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“To choose a human being as a subject comes naturally, and to choose a woman even more naturally because that’s the form I relate to.” – Vasundhara Tewari Broota. Vasundhara Tewari Broota is an Indian painter born in Kolkata in 1955 and moved to New Delhi when she was fifteen. After an initial stint studying law, […]
Agency of the Female Nude Figure: The Empowering Oeuvre of Vasundhara Tewari Broota Read More »
Digvijay Nikam No matter where I was in the world, I would step outside with my paints and materials and paint as if I were touched by a force that gave me an inner realization of the reason for living. There was no one else around. Just the cold wind or warm breeze, the empty
The Captivating Photorealist Paintings of Shibu Natesan Read More »
Manjeera March 10, ON THIS DAY When I feel I’m telling the truth, then there is no restraint. – Bhupen Khakhar Bhupen Khakhar was a radical artist– he was as true to his own self and the process of creativity as one can be. Being the first Indian artist who openly depicted homoerotic and gay
An ode to love and sexuality: Bhupen Khakhar’s vibrant and fearless paintings Read More »
Abhishek Kumar ‘Anyone to whom equality is integral is feminist’ — Sonia Khurana Sonia Khurana is a contemporary Indian artist who works across various mediums including video, photography, performance, and installation. Khurana is regarded as one of the leading contemporary artists in India and her work continues to push boundaries and challenge the status quo.
Khurana’s approach to performance art as a means of social and political transformation Read More »
Continued from Part 1 “Look at people today — how they have become obsessed with their own body. How strange it seems that everyone wants to become body-less without understanding the body, dream of freedom without knowing boundation. It seems that everything is floating in thin air; the journey-nobody wants to embark on that process,
There is nothing straight about Himmat Shah. From his personal life to his art, which keeps meandering into different contours in ways one can not even imagine. One can experience them though, this process of exploring the unknown within him and around and his capacity to reveal some bits. Crossing the threshold of 90
Himmat Shah, Part 1: The poet of clay and ceramics Read More »
By Vinay Seth I met Manmeet Kaur Walia, the curator of the exhibition ‘Masterly Manoeuvring: Lalu Prasad Shaw’, at the show\’s preview on the evening of 20th July. The retrospective is being held by Gallerie Splash, based in Gurugram. Though very busy attending the guests, Manmeet was kind enough to lend me her time and
Abir Pothi explores the seamless ‘everywhereness’ and dreamlike quality of Kerala-based contemporary artist Sosa Joseph Indian contemporary artist Sosa Joseph was born on December 23, 1971, in Parumala, a small village in southern Kerala, where she was raised in a house right by the river. “For us, it all began with the river. It flowed through
Between reality and fantasy: The magic of the mundane on Sosa Joseph\’s canvases Read More »
Abir Pothi in conversation with Rekha Rodwittiya, a contemporary Indian artist associated with the Baroda School, known widely for art that masterfully wields allegory and surrealism. This is part two of the interview. You can read the first one here. You are a mentor to young artists and have been a teacher yourself. How do
‘The imaginative landscape is to think about and bring about the hope of change’ Read More »
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
‘My art is my meal. It is the sustenance of who I am and what I offer to others’ Read More »