History Lab and the Elegy of Visceral Incantations | T. V. Santhosh @ Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum

Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum in collaboration with The Guild presents History Lab and the Elegy of Visceral Incantations by T. V. Santhosh. This body of work, distinct from his earlier mode but forming a continuity with his artistic preoccupations, offers the viewer a look into the artist’s careful approach to historical and present conflicts, their continuities and ironies. History Lab incorporates the artist’s attention to detail into his keen consciousness of contemporary events, drawing inspiration from world events, his own early roots in art, activism and historical reference to create a compelling and cogent body of work. The exhibition will run from 14 December 2023 to 11 February, 2024, at the Special Projects Space, Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum in Mumbai. 

Artist: T V Santosh

The exhibition will run from 14 December 2023 to 11 February, 2024, at the Special Projects Space, Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum in Mumbai.

Recent work by T. V. Santhosh

“One of the sculptures in this show, titled History Lab IV, is about a process of understanding history from the point of view of progress as defined by industrial and technological advancement, and how these high points of advancement in turn become yardsticks to measure the extent of damage caused by man against its own kind. The history of war could be read as a parallel phenomenon to the development of weapons technology. History has its multiple complex narratives…” – T. V. Santhosh

About the Artist T. V. Santhosh, born in Kerala, India, 1968, obtained his graduate degree in painting from Kalabhavan, Santiniketan and his master’s degree in Sculpture from the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda. His art cites histories of violence, injustices, war, terrorism and media propaganda. His art practice has stood as a strong commentary on the current social and political crisis of our lives. Santhosh’s works have been shown widely in museums and biennales. Some of his museum shows include Lokame Tharavadu (The World is One Family), curated by Bose Krishnamachari, Kochi Biennale Foundation, 2021; forming in the pupil of an eye, curated by Sudarshan Shetty, Kochi-Muziris Biennale, 2016; The Great Game, curated by Marco Meneguzzo and Mazdak Faiznia, National Pavilion of Iran, 56th Venice Biennale, 2015; Making History, Colombo Art Biennale, 2014; Heritage Transport Museum, New Delhi, 2013; WAR ZONE – Indian Contemporary Art, Artemons Contemporary, Das Kunstmuseum, Austria, 2012; Critical Mass: Contemporary Art from India, curated by Tami Katz-Freiman and Rotem Ruff, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel, 2012; 11th Havana Biennial, 2012; ÍNDIA- LADO A LADO, curated by Tereza de Arruda, SESC, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2012. Santhosh’s select solo shows include Common Wall, Grosvenor Vadehra, London, 2014; The Land, Nature Morte, Berlin, 2011; Burning Flags, Aicon Gallery, London, 2010; Blood and Spit, Jack Shainman Gallery, 2009; Living with a Wound, Grosvenor Vadehra, London, 2009; A Room to Pray at Avanthay Contemporary, Zurich, 2008; Countdown, Nature Morte, Delhi, 2008: all in collaboration with The Guild; Countdown, The Guild, Mumbai, 2008. Many of his works are in important institutions and private collections. His art practice has been widely written about, including in two books, T. V. Santhosh: Unresolved Stories (The Guild Art Gallery, 2008) and Blood and Spit: Living with a Wound (The Guild and Jack Shainman Gallery, 2009). Other catalogues with solo shows include One Hand Clapping/Siren, Living with a Wound, and False Promises. 

Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum ( image google)

About Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum The Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum is Mumbai’s first museum, established in 1857, and is the erstwhile Victoria and Albert Museum, Bombay. The Museum building and collections underwent a comprehensive, UNESCO-Award winning restoration, spearheaded by the Mumbai Chapter of the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH), and supported by the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai and the Jamnalal Bajaj Foundation. The project involved an institutional overhaul and training an all new staff. Since it opened to the public in 2008, the Museum has pioneered contemporary art which is presented in the extraordinary 19th-century building, one of the finest in India, in an attempt to rethink the cannon and challenge colonial and Enlightenment precepts. The Museum was built to showcase the city’s contemporary art and craftsmanship through a rare collection of fine and decorative arts of India. The Museum’s robust exhibition and outreach programme invites artists to engage with these collections and archives and interrogate its founding principles. Over 85 exhibitions have been presented, which include collaborations with both local and international institutions and organisations. Past exhibitions have showcased contemporary creative practices in design, crafts and textiles, architecture, urbanism, and film and video art. To mark its 150th anniversary in 2022, the Museum brought out a book titled ‘Mumbai: A City Through Objects, 101 Stories from the Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum’, edited by the Director, Tasneem Zakaria Mehta. The book was co-published with Harper Design, Harper Collins’ new design imprint, and has won several awards. For more information about the Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Mumbai City Museum, please visit www.bdlmuseum.org Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bdlmuseum/ Facebook: www.facebook.com/BDLMuseum Twitter: https://twitter.com/BDLMuseum Contact: +91 22 23741234 The exhibition is on view at: Special Projects Space, Museum Plaza, Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, 91-A, Veermata Jijabai Bhonsale Udyan (Rani Bagh), Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Road, Byculla (E), Mumbai – 400027 For press enquiries, please contact: Ruta Waghmare Baptista: rwaghmare@bdlmuseum.org Kindly note that the main Museum building is currently closed due to essential repairs.

