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Digvijay Nikam I’m interested in the type of abstraction where you look out at the world, see the horror—sometimes it is horror—and you drag that horror kicking and screaming into your studio and you wrestle with it and you find something beautiful in it. Mark Bradford Mark Bradford is an American visual artist highly acclaimed […]
The multilayered social abstractionist art of Mark Bradford Read More »
Satarupa Bhattacharya Photography has undergone several changes since the time of its inception when cameras were a luxury item to ‘memorialise’ family members and their achievements. Today, as we advance into a space with technological boons and banes, we’re still grappling with the ‘imaginary possession of the past that is unreal’. The dilemma in the (un)real
Digital Memory-making and Reformulated Sites in Akshita Gandhi’s Art Read More »
Digvijay Nikam What kind of relationship might the distinct mediums of sculpture and photography share? What are the limits of artistic expression? The work of the celebrated and equally censored American photographer Robert Mapplethorpe is the right place to unpack these concerns. Born in 1946 in New York and brought up in a strict Catholic
The Elegant and Provoking Sculptural Photography of Robert Mapplethorpe Read More »
Digvijay Nikam ‘Prolific’ is the word that describes the artistic career of the Indo-Canadian artist Panchal Mansaram, who worked every single day over his decades-long career leading to a huge body of work. Born in India in 1934, Mansaram grew up in Mount Abu, Rajasthan, completed his graduation from the Sir J.J. School of Arts
Repetition as a Way of Finding God: The Modernist Collages of Panchal Mansaram Read More »
Digvijay Nikam What kind of relationship does the work of art bear with the artist’s body? Is the latter only an agent to aesthetic creation where the locus of any transformation is the art work and not the body? The contemporary Indian artist Nikhil Chopra has tried to bridge this chasm by foregrounding the body
Using Time as Material: The genre-bending durational performances of Nikhil Chopra Read More »
Digvijay Nikam To go to the National Gallery of Modern Art in Delhi on a weekend to engage in a contemplative appreciation of intricate paintings and sculptures might be one way of confronting art where the cackle of the street and the concerns of the crumbling everyday life may be kept at bay. One might
Digvijay Nikam Migration – forced and otherwise – of humans and of objects, entangled with the questions of ethnicity and race, is the defining feature of the modern globalized world. “How should art respond to it?” is the question that the diasporic artist Rina Banerjee tries to probe through her work. Born in 1963 in
Make Me a Summary of the World: Rina Banerjee’s carnivalesque sculpture installations Read More »
Tsuktiben Jamir When discussing art, architecture cannot remain in the shadows. One may build without art, but as soon as one wants to do more with it than just fulfil the bare minimal functional requirements, one must incorporate art with architecture. If your art is moving people emotionally with your works, then architecture is capable
It is Essential to be There: An exhibition that celebrates an extraordinary architect Read More »
Tsuktiben Jamir COMO Museum of Art in Lahore, Pakistan is the country’s first ever private museum; it centres around the exhibition and promotion of contemporary and modern art. Their latest solo art exhibition by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto under the title ‘Tomorrow We Inherit the Earth: A Study in Textile’ has been showing from the 28th
Tomorrow We Inherit the Earth: Through Zulfikar Ali Bhutto’s lens Read More »
Digvijay Nikam “What I am interested in is the fact of many hands…when people see work like that, they should be able to feel the presence of those people.” – Anatsui El Anatsui is a Ghanian sculptor who has garnered international acclaim for his ingenious use of everyday discarded materials in his work, especially the
The ‘Spiritual Charge’ of discarded materials in El Anatsui’s sculptures Read More »