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‘A Mythical Universe’: A Mid-career Retrospective of Jayasri Burman
The first time I encountered at one of JayasriBurman’s paintings, I thought I knew her. Not the artist herself, but the woman in the work.
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Careless Interplay of Thread and Words
Rakhi Peswani’s show at Vadehra Art Gallery does not seduce with lushness of fabric or embroidery, on the contrary, she presents an unusual perspective of sewing.
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Manisha Parekh’s ‘Spinning Secrets’
Manisha Parekh’s latest show, ‘Spinning Secrets’ at Nature Morte (September 11thto October 16th, 2009) continues to integrate and expand on the ideas and visual imagery that the artist has made her own over the years.
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‘Lo Real Maravilloso-Marvelous Reality’
The first thing Federico Fellini did on waking was to write down his dream, before it evaporated into irretrievable memory: his psychoanalyst had asked him to do so.
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Baptist Coelho’s ‘I think of my brother’s only one child named Deepthi’
A sunlit room – black paper airplanes overpower the colours that surround a young girl. A snowed out landscape – a soldier flies black paper airplanes in vain. A jar of air and stones – stands audience to the two terrains.
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Architecture as a Façade – Reviewing Pooja Iranna’s show at The Guild, 2009
No doubt PoojaIranna’s paintings, photography and sculptural installations deploy architectural monumentality or the details of architecture, yet it would be difficult to say that her preoccupation is with the history of architectural studies, urbanism and/or alienation.
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