 About The Guild The Guild was established in 1997 with an aim to function as a semi-institutional space within the bustling art-hub of Mumbai, India. Since its inception, it has been providing a platform for discursive practices, innovation and experimentation in contemporary art. The Guild represents artists of diverse generations who have brought in robust dialogue within and across their disciplines. The gallery has held major retrospectives of K. P. Reji, Sudhir Patwardhan, Navjot Altaf and G. R. Iranna in collaboration with premier national art centres, and published a number of books with essays by preeminent critics and curators on contemporary Indian artists, such as Sudhir Patwardhan, Navjot Altaf, Jyoti Bhatt, K.G. Subramanyan, A. Ramachandran and T. V. Santhosh, amongst others. 

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What Is Underneath?

Five artists create mesmerizing, dreamlike world in What is Underneath?, the five artist group known as Urge exhibiting at Nippon Art Gallery through December 12th; refer to things that exist underneath of nature which cannot be explained by conventional means. Each of the artists Santa Rakshit, Shekhar Bhattacharjee, Namrata Sneha, Sumedh Kumar and Jigna Gaudana create a representational world that has been twisted and turned in dreamlike scenes that fill one either with anxiety or sunlit peace. The artists are in uncharacteristic harmony with one another. For starters, they all embrace a saturated palette. Their works representational strangeness, which evokes the unconscious through deliciously skewed illustrations of concepts of things seen and unseen, relates them to Surrealist dream like images.

Recent artworks Shekhar Bhattacharjee

Shekhar Bhattacharjee paintings conjure the transcendentalism of Ralph Waldo Emerson in small figures within a lusciously abstracted, paranormal forest in the style of Paul Klee. Borrowing Klee’s language of abstraction, a charming and intense offshoot of his painterly vocabulary Shekhar turns Klee’s forms inside out in a spiritual landscape saturated with color and form, made with oil paste and ink on paper, unlocks a vision of a new landscape of dense forest that divides up the canvas vertically using trees outlined in a cerulean blue with the boldness of spray-painted orange and yellow. The painted forest is deep, dark and impenetrable. The mysterious forest is a mass of fantastically messy yellow, green and orange spray paint that defines a canopy held up by trees outlined in a luminous periwinkle moon; the work centers on a tree whose bark is a fauve masterpiece, with tiny flecks in a myriad of colors surrounded by the most intense ultramarine blue. His bold abstraction is overlaid with marks and images that have a graphic sensibility and presence; the drawings make one think he is tagging his own work. One can only imagine what narrative is at play here. That sense of being a privileged, silent observer in nature has to be one of the defining human experiences. As a teenager, he used to wander in the miles of pinewood behind his parents’ house, from the beginning the svelte and songful shepherds and nymphs don’t have a lot in common with actual agricultural workers they’re obviously projections of the poets into a fantasy of beneficent nature. Maybe what you’re up to is to insist on that powerful felt relationship between man and nature, whatever we may mean by that at a given moment without pretending that all is well and the genre can continue to operate in denial.

