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Review

The Propitious Garden of Rekha Rodwittiya

By Indrapramit Roy

“We are meant to survive… beyond our stories " was a selected overview which showcased the Godrej collection of Rekha Rodwittiya’ work of four decades. After completing her Bachelor studies from Baroda she was the first recipient in the field of fine arts of the prestigious Inlaks scholarship to study at the Royal College of Art, London. Upon her return to India Rekha claimed a space for her unequivocally feminist ideology and established herself as an important and powerful voice that questioned the status quo of the art establishment and carved a niche for herself in less than a decade from the start of her career in 1985. “We are meant to survive…” covered the whole gamut of her oeuvre from her student days in Baroda and RCA to her latest offerings from the 2020s. One might be tempted to call the show a mini retrospective although not designated as such officially.

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Pratul Dash creates an archaeology of the land and the mind

By Avantika Bhuyan

The recent body of work, which was displayed in the solo ‘A Bend in the River’, stands as a testament to Pratul Dash’s ongoing effort to draw connections between ecology and the human mind. Pratul Dash’s works read like manuscripts. Every part of the canvas tells you its own story, only to come together in one cohesive narrative when viewed as a whole. You keep coming back to the works, even the smaller ones, to discover something new that the artist is trying to tell you. What is the truth?

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THE REBEL AND THE RECLUSE: GOBARDHAN ASH (1929-1969)

By Epsita Halder

Navigating through the gallery space of the Kolkata Centre for Creativity (KCC), Kolkata, was overwhelming for visitors as around 100 odd artworks of Gobardhan Ash (1907-1996) emerged slowly as visceral experiences around them. The Gobardhan Ash Retrospective Exhibition (1929-1969), archived and documented by Princeps, curated by Brijeswari Kumari Gohil and Harsharan Baksh and housed by the KCC, displayed Ash’s artworks that came out of the most creative four decades of the artist’s life. The artworks were supported by a well-organised timeline (across an entire wall) to help the viewer understand Ash’s growth as an art practitioner as he journeyed across forms, locales and institutions.

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A Primordial Roar

By Zahra Jewanjee

‘Can You Hear Me?’ is a triggered, and triggering, response to a shocking incident of recent history. It drives Nalini Malani’s narrative into an animation where the central protagonist is an 8-year-old girl, whose soul eventually metamorphoses into that of a bird. The show is composed of a sprawling nine- channel video installation, featuring over 88 iPad- drawn animations created between 2018 and 2020, reorganized into a form of an ‘Animation Chamber’. It refers to this poor child’s violent assault and eventual murder by seven men, inflaming already stretched age-old religious tensions and sparking a debate on communal hatred that became a national and international news story, that unfortunately continues to gain notoriety due to shockingly similar and regular reoccurrences. The imagery is loose, and the text is interlaced and juxtaposed, its treatment is playful yet compelling, hiding its dissolute and bleak reality in light-hearted colour changes and buoyant edits.

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Indigenous

"Engaging with Indigenous worldviews requires the acknowledgement of three interconnected, and ongoing temporalities: ancestrality, coloniality and the experience of the contemporary life. At the centre of this triad lies the notion of ancestrality, a beating heart of Indigenous understanding of sovereignty. As the Geonpul scholar Moreton Robinson explains in the above-mentioned quotation, ancestrality is a key element shared across the Indigenous experience because it encompasses a space of intersubstantiation (between humans, ancestors, the land, and nonhuman entities) that defines their existence." Katya García-Antón, Guest Editor, TAKE Indigenous

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Inside Indigenous

Memory as a Method: Textures of Anticolonial Legacy in Birsa Munda Rebellion

We Talk, You Listen

Venkat Raman Singh Shyam (Gond) Santosh Das (Mithila) Tushar & Mayur Vayeda (Warli) Bhuri Bai (Bhil) Jodhaiya Bai (Baiga)

Evolving Knowledge Systems

Reframing Indigenous Art: Voices of Resistance and Fugitive Aesthetics

The Head is a Streaming Pitcher: Rupture, Reclamation and Reinvention of Adivasi Knowledge

Bringing Traditional Artists to the Book

The Sovereign Forest, a collaboration with Sudhir Pattnaik and Sherna Dastur

Sueño de obsidiana (Obsidian Dream)

Exhibition Making and the Question of What Lies Beyond

Decolonization and Art in Bolivia: La Casa Grande del Pueblo (The Big House of the People)

To Be Discriminated Against or Not? Indigenous Drinking Coincides with Dispossession in Health

The Uncomfortable Museum

Ocean and Canoe

Tamba: reflections on revolution and rebirth

Women’s Knowledge in the Art from Indonesia Indigenous Artists

Janjatiya Sangrahalaya: A Paradigm Shift in Museum Curation and Ethnographic Representation

Tracing the Evolution of Banaras and the Role of its Diverse Communities

Gulistan

Himmat Shah Retrospective

The Elemental You

Dhavat and His Jungle

The Posthuman in Heaven (And That Other Place)

