Review
Madhavi Swarup
“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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Review
Reflections Through Another State
‘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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Review
Urban Testimonies
‘Urban Testimonies’ was as fresh, puzzling and exhilarating as the metro milieu for which it purports to bear witness.
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Review
Shivani Aggarwal—Inhibiting Threads
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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Review
Weighing the Scale: Size Matters or Does it
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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Column
The Phantom Lady Strikes Again: The Artist and the Archive
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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Column
I Shot the Sheriff: Who is Afraid of Art Criticism Virgins or Wolves?
Recently, while chatting up with a young student from one of the premier institutes in India, to my surprise she informed me that the professors there discourage the students from qualifying their course as ‘Art History and Criticism’. Instead, they call it ‘Arts and Aesthetics’.
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Tribute
Tushar Joag: The Mind Who Launched a Thousand Soul-Searchings
Tushar Joag, whose demise has elicited a soul searching whilst it may be temporary, that few others may inspire, since he propositioned for the self a kind of dissemination in art and society, conflating what is suspected to be mutually limiting, immiscible or even corrosive.
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Tribute
Mehlli Gobhai
Gobhai started drawing under Chavda, and teaching himself to be a thorough draftsman. Gobhai went on to make hundreds of life-studies, something he continued doing throughout his life. He ensured to inculcate the discipline in drawing, as an intrinsic part of his life.
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Realism as a Metaphor: Retrospective of Rajan Krishnan
“Change is permanent. Change is both growth and decay. My present works are sort of painted documents of change”
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