Recent artworks Namrata Sneha

In Namrata Snehas’ painting, twisted and playful compositional elements show her intense relationship to Pop Art and such representational artist as David Hockney. Spring is yet to come is a large and wonderful landscape of an abstracted form that has been distorted by the artist. Made up of nine small canvases measuring one foot by one foot, the wiggly line therefore is the beginning and essence of the painting: a trajectory through space and time. As if this were not enough, Namrata’s paint and color are rich and saturated reds, greens, and yellows as well as blues. It’s an expression of excitement in the discovery of new place and a fresh way of painting and depicting space that is so powerful and engaging. One of the largest paintings in the show, it anchors the canvas with an expansive spring-acid green, punctuated by dots that seem to have been made by placing the mouths of multicolor tubes of paint directly into the negative space of the composition, effectively kissing the canvas. These painterly passages are invented to palpably ground the auras she creates in her canvases. They mix optically over a cracked and milky surface to create a hovering presence in the center of the canvas. It’s the kind of mystical in terms of its formal transformation epiphany that Namrata anticipates throughout her canvas. She employs a wide array of paint applications. In this instance, such a painterly mixed bag helps to phenomenally ground her tree/subjects, and creates equilibrium with the explicit, sometimes illustrative pictorialism of their branching figures. As in her aforementioned dotting technique, Namrata actively embellishes different shifts of focus in her paintings with thick scumbling, translucent washes and dry brush of kaleidoscopic chroma, and dabbing and dripping of thinned oil paints. The assuredness with which she weaves these disparate approaches together into coherent visionary images is impressive. Accordingly, one gets the chance both to witness her transformative visions and to participate in the rituals of their making. Her work deploys a more generalized and perhaps more sober template of twining vegetal daemons similar, though much more brut, to those seen in decorative friezes in classical ornament. This interweaving syntax lends these paintings a compositional unity that can easily support the tension between pictorial symbol and painterly substance that seems to be the artist’s métier.

Recent artworks Santa Rakshit

Santa Rakshits’ Postcards from Post Box, oil on canvas, series is a lot more abstract than her: thickly painted black lines, outlined in white, dance around the canvas in an enchanting array of drips and dabs of various sizes and viscosities that hint at landscape. Representing the landscape feels urgent now because it’s under threat. According to Santa she used to attend these visualization meditations where one would be led through imaginary landscapes, actively using our minds to conjure what was being described by the trusted leader. One evening a few years ago she had a particularly vivid sense that the concept of landscape was her own skin, and there were roots and tubers growing beneath it, swelling and bursting through the surface. In her vision the earth bled and screamed. ‘I am in mourning, as a lot of us are, for damaged ecosystems and disappearing animal species.’ As with the paintings, where her toxic acrylics performed a kind of transubstantiation her forests are indexical floriations: sinuous strokes are branches; spills can be glitters of leaves; spray paint, fog; protruding paint-licks, thorns, ticks or mosquitoes. Santas’ experimental approach to mark-making thick or thin, macro or micro, tight or loose, brushed, sprayed or sponged goes for both forests and figures. The precisionist symbolism echo in Santas’ crisp ferns and fluorescent lepidoptera, scintillating against a nocturne of blue, yellow, red and black. Santa points out all the ways in which the land is both interpreted and shaped by the human mind. She talks about the Dutch origin of the word landscape and how wishful thinking has been embedded in it all along. The word first appeared in the late sixteenth century, and it meant painting or drawing a view of natural scenery. If landscape is a framing and representing of nature, it cements the idea that nature is an invention of the psyche, an illusion of tame and wild, leisure and threat, life and death. Yet rogue textures icky drips and thorny bumps interpreting the most beautiful passages of Kashmiri poet Agha Shahid Ali reminding us that nature, just like art, is a messy and dangerous concoction.

 

Recent artworks Jigan Gaudana

These new paintings by Jigna Gaudana, like her previous bodies of work, arrive in a headlong rush of invention festooned upon a canny theme, in this case the female body in nature about the feminist reckoning with that moribund tradition as well as the post-feminist inversion of that reckoning the figures themselves can be all but incidental in Jignas’ overgrown miasmas of cactus, wildflowers, whiskery stalks and impenetrable leafage. A more occult art history comes to mind in these unkempt, unruly wildernesses, one which begins where the babes-in-the-woods tradition itself, after giving birth to modernism, withers away. Jignas’ everyday ecstatic includes luminous beings, spirits of the self whose spare, archaic profiles float among the flowers. Faces, flowers, birds and weeds are painted with a kind of folk-art zeal while the cerulean forest behind, solidly modeled then dematerialized by dancing layers of sprayed pigment, is appealingly contrary in color, scale and attack. In Grieving Woman, a lone woman in a classical pose is incised in white against the mottled background like a fading figure. Jigna, however, putting the brakes on such skillful seduction according to her restless temperament, encloses this exquisite scene in a dark, seething knot of numerous cactus plants that branches out of her body as brut as the figures are delicate. One of the most interesting things about pastoral poetry is that it is the fantasy of urban poets so fantasies of nature are a counterpoint to a more urban experience. There is a sense of nostalgia around that; and as you say, the characters and settings are poetic projections. The utopian nature experience exits the grasp of the poets’ minds just as it turns into words. The Stories Within in many of Jigna’s compositions is centripetally directed, often with a diminution of form, towards the center of the canvas, which has the effect of a vortex of maternal origin: a cosmic matrix of regenerative power. Such a symbolically loaded destination might be read as cliché if it were not for the artist’s ability to keep the association subliminal, as she does.

