In Neha Choksi’s new show death is sometimes cute, sometimes beautiful, and occasionally melancholy but never the stuff of Gothic horror. For Choksi, the burial ground is a starting point for her exploration of forms and reality, rather than an excuse to sink into nostalgia.
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Amrita Shergil: Beautiful, bohemian, iconic, cross cultural; the subject of countless stories, articles, monographs; target of much innuendo, gossip by innumerable shyster bandwagoneers eager to establish their pathetic reputations as rakes/ loverboys.
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Gopikrishna’s paintings are examples of intricate technique and carefully formed compositions. Specific characters with specific stories come together in his works to form complex narratives and allegories that articulate wisdom and humour.
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Mithu Sen’s recent mise en scène at Chemould Art Gallery, Mumbai, comprises of provocative, bizarre snippets of the audio, hyperactive texts fused with multifaceted images and sarcastic titles.
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“My real education began when the celebrated photographer S. Paul took me under his wings,” says Madhavi Swarup, who had, in fact bagged the best student award for photography at NIFT, Delhi.
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‘Resemble Reassemble’ presents facets of life peculiar to Pakistan. While the artworks are indicative of global influences in terms of the media and a visual language that is used world-wide, the artists do not engage with global issues, being more involved with those of immediate concern.
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‘Urban Testimonies’ was as fresh, puzzling and exhilarating as the metro milieu for which it purports to bear witness.
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The painted photographs in off white, greys and whites with minimal use of red are neither comforting nor alienating. In fact the problem is that they do not engage you for their own sake but in their apparent incompleteness compel you question.
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Size in itself does not count for anything, but in relation to something it can pose a problem, be the solution or become a symbol of appreciation or disdain. Gallery Latitude 28 initiates this debate via their inaugural exhibition in Lado Sarai: ‘Size Matters or Does it?
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Artists are like scavengers who use various kinds of references in their work, thereby creating their own archive out of disparate materials.
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