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The Kolkata new - next Breed
16 Artist, more than 70 Artworks, explores new ways of artworks.
We assure you a phenomenal experience of the new media …
Nippon Gallery
Presents
The Kolkata New- Next Breed
Curated by
Moumita Sarkar
Sale Starts Live : 11am
20 to 27 Jan 2021
On - Screen display show - www.nippongallery.com
Shahper born in 1984 is Syed Sarvat Ali Jafri’s first given name. It means “the feather in the shah’s crown” a name that descends from his ancestral tradition and a lineage linking directly to the once glamourous Awadh Empire of the 17th Century. His city, Faizabad - meaning the “City of Gardens” in Persian – carries the scares of the lost glory where the magnificent gates stand crumbling among collapsing palaces, temples, mosques, boisterous souks and bazaars that continue to thrive alongside the disintegrating Persian style architectural wonders that once made the city a pearl of the east.
Waqt- e- namaz Size : 21×25 in Media : Sculpture = Clay, Cement, Wood Year : 2019
Faizabad despite its lost glory
remains the inspiration for Syed Ali Jafri’s multifaceted artistic practice. He
is one of a few contemporary artists residing in the city which is now home to
100 million people, many of whom are descendants of refugees from Punjab, Sind
and others far off lands that came to settle in the flourishing city over the
centuries.
The dramatic turning point for
Faizabad came on December 6th, 1992 when Hindu Nationalists destroyed the Babri
Mosque in Ayodhya - Faizabad, next door to the Artists’ centuries old family
home. Syed Ali witnessed the riots and the ensuing bloodbath firsthand and has
since lived through the subsequent rift and polarization this event caused
within his community. The riots - and the politics that flared them - split the
society like a surgical intervention
separating the syncretic culture of Hindus and Muslims and turned neighbours
into irreconcilable enemies, destined to live in proximity.
The political realities of caste,
creed and unemployment are powerful forces of destruction chipping away at the
few remnants of a common glorious past and is rewriting the city’s
history. The pain of Faizabad - visible on the city’s decaying walls - is
one Syed Ali shares with the abandoned structures of his town that mirror
history. A city built on artistic practice, a tradition of poetry and
philosophy is today, more than ever,
demanding that its inhabitants address the existing reality. The political party of India triumph in May 2019 declared the Hindu Nationalist project a priority and thus
once more reinvigorated religious hostilities that threaten to definitively
erase spaces that maintain a collective future.
Syed Sarvat Ali Jafri believes
that the only power at his disposal to confront the emerging political reality
is Art. His personal space is a form of dissent that is optimistic and inlaid
with aesthetics demanding to engage in peaceful communal conversation. Soliciting dialogue through visual scapes -
which is essential to the Ganga- Jamuni tradition of Avadh - aims to mellow the
schism of politics and community. He is adamant that the preservation of
what is left of his culture is urgently needed and he has thus devised multiple
innovative techniques, formats and conceptual principles to deal with local
complexities.
EXHIBITION : Garden Of Remembrance
“Our minds view the world through the prisms of philosophies we believe
in, mine is the wisdom of contesting conflict and bowing out of conflicts that
define humanity today.” Syed Sarvat
Ali Jafri
Syed Sarvat Ali Jafri draws on the
contemporaneity of the syncretic Islamic visual culture that he inherited
through his lineage that imbibed the visual elements of Hinduism and Sufism. He
comes from a tradition of Shia poets who used poetry as a form of a narrative
retelling of history and pain.
In this show he explores multiple
artistic formats that together constitute the different aspects of the
narrative of peaceful struggle against marginalization. His works conceptually
replaces the loss of 17 century architecture in his city to urban chaos,
politics and time. Accordingly, the Artist integrates architecture into his
creative vocabulary through the vantage point of his familiarity with the ruins
of Shia tombs, mosques, bazaars and city-gates that dot Faizabad.
'Sajdagah' or Turbah
Series of 18 Clay Tablets
Sculptures
For local Shi’ite families
scattered around the globe, the clay tablets known as 'Sajdagah'
or “turbah” - meaning soil in Arabic – represent soil from Iraq's
Shi'ite Muslim Karbala shrine. They are a blessing, an object of remembrance,
even a cure for sickness. The Karbala tablets or 'Sajdagah' are used during
prayers by Shia Muslims worldwide. They
embody the tradition of making shrines to Imam Ali and his family during the
month of Mohurrum and incorporate symbols such as the Panjatan, Taziya and
Taboot. Elements such as a water carrier, Hazrat Abbas's hand etc..
The tablets provide certain metaphors
of longing and restitution.
Syed Sarvat Ali Jafri innovated a
technique whereby he crushes the clay used to envelope cement tiles and wood as
a form of mortar to construct miniature shrines in ode to the lost architecture
and culture of Faizabad.
18Sculpture Clay works
3 Metal wheels
15 water colour Urdu Calligraphy
Through Urdu alphabet, names and
memories as well as Persian words that form a part of our local creole Syed Ali
Jafri constructs poetic narratives of resistance drawing from a tradition of
Persian and Urdu poetry which was once common in Faizabad.
Calligraphy writing being and
ancient form of art allows the artist to reanimate through a conceptual
practice the tenets of Islamic Visual Culture. Incorporating multiple aspects
of his ancestral traditions is a form of pacifist dissent against the growing
communalism that is rapidly overtaking Faizabad’s daily environment.