Recent artworks by Sumedh Kumar

Sumedh Kumar’s Blue Smoke Series, drawings in pastel on handmade paper, are self- portraits that have run amuck into abstraction. His paintings express a different kind of cross between figuration and abstraction, more related to the body. Although the forms that fill his paintings are not figures, they have an anatomical presence that calls up the Surrealists. When he is painting he is trying to build up irritating problems in layers of color and texture. He spills, puddles and scumbles to make atmospheres that range from tarry to luminous while being as emphatic as he can about the radiance and light sources that don’t follow any logic aside from the logic of paint and the rules the painting produces within itself. He feels like he is digging for the scenes, isolating forms to make figures, forms, and a sense of both encrusted surface and receding space. He knows vaguely what he wants to find, but he is teasing it out, searching for a story like a diviner reading tea leaves. Gestures become people; they are part of the swamp of marks that veer into the realm of things. Mess coheres into specificity and leaks back into mess. He knows when the painting is done when he thinks it might be breathing. A visual split in half with an intense blue silhouette of a smoker’s thought and pain his body feels due to atrocities. A man standing in a parallelogram of blue brushstrokes with legs tied to the pole, creating a tension that is further complicated by marks that delineate an architectural space on the painting a tonsured head of a man and a woman head or a torso not fully articulated by the rounded forms that fill out the composition. His forms evoke monsters within the body, as in Medusa, whose snake-like path also reads as a colon. It’s a scene you might see in pain. The risk of consuming the smoke is parallel to viewing Sumedh’s art; he creates works that don’t feel safe.

The inventiveness of these five artists’ works, in which they envisage their respective worlds on a small scale, is mesmerizing as they intentionally evoke such symbolism, yet captivating the viewer primarily in muscular, painterly compositions that flex their energies ecstatically outward toward the audience. A description can have the power to prospectively modify experience. To describe or name a previously unacknowledged beauty can amplify its possibility in the future for others; it can dilate the horizon of beauty and hopefully of the imaginable. To assume that experience is shaped by the evolution of our ingenious and unlikely metaphors is also helpful to these artists; it can enhance our motivation and cultivate enabling operational fictions, like freedom and power. We are provided another reason to thicken the dark privacy of feeling into art with What is Underneath?

 

Abhijeet Gondkar

November 2023, Mumbai

 

Their works representational strangeness,

which evokes the unconscious through deliciously

skewed illustrations of concepts of things seen

and unseen, relates them to Surrealist dream like images

- Abhijeet Gondkar

Show: What Is Underneath?

by

Group artist

Shekhar Bhattacharjee

Santa Rakshit

Jigna Gaudana

Sumedh Kumar

Namrata Sneha

Preview: 12th Dec 2023

Time 6pm to 8.30pm

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Date: 12th to 18th Dec 2023

Time: 3to7pm / at Nippon

RSVP: Santa Rakshit M: +91 78742 14449

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Exploring 'Myth and its Aftermaths': A Unique Artistic Journey at Aakriti Art Gallery's Artist Residency and Bronze Sculpture Workshop

 Kolkata, India - Aakriti Art Gallery proudly announces an exclusive Artist Residency and Bronze

Sculpture Workshop, conceptualized and curated by Delhi based independent Art Historian Dr. Soujit Das, a former Assistant Professor of Government College of Art and Craft Calcutta. This creative event, centered around the theme 'Myth and its Aftermaths: An Exploration of Contemporary Sculptural

Practices,' is set to take place from the 6th to 11th of December, 2023.

