual
energy, divinity, gods and goddess and so on. Brahman in Indian Vedic
literature, Chinese theory of Yin and Yang, Buddhist theory of Shunyavada,
The Theory of Big bang discuss about the 'nothingness ' and 'completeness' that
relates to black and white. Scientifically, black and white do not have
specific wavelengths. Instead, white light contains all wavelengths of visible
lights. Black, on the other hand, is the absence of visible light. At the
same time in color theory, white is the absence of all color and black is the
presence of all color. A visual play using black and white together creates
neutrality and infiniteness.
This online exhibition will be an opportunity for talented, budding, young artists from India to showcase their art with senior artists to boost their energy. The works of all these talented artists working in various styles of contemporary Indian art will be readily available to art lovers and art collectors from all over the world.
I am grateful to Senior Contemporary artists Sudhir
Patwardhan, Dilip Ranade, Vilas Shinde, Ravindra Salve for accepting an
invitation for this show. I am also thankful to all Artists who responded to
invitation and open call for this Exhibition.
Shardul Kadam
Painter and Lecturer, Sir J.J.
School of Art, Mumbai
RAY OF HOPE' at Nippon Gallery.
Ray of Hope' is a collective show of 37 artists from various parts of country.
We would love to see you all there for the opening on 20th August 11am.
Live www.nippongallery.com
Ray of Hope - Curator: Shardul KadamStarts : 11 am / 20th August 2020Ends : 07pm / 10th September 2020Online Sale Starts : 11am ( Indian time) / Book your ArtworksEmail : info@nippongallery.com
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Sunday, 16 August 2020
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