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I find it impossible to look at anything around me without thinking about the processes behind it – Sheela Gowda Who is Sheela Gowda? Sheela Gowda is a contemporary artist living and working in Bangalore. Born in 1957, Gowda studied painting at Ken School of Art, Bangalore, India (1979) pursued a postgraduate diploma at Visva-Bharati […]
The Process-Oriented Abstract Installations of Sheela Gowda Read More »
What kind of world do we inhabit right now? In the past few years, instances of refugee crisis, border issues and forced relocations have ravaged the lives of countless people making one confront the immensely iniquitous and divided countenance of our societies. Yet, amidst all this, how might solidarities be unearthed, imagined, and built? What
Questioning Boundaries: The Eclectic Artistic Oeuvre of Shilpa Gupta Read More »
“No outer happening can seed inner composition. It must happen to you personally and so my first beginning as an Artist was Partition.” – Satish Gujral, A Brush with Life (2012) In a documentary on a magisterial Indian artist, the narrator Kabir Bedi proclaims in his mighty voice: “The span of his prolific works spans
Symphony of Silence: The Eclectic Oeuvre of Satish Gujral Read More »
“For me, painting and meditation are the same thing. I depict the bliss I achieve while meditating on canvas so that viewers can experience these positive vibrations as well.” – Neeraj Goswami One is always intrigued by the oppositional relationship between the transcendent and the everyday. One prominent understanding of mysticism alerts us that meditation
Neeraj Goswami and the Geometricity of Transcendence Read More »
How do we discover and lay claim to that which is our own? Why do we often come to appreciate the familiar only through the eyes of the other? When the artist Sakti Burman and his French wife Maite Delteil came to India in 1964-65 and visited Konark, Khajuraho, Ajanta, Ellora and Elephanta, both were
There is a search for the unknown which, I think, has always found expression in my works. – Jeram Patel A few weeks ago, I came across a painting that stood out amidst a gallery exhibiting Indian modernist paintings. This work drew my attention as it swapped a regular canvas with a wooden board.
Fluid Forms and Cauterized Surfaces: The Boldness of Jeram Patel Read More »
What is the relationship of the artist to the society? Should the work of art devote itself to the service of a greater good or should be allowed to have an autonomy of its own, as proclaimed in the popular dictum l’art pour l’art (art for art’s sake)? What are the modalities of communication between
Art at the Service of Humanity: The Exemplary Career of Prof. V Nagdas Read More »
There is only one attribute that describes the entire being of this artist – positiveness. Janarthanan Kesavan was born on this day 19 September 1991 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, the southernmost state of India. On the evening of 4 March 2000, the eight-year-old Jana (as he is popularly known), while playing with his friends on
The Extraordinary Life of the Mouth Painter Janarthanan Kesavan Read More »
When we think of the quirky and unforgettable characters of Charles Dickens and their hold over British readerly imagination in the 19th century, we wholeheartedly pay tribute – and rightly so – to the impeccable writing skill of Dickens as an author but what we often fail to acknowledge is the role of illustrators like
Namboothiri: Kerala’s Master Illustrator, Cartoonist and A People’s Artist Read More »
When we think of portraying traumatic events of history through painting, we often wish to communicate it using a visually unsettling image that draws the viewer and does – to whatever degree possible – artistic justice to the event. Beauty, one presumes, bears no immediate relationship to the appalling. For the renowned Indian artist Arpana