The picturesque Bachhawat Estate located in Madhupur, Badu Road, Barasat, North 24 Parganas, West Bengal, India; will serve as the creative hub for this distinctive artist residency. This residency will foster creative and intellectual dialogue as established artists will come together to explore the profound interplay between myths, society, and politics in today's capricious world. The participating artists - a stellar line-up comprising Aditya Basak, Akhil Chandra Das, Atin Basak, Chaitali Chanda, Chhatrapati Dutta, Debabrata De, Jayashree Chakravarty, Mansoor Ali, Mukulendu Pathak, Shanta Samanta, Shanti Swaroopini, Subrata Biswas, Sudip Roy, and Tapas Biswas, will lead a thought-provoking discourse through their sculptural expressions.

The theme for the residency draws inspiration from Roland Barthes' seminal work 'Mythologies,' inviting artists to unravel the evolving nature of myths and their profound impact on contemporary cultural landscapes. The curator emphasizes, "Myths are not relics of the past but live on as influential cultural forces, shaping and being shaped by our complex global society." During the residency, artists will delve into the realms of appropriation and deconstruction of myths, challenging conventional narratives and revealing the hidden symbols and ideologies that shape our perceptions. The works produced will aim to dismantle established polysemous narratives, empowering viewers to question and re-evaluate the stories that shape their reality. Moreover, the exhibition aims to underscore the global nature of myths in an interconnected world dominated by technology and media. The fruits of the collective creative labour will be exhibited next year along with a publication authored by the Curator, documenting the entire process. This experience promises to be a visual and intellectual treat, offering a unique perspective on how myths continue to influence and evolve in our lives.

Aakriti Art Gallery and the participating artists will host an Open Day Session for general public, artists and Press on 10th December between 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM at the Bachhawat Estate.

For press inquiries and additional information

Please contact:

Mr Sumit Das

Gallery Assistant

Aakriti Art Gallery Kolkata

12/3a, Orbit Enclave, Picasso Bithi, Mullick Bazar, Park Street area,

Kolkata, West Bengal 700017

Phone: +91 – 79806 13424

About Aakriti Art Gallery Kolkata: Aakriti Art Gallery Kolkata is a premier platform dedicated to

showcasing modern and contemporary art, fostering creative dialogues, and promoting artistic

innovation within India's cultural landscape. Through exhibitions, residencies, and workshops, Aakriti

Art Gallery continues to champion artistic excellence and cultural exchange.

2005 Pomogrante Book

My Paintings gain life after their sale; else they lie dead in my studio.

My paintings are not showpieces. You cannot decorate your drawing room to make it look beautiful, but you can decorate your mind with it to make your body beautiful.

Most of my time is spent in traveling by local trains in Mumbai. I prefer it to any other mode of traveling. It is the institute for me. Thousands of minds brush with each other every single moment. People have their own news, views, opinions, reactions, sometimes resulting in mass appeal. I can view the emotional and practical reaction of the fellow citizens by interacting with them and I think they are all creative minds and provide lot of essence to my creation. I see a person trading in vegetables or scraps has more perfect knowledge of economics and politics of the world. He doesn't need a degree or big fat books to update his knowledge; the everyday struggle is guide for him. That's something different which you find only in local trains. It also represents mini India with its clashes and unity projected from time to time. People converse and argue as if discussing the issue in the world conference.
Variation is but natural in my paintings. Just as Heraclitus had rightly said, ‘It is not possible to step twice in the same river.’ My paintings too are most spontaneous expressions rather than well planned process so you will always find variety in the work. Every work has different appeal and presentation method, setting different moods with use of topic relevant colors, forms and style. Painting is not just passion for me; it is a part of my life. I paint when I get stimulated to do so. There are times when for days together I do not paint at all.
I gradually was introduced to Galileo, Heraclitus, Osho, Mirza Galib, Kabir, and Lao Tuz and their lives. Their philosophies have greater impact on my work and my self being. Pablo Picasso is great artist; I worked as a volunteer for one month in NGMA, Mumbai because of passion for Pablo Picasso, during his paintings exhibition, just to be close to his art work. Though his work has good impact on my life, but it does not influence my work. I cannot even follow foot step of my own work. I am going to be a part of 2008 BNHS Greenscape-2 Art Auction by Pheroza Godrej. I am also part of the group show by Harmony Art Foundation 2008 and many things more. Life is full of works!