Histories Loved and Tempered: What the Nilima Sheikh Archives reveal

When Indian Flowers Bloomed in Distant Lands

From the Ghor to the Gallery: Liberating the Feminine Realm in Indian Art

Ephemeral Visages

Women, Modernism, and Resistance: Reminiscing

Black Noise

The Horizon in Between: Bridging Indian Art and Politics

Belinder Dhanoa: Kasauli Art Centre 1976 - 1991

Art as a Winding River: The Bengal Biennale through Cross-Currents

Latika Katt

Echoes of Fur

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Art of the Kingdom: Poetic Illumination – To Reclaim and Resurge Cultural History

By Dilpreet Bhullar

Without losing sight on a fine balance between a tactile approach of tangible art and an aesthetic of moving images in video arts, Wechsler remaps the routes of cultural history and identity in its tangible form. In other words, through immersive installations, multimedia storytelling and archival interventions, the exhibition challenges viewers to reimagine cultural history not as a static relic, but a site of perpetual reinterpretation. In weaving together the threads of identity and belonging, within the curatorial lens of memory Art of the Kingdom: Poetic Illumination emerges as a reflective site of cultural reclamation and epistemic resurgence.

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Amplifying Artist-Philanthropists: Ravi Agarwal’s Ecology of Sharing

By TAKE on art

TAKE Philanthropy explores the evolving landscape of art philanthropy within a globalized context, highlighting its influence on artistic innovation, cultural diplomacy, and community development. In showcasing the country’s most impactful philanthropists, it is essential to amplify the voices of Artist-Philanthropists, who are making remarkable contributions to the art world. We feature Founder Trustee and initiator of the Shyama Foundation, artist Ravi Agarwal.

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Revitalise Visual Arts in Chennai: Jaiveer Johal’s take on Avtar Foundation for the Arts

By Jaiveer Johal

We have had a long history of patronage – from the royal princes and now merchant princes. This needs to be encouraged – the government can participate to make: import of artworks easier, and even make public spaces more accessible to private organisations who want to hold shows and events in such places. JNAF and CSMVS is a great example of how things can happen. Chennai Photo Biennale of which I am a patron is being allowed access to the Egmore Museum. If the ASI and the Ministry of Culture brings out a policy on how we can have better and more equitable access to these buildings and areas – it will help the entire art ecosystem.

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Essay

Philanthropy: Every Idea is a Seed in Time

By Feroze Gujral

Hope, funding, a dignity of livelihood and mentorship are core values for me and The Gujral Foundation, where we support the growth of intent and the future of ideas. My happy quotient lies in the expansion of giving and watching these idea seeds grow into much larger projects and careers. For instance, ‘Artdemic’: It was a project that began during the pandemic with a very small open call to fund young artists. We started with two to three micro grants per week and three years in, we continue to fund artists every month and are now looking to establish Artdemic as a much larger platform that really nourishes young artists’ futures in a very competitive and fast-growing art world. 

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A Life in Art

By Mortimer Chatterjee

The inherent internationalism with which Godrej imbued Cymroza insured its cultural relevance and allowed for young artistic talent to gain attention. Over time, she built up an impressive roster of artists who would exhibit regularly at the gallery: artists such as Rekha Rodwittya, Madhvi Subramanian, KG Subramanyan, Jai Zharotia, Haku Shah, Arpana Caur, and Akbar Padamsee. As Godrej makes clear, “we also paid attention that all this work was documented through our annual catalogues that encouraged contributions from art critics as well as art historians, that were then distributed to a wide community of visitors, collectors and art admirers.” Beyond the visual arts, she was equally committed to design practices, foregrounding crafts techniques from around the country.

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Representing Geographical and Cultural Diversity in the large-scale International Exhibitions

 17th April 2025
HUNA LOUNGE, Art Dubai

Art Writers’ Award 2024

 14 April–14 June 2025
Villa Sträuli, Winterthur, Switzerland

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 October 23, 2024
The Quorum, Gurgaon

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 12th April 2024
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Unique, limited editioned and handcrafted affordable artworks by eminent artists exclusively commissioned for TAKE on Art.

G R Iranna

The Story Which You Have Written, Bronze, 5 x 11 x 4 inches, The Story Which You Have Written by G R Iranna, 2023

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Ashiesh Shah

Lingam Lamp, Sculpture Cast aluminium, toggle switch cast in aluminium, Edition of 25, 10 x 7.25 x 14 inches, Lingam Lamp by Ashiesh Shah, 2020

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Ganesh Haloi

Untitled , Hand–painting on Papier Mache, 11 x 9.5 x 1.5 inches, Hand-painted book object by Ganesh Haloi, 2021

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Mithu Sen

Uncalendar Unever, Mixed media work with embossed print, hand and pin drawing on paper, Series of 100, each one is unique and signed, 17 x 20 inches, Uncalendar Unever by Mithu Sen, 2023

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Rekha Rodwittiya

My Bonsai Tiger, Stainless Steel, 264.4 mm x 306.6 mm x 1.5 mm, Limited edition of 35 , My Bonsai Tiger by Rekha Rodwittiya, 2022

