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Curated by Santhosh Sadrak and presented as part of Harvest 2024 – 2, “Blue Horizons” opened its doors with a preview on December 19, 2024, at Arushi Arts, Greater Kailash Part-II, New Delhi. This group exhibition, showcasing an impressive lineup of artists, is on view until February 10, 2025, offering an expansive exploration of the […]
In Sparsh Rekha (The Tangent Line), Manish Pushkale presents a series of works that play with notions of the tangible and intangible, the remembered and imagined. Pushkale, known for his meditative abstractions, zeroes in on the “in-between” spaces captured in the exhibition title, one where a straight line touches yet never fully meets a curve.
Where Do Memory and Imagination Intersect in Manish Pushkale’s Sparsh Rekha? Read More »
Art as an indictment of power, politics, and systems of control forms the central thesis of We the (Discarded) People: Welfare or Warfare?, a solo exhibition by Lebanese-American artist Chawky Frenn. Hosted at Bharat Kala Bhavan, Banaras Hindu University, the show stands as both a critique and a call to collective introspection on justice, democracy,
Is Chawky Frenn’s Art a Wake-Up Call to the Global Crisis of Justice and Peace? Read More »
Saroj Prakash Bandi is a visual artist, whose works come forth as still meditations on time, memory and space. Bandi’s painting of the poetry of silence is rooted in a highly personal relationship with the ephemeral and the overlooked. In a poetic dance of abstraction, shadow and texture, the artist beckons us into the quiet
Rishin Zaman, a final-year painting student at the Government College of Fine Arts in Thrissur, Kerala, has become something of a quietly probing artist, whose pieces present private snapshots of the mundane. Descent for beauty is the ordinary: Zaman’s subjects are from his own world of family and neighbours, of quotidian tenderness. His grandmother serves
How Does Rishin Zaman Combine Realism and Emotion in His Figurative Art? Read More »
Shruuti Kapoor is a multidisciplinary artist who journeys through 25 years of artistic pursuit in her work; a practice that is not in a singular box. Shruuti, known for her prowess with black-and-white media, explores the emotional and philosophical aspects of human experience through ink, charcoal, and watercolours. Her abstract works are a meditative study
How Does Shruuti Kapoor Transform Monochrome Into a Language of Emotion? Read More »
What is it that makes a work of art contemporary? It sounds like a simple enough question, but it defies a simple answer. Contemporary art is not just the art of the present, nor is it limited to particular types or styles. It captures the zeitgeist of today while raising questions that are timeless and
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Art history in India remains a rich confluence of traditions and cultures, yet it is marked by systematic exclusions that have erased the contributions of marginalized communities—in particular, Dalits. The history of Indian art has been largely written around temples, miniature paintings, and court art but rarely mentions the artisans from Dalit communities who contributed
Who are Some Pre-Colonial Dalit Painters? Read More »
A nemophilist and an impressionist artist, Suvvro P Basu seamlessly weaves the patience and dynamism of nature in an intricate matrix. Suvvro constructs steps of his artistic path buoyancy across his reverence for nature sweeps up the magnificence of trees and undergrowth while sky might lift him into the dazzling belts of building. Working mostly
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Nishtha Jain’s art practice is grounded in the quotidian yet intimate spaces of life. This resonation comes, in part, from the way her paintings expose simple human presence and relationship in scenes so recognisable. be it a mother performing the balancing act of a lifetime, a group of individuals gathering in common spaces or coming
What Makes Nishtha Jain’s Art Capture Daily Life So Powerfully? Read More »