The artist lives and works in Mumbai

2005 Pomogrante Book by Tathi Premchand

 

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Date: 16th Nov to 5th Dec  2023Flora Fountain, Fort, Mumbai - 400 001

Invitation: Do come / Save Date :14 this month.

NABHI  group of artists invites you for 'THE INNER JOURNEY' 

Nude & Erotic  artwork (chapter I)

Group Art Show.

Preview: Sat, 14 October- 6pm onwards 

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Miniature Postage Stamp Masterpieces.

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To present a combination of philosophy, art, and history we bring to showcase Miniature Postage Stamp Masterpieces.

The concept of ‘Licking/Tricking not Allowed’ provides a perspective to selected artists across the globe to manifest their perceptions on the postal tickets and stick (exhibit) them on the gallery walls while proffering a message to the spectators.

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61.8 करोड़ की पेंटिंग, मौत के 82 साल बाद बिकी इस मशहूर चित्रकार की कलाकृति, जानिए खरीदने वाले ने क्या देखा

 नई दिल्ली. दुनिया में कई नायाब और बेशकीमती चीजें हैं इनमें हीरे से लेकर पेंटिंग तक शामिल हैं. लेकिन, क्या आप अंदाजा लगा सकते हैं कि किसी पेंटिंग की क्या हो सकती है. यह सवाल इसलिए क्योंकि भारत की मशहूर चित्रकार अमृता शेरगिल की एक पेंटिंग लाखों नहीं करोड़ों में बिकी है.

अमृता शेरगिल की “द स्टोरी टेलर” पेंटिंग ग्लोबल ऑक्शन में 61.8 करोड़ रुपये में बिकी है. इसके साथ ही यह किसी भारतीय पेंटर की बिकने वाली सबसे महंगी कलाकृति बन गई है. शेरगिल की 1937 की कलाकृति “द स्टोरी टेलर” यहां शनिवार को सैफ्रन आर्ट के ‘इवनिंग सेल: मॉडर्न आर्ट’ में हुई नीलामी में बेची गई.

क्यों खास है यह पेंटिंग?
भारतीय चित्रकार अमृता शेरगिल को 20वीं सदी की शुरुआत के सबसे महान चित्रकारों में से एक माना जाता है. अमृता शेरगिल से पहले किसी भारतीय चित्रकार की नीलामी में बिकी सबसे महंगी पेंटिंग एसएच रज़ा की ’गेस्टेशन’ थी, जिसकी कीमत ₹51.75 करोड़ रुपये थी. अमृता की ‘द स्टोरी टेलर’ को ऑयल-ऑन-कैनवास मास्टरपीस माना जाता है. इसमें कैनवस पर ऑयल पेंट्स का इस्तेमाल हुआ है. पेंटिंग में एक गांव का परिदृश्य है. जिसमें कुछ महिलाएं बैठी हैं.

अमृता शेरगिल 

इस नीलामी में एम. एफ. हुसैन, वी.सी. गायतोंडे, जैमिनी रॉय और एफएस सूजा समेत विभिन्न कलाकारों की 70 से अधिक पेंटिंग्स पेश की गईं. पिछले महीने रजा की 1989 की कलाकृति “गेस्टेशन” मुंबई में स्थित नीलामी घर पुंडोले ने 51.75 करोड़ रुपये में बेची थी, जो नीलामी में बेची गई अब तक की सबसे महंगी भारतीय कलाकृति बनी थी.

कौन थीं अमृता शेरगिल
सैफ्रन आर्ट के सीईओ और सह-संस्थापक दिनेश वजीरानी ने कहा, “हमें इस सितंबर में नई दिल्ली में हमारी ईवनिंग सेल के कई कलाकारों के रिकॉर्ड स्थापित करने की खुशी है. सबसे महत्वपूर्ण बात यह है कि अमृता शेरगिल की ‘द स्टोरी टेलर’ को मिली रिकॉर्ड कीमत भारतीय कला बाजार में एक महत्वपूर्ण मील का पत्थर है.”

बता दें कि अमृता शेरगिल को इस दुनिया को छोड़े 80 साल से ज्यादा हो गए हैं. लंबी बीमारी के बाद 1941 में लाहौर में उनका निधन हो गया था. हैरानी की बात है कि जिस वक्त उन्होंने इस दुनिया को छोड़ा उनकी उम्र महज 28 साल थी.