By
Jihan El - Tahri
Nippon
Gallery Presents
Solo
Show
Garden
of Remembrance
Recent
works
Syed
Ali Sarvat Jafri
Curated
by
Jihan
El – Tahri
Explore
Sculptures and Calligraphy
Sale
Starts Live
10
to 17 Jan 2021
On
- Screen display Solo show
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India's Marathi short film''Khisa''(Pocket) is now making its way to India after acclaimed so many international awards. ''Khisa''short film Official Selected in Indian Panorama for 51st International film festival of India, Goa 2021.
The short film is Directed by Raj Pritam More. Produced by PP Cine Production Mumbai and Laaltippa Films. The film has been shot at Akola ( Vidarbha).
Khisa 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 .
Khisa is the directorial debut short film of the director Raj Pritam More which has got so many international awards, nominations and official selection. He quoted Khisa is the story of the loss of innocence and coming-of-age of a young boy, is ironically symbolic of the times we live in. Khisa is a heart touching tale of a boy which will definitely give the audience a different perspective.He further said that Marathi movies are reaching new heights every day. Marathi content is making its marks not only in the country but all over the world.This 15 minute film will make a place in everyone's heart.
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| Raj Pritam More |
From early this, short film ''Khisa'' won 2 Awards at the Istanbul Film Awards 2020.Best Film and Best Screenplay, 2 award international awards and in India very prestigious Screenplay Awards at 10th Dada Saheb Phalke Film Festival,New Delhi .India -20 .
Khisa also 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.
Also got a nomination for Best international Short Film and Best Director at Dublin International short and music festival 2020.Khisa also shown at world's premier online screening at (DISFMF) Dublin International short and music festival 20.
Khisa got 2 prestigious awards at Mumbai International cult Film Festival. BEST DEBUT DIRECTOR (MICFF GOLD) and BEST ACTOR IN SUPPORTING ROLE (SPECIAL JURY MENTION) . And it's also Official selection at Montreal Independent Film Festival Canada 2020 and 26th (KIFF) Kolkata International Film Festival 20. Official Selection at Dioroma International film festival 2020. Official Selection at (Jiff) Jaipur international film festival 2020.
Official Selection at Singapore international film festival 2020.
It's also Official Selection at Dioroma Indie Shorts Awards Buenos Aires, Argentina 2020.
''Khisa'' is also selected at Dharamshala International Film Festival and set to world premiere at the prestigious Dharamshala International Film Festival.
Written by Kailash Waghmare ,Short film editor Santosh Maithani, Director of Photography Simarjit Singh Suman, Music by Parijat Chakraborty, Sound recordist by Kushal Sarda. Kailash Waghmare,Meenakshi Rathod,Shruti Madhydeep ,Dr Sheshpal Ganvir and Vedant Shrisagar (child actor) are in the lead roles.
Amit Bankar’s mountainous forms on paper outnumber the naturally occurring but the overall structures, which can expand in profligate fashion like brambles, testify to the artist’s feeling for nature. Although the paintings by Kranti Bankar don’t feature any natural stone their effect rely on execution of charcoal on canvas, her subject matter clearly involves our relationship to the natural world. But a paean to nature isn’t the only thing on offer in “The Winter Show.” There is so much to be learned by looking at how the works of artist couples overlap and diverge.
The connection to organic growth and the interdependence of humans and animals in Santoshkumar’s work, as well as the sensitive attention to surfaces throughout, has a cumulative effect of slowing down your thoughts, heightening your senses, gently sweeping away the anxiety that increasingly permeates our thoughts. Perhaps this soothing effect has something to do with the handmade tactility of the work and the absence of all things electronic. All you need to make something worthy of attention, these artists remind us, is a rescued fragment of the natural world and a pair of hands.
Gunjan Shrivastava employs an abstract language that draws on natural phenomenon, but their differences are just as evident as she composes in planes and pursues translucency, and favors linear motifs and dramatic value shifts. Pervading her work is a conflation of the abstract and the everyday: her folded planar shards evoke the geometry of crystal formations, while her titles frequently allude to quotidian events and basic human relationships.
Pravin Utge explains that the essence of his work is to celebrate and sublimate the ordinary and noble life of Indian women. There are also some nice echoes between the two couples and the women he paints. Pramod Apet paints old cherished world and childhood memories which are now in the process of vanishing little by little. Also noticeable is the way in which Utge and Apet sometimes use very wide formats to envelope their viewers in a sublime expanse.
Over the last year there have been numerous exhibitions at Nippon but we still have some catching up to do when it comes to this group of artists. Among its other virtues, “The Winter Show” is a welcome opportunity to discover the work of 9 Indian artists whose work deserves to be better known. As you make your way through this exhibition, which offers a wonderfully generous selection of work, it’s also great to see more of the gradually emerging oeuvres of Artist which makes the botanical dimension of the show fascinating.
by
Moumita Sarkar
Artist/ Curator / Writer
Kolkata
The WINTER ART SHOW
Live : 15 to 31 December - 2020
Online Group show
Ashok Hinge I Pramod Apet I Santoshkumar R. Patil
Gunjan Shrivastava I Amit Bankar I Pravin Utge
Prasanna Musale I Rupesh Pawar I Kranti Bankar
Venue : www.nippongallery.com
