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‘My art is my meal. It is the sustenance of who I am and what I offer to others’

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Abir Pothi in conversation with Rekha Rodwittiya, the contemporary Indian artist known for the fascinating magical realism in her art. A maven of metaphor, she also co-runs the The Collective Studio, Baroda. This is part one of the interview. You have an amazing faculty with languages. We find with artists sometimes that they paint because […]

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The beauty and integrity of a work can still be felt digitally. I am awed when I look at old paintings online: Praveen Yaramilli   

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10 questions with the Pothi team: Artist Praveen Yaramilli, who primarily works in the digital format, tells us about his process and life during the pandemic How did you journey in art start? Tell us about your childhood. You are not a formally trained artist.  My journey in art started in school. Ten students were

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I am going totally against what is happening, doing my own thing, otherwise I would go mad: Amit Ambalal

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Veteran artist Amit Ambalal tells the Pothi team how he is coping with the pandemic situation by following his own bliss.  With the pandemic raging all around us, we need to redraw the lines of our lives and figure out how we can continue doing art. Amidst the mayhem, artists have to find a way

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While art events in many contemporary galleries are addressing problems of gender and caste, most of what I see appears to be emulating the West: Pronoy Chakraborty

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The Pothi team speaks to Pronoy Chakraborty, a young curator who the place you show art in helps recontextualise the entire idea  It is said that the old must give way to the new. It isn’t to say that what the past brought before you is not important. In fact, we sit on the shoulders

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The understanding that a curator will pick up my work and put it in a gallery and I will sell my work, is not a formula: Lina Vincent

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Meet curator Lina Vincent. The Pothi team met up with her (over the phone, of course) to talk about her journey and her world of art. If you are in Goa, you probably know that she curates for the Serendipity Arts Festival   Lina Vincent has been an observer of art and a curator since the

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Curation for me is to be the invisible particle allowing the psyche of art/artist to reflect: Jesal Thacker

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Meet Jesal Thacker, an art curator who studied fine arts. She tells the Pothi team why she feels abstract art needs more attention In the arts, especially fine art, the curator is like a guide and a messenger. A curator helps us understand art better. The reason a curator is our guide is for a

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‘Beauty, first. Especially in the worst of times’: Pandemic perspective from across the Atlantic

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American artist Michael diCanio speaks to Pothi from New York about the impact of Covid-19 on local art, and his thoughts on the resilience of the art community and individual artists amid this crisis His art could be described as rife with subtle mythological, fantastical and religious iconography and Symbolism, sometimes arcane, sometimes nearly dystopic,

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‘Disruption, destruction go hand in hand for creation’: Vasudevan Akkitham

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Artist Vasudevan Akkitham weighs in about disruption in the art practice, and whether contemporary art is truly creating a language of its own As a stalwart of Indian art, a celebrated artist and also a teacher of art for many years, Vasudevan Akkitham has a certain clarity of vision when it comes to concepts within

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