भारतीय चित्रकार अमृता शेरगिल को 20वीं सदी की शुरुआत के सबसे महान चित्रकारों में से एक माना जाता है. उनकी “द स्टोरी टेलर” पेंटिंग ग्लोबल ऑक्शन में 61.8 करोड़ रुपये में बिकी है.

Source: https://hindi.news18.com/news/

Animalia. Forays from Los Angeles to Mumbai 10.09.2023 - 07.01.2024

Darmstadt, 13.09.2023: Since Sunday, 10.09.2023, the Kunsthalle Darmstadt is presenting the exhibition Animalia. Forays from Los Angeles to Mumbai. Until 07.01.2024, the relationship between humans and animals is the focus of a presentation in which are participating 35 artists from North and South America, India, Pakistan and Europe. 

Symbols of Migrations Installation by Smita Kinkale 

While the devastating exploitation of Planet Earth seems to be proceeding inexorably, many species of animals are threatened with extinction and entire ecosystems are disappearing, animals are more visible than ever in contemporary art. What is the basis for this newly-awakened study of animals? How is it different than earlier manifestations? Raising questions of this sort, Animalia. Forays from Los Angeles to Mumbai investigates our relationship to animals in all its contradictions and asks what role art plays therein.

Recent painting by Ratnadeep Gopal Adivrekar 
Ratnadeep Adivrekar’s works deals with ancient Indian philosophical belief that a part of the whole ‘Brahmanasi’ resides in all living things, which forms the ‘atman’ hence many animals are venerated and dense with symbolism

Offering a broad, geographically wide-ranging selection of artistic positions, the exhibition shows how diverse the approaches to this theme can be. An examination of the field during our preparations for this exhibition showed that certain approaches and preferences repeat themselves among the artists. The course through the exhibition was divided into four chapters in accordance with several clearly recognizable, major orientations in art involving animals; the sections appear in succession and conform to a dramaturgy of sorts. After the focus of the initial topic Open Drawers is on taxonomical classification such as is outstripped by fantasy (Horst Haack) or pursued to the point of mockery (Mark Dion), voices are raised under Profit, Profit, Profit in protest against the subjection of animals in adherence to the laws of the market economy. Following after this critical realism is the optimistic pragmatism of those who, in an exemplary manner, engage in Overcoming Borders Between Species. The final chapter is entitled Living Images and offers philosophical fare: dream, consciousness, artificial intelligence, mimesis, language.

Artists and Collectives in the Exibition 

Ratnadeep Gopal Adivrekar (India) Mia Bencun (Nigeria, Germany) Rolf Bier (Germany) Ali Cherri (Lebanon, France) Mark Dion (USA) Katja Eckert (Germany) Franca Franz (Germany) Gerrit Frohne-Brinkmann (Germany) Andreas Greiner (Germany) Horst Haack (Germany, France) Thomas Hawranke & Lasse Scherffig (Germany) Hörner & Antlfinger, CMUK (Germany) Katharina Immekus (Germany) Sanna Kannisto (Finland) Smita N. Kinkale (India) Lisa Korpos (USA) Basir Mahmood (Pakistan, The Netherlands) NEOZOON (Germany, France) Olly Williams & Suzi Winstanley (United Kingdom) Michael Pendry (Germany, United Kingdom) Arnulf Rainer (Austria) Stephan Reusse (Germany) Harold Rubio (Puerto Rico) Muzzumil Ruheel (Pakistan) Thomas Sturm (Austria,Germany) Miriam Tag (Germany) Diana Thater (USA) Federico Uribe (Columbia, USA) Rajesh P. Wankhade (India)

With support from Kulturfonds Rhein-Main Sparkasse Darmstadt Sparkasse Hessen-Thüringen Entega Stiftung Collaborative Partners HIMS Academy Zoo Vivarium Darmstadt Alte Fasanerie Hanau Darmstädter Textwerkstatt Ehrenamt für Darmstadt Schuldruckzentrum Darmstadt 

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The exhibition Animalia. Forays from Los Angeles to Mumbai at a glance.

Responsible for the contents, planning and realization of the exhibition: Dr. León Krempel, Director of the Kunsthalle Darmstadt, curator in collaboration with Ismail Mukadam, Kurator, HIMS Academy Title and Duration: Animalia. Forays from Los Angeles to Mumbai 10.09.2023 - 07.01.2024

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