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Shilpa Gupta

Untitled, Mirror Acrylic, Limited edition of of 50, 13 x 9.2 inches, Untitled by Shilpa Gupta, 2022

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Gulam Mohammed Sheikh

Talisman (Twin-1), Digital collage printed on rice paper (100 GSM), with wooden boxes for encasing Limited edition of 10, each numbered and signed, 9 x 9.4 cm (h x w), length of spread out 514.5 cm, the attached wooden support covers 2 cm, outer box: 10.4 x 12.4 x 6 cm (h x w x d), A digital collage accordion format book named ‘Talisman’, Second edition, 2022

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Vibha Galhotra

Re[construction], Brass ghungroos (trinkets) and steel, 14x 8 x 8 inches, A series of unique sculptures made of brass ghungroos (trinkets) and steel by Vibha Galhotra, 2022

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Ayesha Singh

Skewed Histories: Amalgamation as sculpture (1), Biodegradable polylactic acid, Limited edition of 10, 21 x 16 x 12 inches, Editioned sculptures made of biodegradable polylactic acid by Ayesha Singh, 2022

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Dhruvi Acharya

Drop, Unbleached cotton painted with acrylic paints, aluminium wire, Limited series of 35, 6 x 3 inches approx., wire: 38 inches approx., outer acrylic box: 6.5 x 6.5 x 8.75 inches, A series of soft fabric sculptures by Dhruvi Acharya, 2022

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Jayasri Burman

Untitled, Paper mache and acrylic paint Hand-painted Unique Book , 11 x 11 x 2 inches, Untitled, 2016

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Jagannath Panda

Table Lamp, Mixed Media Unique Series of 12, 20 inches (lamp shade 7 x 12 inches, stand: 12 x 9 inches), Table Lamp, 2011

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George Martin PJ

Painted Palettes, Acrylic on palette (MFD board) Series of 10, , Painted Palettes, 2012

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Dayanita Singh

Museum Bhavan, Nine individual ‘museums’ in book form in a handmade box , 3.7 x 5.5 inches , Museum Bhavan, 2017

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Chittrovanu Mazumdar

Untitled, Etching on copper and carved mahogany wood Edition of 50, 12 x 10 inches, Untitled, 2009

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Bose Krishnamachari

Stretched Body Series, Watercolour on arches paper-pulp book cast sculpture Hand-painted Unique Book , 11 x 9.5 x 1.5 inches, Stretched Body Series, 2014

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Anupam Sud

Untitled, Collage, watercolour, graphite on paper mache Hand-painted Unique Book, 11 x 9.5 x 1.5 inches, Untitled, 2014

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Anupam Sud

Untitled , Collage, watercolour, graphite on paper mache Hand-painted Unique Book , 11 x 9.5 x 1.5 inches, Untitled , 2014

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Ravinder Reddy

Torso, Hand gilded on polyester resin fiber Exclusive Edition of 30, 9 inches, Torso by G. Ravinder Reddy, 2017-2018

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Raqs Media Collective

Two Thousand Three Hundred Grams of What?, Acrylic and decoup acrylic Limited Edition of 50, 11.5 x 8.7 x 1.5 inches, Two Thousand Three Hundred Grams of What? by Raqs Media Collective, 2013

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Pushpamala N

The Popular Series, Native Women of South India: Manners and Customs, Giclee Print, 5.5 x 8 inches each, The Popular Series, Native Women of South India: Manners and Customs by Pushpamala N and Clare Arni, 2000-2004

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Shilpa Gupta

I Never Promised You A Rose Garden, Single book in metal Editions of 50, 8.6 x 5.9 x 1.1 inches, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Shilpa Gupta, 2011

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Atul Dodiya

The Book of Sand – II, Watercolour and marble dust on arches paper-pulp book cast sculpture Hand-painted Unique Book, 11 x 9.5 x 1.5 inches, The Book of Sand Series by Atul Dodiya, 2016

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Atul Dodiya

The Book of Sand – I, Watercolour and marble dust on arches paper-pulp book cast sculpture Hand-painted Unique Book, 11 x 9.5 x 1.5 inches, The Book of Sand Series by Atul Dodiya, 2016

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Manjunath Kamath

Pink elephant in bathtub, Digital print on archival paper Edition of 50, 5 x 7 inches, Pink Anubhav Highres by Manjunath Kamath, 2011

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Prajjwal Choudhury

Matchbox, Digitally printed matchboxes, 15 x 15 inches , Series of unique pieces signed by the artist , 2018

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Pooja Iranna

Forbidden Stories, Paper Mache and acrylic paint on arches paper-pulp book cast sculpture Hand-painted Unique Book , 11 x 11 x 2 inches, Series of unique pieces signed by the artist , 2016

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Mithu Sen

Anti-clock, Mixed media (water colour on hand-made sheet, velvet etc.), Sizes vary, Series of unique pieces signed by the artist , 2011

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Arun Kumar HG

Tract, Visual book with 100 images, 1200 gsm, natural evolution hard bound Limited Editions of 100, 12 x 17 inches, A photo book that encapsulates the collapse of ecological terrain to advance the multitude of urban life.,

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